Managers being selected as managers with no prior experience
Worst role I have ever been in
15 years experience and being told by a newly promoted manager that worked at McDonald's that I cannot sell.
Basically you have to work twice as hard if you do not drink the Kool-Aid. When you do hit those numbers you are harassed about not being in an optional zoom on a flex schedule.
Lowest pay I have ever made in sales, Manager's have book club meetings and do not know anything about Sales (some, not all).
If you have any kind of management experience while applying for this company you will be made to feel like an outcast when you make fun of the quality of leads.
Recycled contractor leads (i.e. No social, failed background checks, etc) and quite possibly the dumbest meetings one would ever have to sit in. Had to sit in a meeting about email signatures (not all knew how to add the feature on gmail, meeting took an hour)
HR? Please, let's not go there. Managers have dozens of complaints before they are taken seriously, giving someone that sold $49 dollar memberships during COVID the power to be a manager with no education or prior leadership experience is this company's downfall. People on the team have titles, which are again laughable. A "Senior Account Executive" can take a day off during the week and work overtime to hit their hours. They can also work 5 hours a day and be told they have to hit talk time and no action or consequence ever happen to them.
Having an hour long zoom meeting to play childish games is beyond weird. If you are a professional that sees logic in things please do not work here. When someone that dropped out of high school is selling more than you and you sense things aren't above board then you will hear constant "pick-me-up" speeches.
When I was let go for my displeasure with my manager I was making well over 11,000 a month so money wasn't an issue. I just could not tolerate it anymore. HR is just there to protect a manager that does not know what they are doing. My advice to anyone that wants to consider a career in sales, do not apply here.
This is one of the few companies that still employs the "Start from the Bottom" approach which is beyond demeaning. If you do decide to work here I promise this is not a comedy show, but you will think it is. I never laughed so hard. It is like they get a pot of good leads and whoever they feel sorry for gets the good ones. One week I sold 6 without even following a script. They next week was 0 and had to read from the script. LOL!!!
Annoying someone that cannot afford something is not sales and when there is a complaint made against you the manager goes and runs behind a director....speaking of which....
I have worked in Sales Management for a long, long time. Each role I was ever in I have never heard of a "Sales Director". There are General Managers, District Managers, General Sales Managers, etc. Never have I heard of a "Sales Director". Basically, all they do is hold a weekly meeting titled "The Director Huddle". Which is an hour (now down to a half-hour because many people complained how weird it was.) of sharing worthless stories, demeaning stories, spotlighting and making people uncomfortable. To me, as a current leader now, these are the most worthless positions in the company. Basically what they are is someone who has stayed here long enough and played the game to just sit there and make money off of people's sales. They don't call admin to try and push an approval through for you, managers don't do that either. Paying someone 200 plus grand a year to do nothing is demeaning to professionals that have earned it in their careers. They are basically puppets with no real value and then when they get terminated here they have no career prospects.
The bonuses from management are a joke, too. "Get a hat-trick today and get a $25 dollar gift card to Dollar General!". I mean my bonuses are ten, sometimes fifteen thousand in a month, bad stretches are 6 months. A joke. Stay away if you want to keep your sanity.
Never being able to walk around your house for a remote position is beyond hysterical especially with the 1990s base-pay scale. Let's play FOOD TRIVIA!
