- Long uncompensated hours
- Extensive time wasted in meetings, conference calls, etc that could be utilized in productive activity (at least 15-20 hours/wk)
- Complex metrics that set a rep up for failure
- Corporate politics and favoritism
- No response from corporate for ethical issues by a team member that should have required severe consequences
- Being cut off from company leads without notification
- Being asked to attend meeting and phone conferences outside of normal business hours
- Being expected/required to work 6 days a week, 70-90 hours per week without compensation of a base salary
- Having cancelled appointments that you never even contacted or visited count against your closing percentage
- Having existing clients that dont even count towards your metrics - sometimes totaling 30-40% of your monthly revenue target
- Having cancellations show up on your next month's metrics
- Allowing team members to threaten and bully co-workers without ramifications
- Horrible mis-mangement by highly uneducated personnel
- Excessive and harassing micro-management on a daily, sometimes hourly basis
- Manager's manager doesn't want to be bothered with any concerns
- HR is unresponsive and also betrayed confidentiality
- Manager had 13 people quit in a 12 month period and is still employed
- No opportunities to move up in the organization or to even transfer to another channel despite extensive education and experience