Lots of misrepresenting the truth by upper management in our division... no paid training ... you can sell under someone else’s license... not the same.
If you can go without pay for more than a month or two or three, then this is the place for you. I worked there for a year.
(My savings were eaten up.)
They are SO POSITIVE, you don’t want to look at the reality of your situation. You want to believe what they are saying is true, but then when you see with your eyes that actions don’t match up with their words... and somehow, it’s your fault for pointing this out... ick. It’s a tactic of narcissist to shift blame.
I don’t know how I stayed for so long.
But that seems to be the case at a lot of insurance agencies, they lure you with stories on how much money you can make, but it never seems to come quickly, which is why many sales agents secretly hurt financially.
You’re a 1099, but treated like an employee and punished if you don’t do what the managers tell you to do. I’m not sure how the insurance industry can get away with having such a large contracted labor workforce. It seems wrong.
After awhile, I stopped learning the names of new agents because they didn’t last long. It was sad.
There are more stories than I can share here, but in the end, I had to leave.
Because you’re 1099, there’s no Human Resource office to help. You can go to your supervisors, but if they are the ones your having problems with... you’re stuck.
They encourage you to take advances, but when you walk away, you have to pay all of those back and you cannot contact your clients for a year. After all of your work, developing relationships, you have start from scratch.
Worth it to walk away from such a stressful place. I have spoken with a lot of ex-USHA agents and we have had to recover emotionally from the trauma we experienced there.
This was a difficult decision to write this review and I waited two years before I did.
It’s been hard for a lot of us who have had to leave the company... we’ll talk about in private because it was such a humiliating experience.
(Like I said, there are so many stories, but I cannot share here without violating the terms of service.)
I’m glad to have moved on. I’m writing this because I hope it will make a difference.
I hope things will change.
I hope no one will ever have to go through what my other ex agents or I went through.
