Pros
- Amazing people. I've been out of the company for over a year and I still talk and hang out with the people from my time there. - The all company meetings are a lot of fun! But I also enjoy the drinking culture, which, if you don't, the meetings may not be fun. It is a good excuse to get a nice outfit twice a year though for the formal nights. - Amazing clients. The rapport and relationships you build with the good ones are worth it. Most of them texted me after I quit to wish me well. - A lot of opportunities for travel, between training at their headquarters and the national meetings, it's a fun reason to get out of your home city.
Cons
- Where to begin. Long hours. LONG hours. Endless cold calling. Depending on your city, you're expected to solicit a lot of people for phone numbers on the street. I'd be sent out and not come back until I got a certain number of contacts that I could enter in my system and call later. - They advertise "choosing your own hours" but that doesn't happen until at least 4+ years into the company. If you're willing to play the long game, go for it. - I had an ambiguous set of health issues at the time and found out later that everyone training me thought I was milking it, despite me showing proof every time I had to leave early to go to a doctor. - They push creativity in getting clients but to their boundaries. When I expressed major discomfort in stopping people on the streets and was willing to go about other methods of finding a clientele, it just was not acceptable to my leader or any management. I also have a random string of phone numbers in my phone because of it (maybe a company cell phone should be considered here?) - The pay structure is just......odd. Also unless you hit gold in your first year, your paychecks are going to look rough. - It's "normal" to cry at work. It's almost bragged about amongst coworkers, talking about how much they cried in their first year. I never felt comfortable crying in front of other people before this job. - Management is either entirely hands-on or absent. I've seen leaders completely ignore their direct hires, or are gone for weeks at a time for either work or vacation. I've also seen management call people's parents when they've talked about quitting. It's inconsistent. - They literally put the Kool-Aid man in one of their presentations at our all-company meeting to encourage people to drink the Kool-Aid. At least they're not hiding it?
