If You Like To Be Micro Managed and Written Up Continuously, This is The Place For You! - Sales Scholastic Employee Review

1.0
May 16, 2012
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Pros

Health care benefits, 401 K People you work with (not work for!) Approximately 42 weeks/year work schedule

Cons

This place is micromanaged from Lake Mary! None of these sales managers have EVER booked a fair or worked directly with schools. The managers are completely unhelpful and refuse to step in if there are problems with accounts. Sales are supposed to "fix it" on their own. Expectations and goals are completely unrealistic and unattainable. Our commissions are going away, and nobody has addressed that issue yet! Sales have to do the work of routing, collecting on accounts (if you want to get paid!) and booking fairs. Recently in our region, our capacity has decreased and we no longer have enough fairs pull from for booking, but we are still supposed to make our goals....Really?!? Sales is the backbone of any organization and if sales are not supported, then the company will suffer (and employees too).

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