- Company only gives you only $25.00/day to spend for 3 meals when traveling - which means having to struggle to even get 3 meals at the cheapest of fast food restaurants...so they don't want you to have any degree of comfort while traveling. This is not how decent and respectable companies treat their employees.
- You have to work in the freezing cold, rain, sleet...you also have to enter yards where you could get attacked by aggressive dogs (and yes, it does happen).... you potentially have to go into bad neighborhoods at night where things like drug dealing and violent crime are common...travel to rural areas by yourself where anything can happen....go into homes of dangerous people (felons, sexual predators, drug addicts, etc).
- Be micromanaged...management openly shares with you that you are being tracked all day via GPS, you have to enter every visit and all your time on your phone and into your computer while also providing management a map of everywhere you are going every day, plus provide them a schedule of your day-to-day activities.
- not a week goes by where equipment or software is not working and it is corrosive - demoralizes sales team.
- can take up to 1.5 hours or more in setting up each tv to be part of the ratings. so a home with 6 tv could take up to 6 hours or more - trust me, it gets extremely uncomfortable and families get frustrated right off the bat.
- you have to sell two families per week on participating, plus fix numerous homes every week where the equipment is not working or has been unplugged. The company wants you to be doing something every second of every day
- You find your whole week being consumed by this job as youll work nights, weekends, days, etc.
- Meetings overload....every week youll be in a variety of conference calls that fall within the middle of your day usually
- management is garbage...the people running the sales operations never sold anything in their life (bean counters...its like having a sales person who never took any accounting classes or roles serve as your CFO...a) a lot of managers, directors and senior managers don't have a 4 year college degree
-completely disorganized....reps had to organize their own rental cars when starting, had to figure out what their own health benefits were...not at all a buttoned up organization.
---ALL OF THIS FOR CLOSE TO MINIMUM WAGE, MOST PEOPLE HAVE SECOND JOBS JUST TO SURVIVE
