Beware!!!!! - Anonymous VIRTUAL GAL FRIDAY Employee Review

Many many pros, but only if you are suited to this type of work. This job is flexible and EASY to get started. Great training materials, and great managers. Everyone wants you to succeed, and will check in on you. Great coworkers and clients. This job is minimum wage BUT you are able to work from home and do other things while waiting for work to come in! It is the perfect job for the working mother or homebody who enjoys computer and assistant work.

The ONLY con is how slow it is to start out. These clients are important so VGF mgmt wants to make sure you are trained and ready to handle their patients. Which is totally understandable. People seem to think it's a con that you only get paid "when you work", but that is a pro. You can have 10 clients if you want and work 40 hours a week.. OR you can have 2 clients and work 10 hours a week and also do other things with your days. There are NO CONS if you actually understand what a contract based job is.

It’s hard to say. I was only there for a week and I thought people were nice, but it turns out that all of the negative reviews are true.

They are the cons. After interviewing for this job and then accepting it, I read the Glassdoor reviews and became extremely hesitant, but decided that there are a lot of folks out there who are jaded by personal conflicts within the workplace. Knowing my work ethic, I decided to move forward and even though I had an upcoming surgery that prompted the delay of my start I still reached back out after surgery and wanted to pursue a relationship with them. This was my first contract job. I was totally OK with what their plans were when it comes to getting paid for work you actually do. I was quite put off by the amount of training I was expected to do on my own time and not get paid for, but they still agreed to pay me for a couple hours here and there to train myself on pretty much everything besides the majority of training, which consists of the owners daughter training you how to clock your time. This is the on board training that you only get paid for if you survive three months. This is time I’ll never get back and I have come to terms with that. Here comes the part that will sound redundant as it’s similar to other VGF reviews on all platforms. Without any notice whatsoever, all of my access is cut off after less than five days of work with them. When I say “work”, this is me being at my desk training myself, meeting with them when requested which was maybe three times during that week (keep in mind I was a brand new hire) and doing a couple minutes here and there trying to work and actually make money. The day before I was terminated I reread these company reviews and suddenly started having that gut feeling I get when I have made a bad decision. It proved to be a feeling that was deserved. After my access suddenly gets cut off on my fifth day of employment, with false hope that my fears were not suddenly realized, I send them an email letting them know what happened but immediately received back an email thanking me for my time and that I was terminated. The email also stated I would get paid for any money owed on May 20. I did send an email back asking what I could’ve done differently or if there was anything specific that I could use as a learning tool for growth. They blocked my email after that. I learned this because they never paid me for the five days I was there. No paycheck in the mail, no direct deposit even after I gave them my direct deposit info for the second time on the Friday I was terminated. I’m not sure why they would’ve requested it from me if they planned on firing me anyways… but I digress. To continue, I learned that my email was blocked because today June 9. I finally reached out to them to let them know I never received a paycheck and the email would not go through. No worries. I sent it from a secondary email address and copied my lawyer in case I need to go to small claims court. It would be worth it to me to go that route as this “business” should not continue to get away with what they are doing to hard-working people.