Pros
great benefits. fun to work with customers. fast paced. unlimited income potential for self-motivated people.
Cons
local managers sometimes waste reps time doing things that look good on paper but in reality are demotivating, demoralizing and costly in terms of valuable selling time (i think they forget (or dont care) that we work on commission). when things dont go as well as upper management expects, usually due to local mgrs poorly thought out plan, they do stuff like Call Night (unproductive! i dont need to come into the office to cold call along with 20 other reps from 4:30-5:30 c'mon, its 5pm i'm tired...i've been selling all day, and now I get to sit in rush hour traffic and get home even later and then do my paperwork for the day...can you say monster.com) Or come in at the end of the day to discuss collections with your manager...come in???? cant we call in during our drive time...hello, i'm not 13!!!!!!!!!!!