Russell Cellular reviews

As a DSM, I seen the good, bad and the UGLY! They pay 7:50 for reps and 8.50 for STORE MANAG ERS! It as a joke and only the desperate applied., We were expected to make miracles happen. TLR is a joke only to ensure they had your leads after the few months of your employment before they let you go. You had to cold call and do ALL of the advertising yourself. Before my departure, let go after running 2 districts, going above and beyond, always working late, giving it my 100% because I thought I was valued right after I received a raise and another store, was let go for BULL reasons that 3/4 of the DSM's dealt with, low numbers because of the companies lack of effort, time and money invested into their small locations. If it is a 2 rep store..... run away! You will not make any money and the only reason the doors are open is due to keeping their national account with Verizon. They will not have any loyalty to you, point blank period. Value, Opportunity, Teamwork...... not going to happen! Jeff Russell, your company is a joke. You let people go that truly care about your comany and for what? To get someone in that persons place that is running the district RIGHT INTO THE GROUND with no experience in the cellphone buisness at all. I hope you look ayt these reviews, because I don't see how you can sleep at night knowing that your company is so crappy that you don't have any good reviews on here, Your indirect account managers HATE dealing with your stores because of your lack of efforts. Verizon thinks of you as a joke. Oh and I just loved the way that every year you found new ways to lower the commission structure. NICE. .

Benefits: If you have a family with children, you can expect to pay about 900.00 per month, and at the starting rate of 7.50 per hour that will basically take your whole paycheck for a month and leave you with only you commission to live on, and if youre a good sales person at a decent location, you can expect about 600.00 per month in commission. The hourly pay is way below that industry standard and is great for a single person with no children or a family to support, but not a realistic job to raise a family on salary wise. My District Manager was spread this because of the vast territory that she had, would sometimes only see her once every two weeks even though she only manages a 5 store district. Store Manager had no authority to hire, fire...he did his best to coach me but was really just a very good sales person and not a great leader. You lose commission if your customer cancels service or does not pay their bill for 6 months after the sale. I felt my job as a sales person was to sell the phone or the product. I was not hired to make sure people paid their bill, however, this is an industry standard. Cold Calling everyday to prospect new customers or get old customers back in the door. You are expected to cold call 20-25 people per day to recruit business, you are also expected to use your own vehicle to drive to the bank off the clock to make your nightly deposit as well as drop off flyers for sales at grocery stores, parking lots ect and you are still held accountable to meeting monthly metrics, which depending on your store location (I was in a store in a town of 2,200) it can be challenging. I felt like at times I was begging the person to be my customer. If you are in a 2 rep store, you can expect o have a (working lunch) once a week....somehow I think this is against labor law but who really knows. Lack of support in marketing the business from Corporate, their theory is that YOU are the walking billboard and YOU are the radio and TV commercials...by this I mean that you are expected to pull out a phone book and make calls to advertise your business....There is not much of a marketng or event budget, we had to buy our own helium to put up balloons because corporate wouldnt allow us to take money out of the cash drawer.