Managers tend to be micromanagers, overwhelming amounts of paperwork both for doing business as well as doing reports, activity logs, etc. Joke in my office was ADT = Another Dead Tree. They'll hire any one with a pulse and a car, training is negligible, and management is in constant rotation. At one point my manager changed 8 times in 10 months. In 5 years, It's a 100% commission job, so no sales = no paycheck. I had 5 different pay plans, and with each change, it got progressively worse for sales people. No sick pay, vacation pay when I was there was $35/day. So if I sell 5 units in a week at the end of the month, I could make $1000-$1500, but if I go on vacation that week instead, I get $175. Opportunity for advancement is slim, and if you do advance, your reward is basically more hours, almost all stuck behind a desk, for less money than you made when you were selling. It's a shame when at a company the size of ADT, you can be a top 5 sales person in a region (top 100 in the entire country) and not be earning 6 figures. Keep in mind my information is based on my time there, which ended in 2009. Things may have changed since then. But based on talking to the people I still know there, they haven't changed much.
