Run away fast. - Sales Professional Tom James Company Employee Review

1.0
Aug 8, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None at all, this company is a complete and total scam

Cons

Horrible work culture, very cult like environment. The office I was in at South Florida expected you to work 13 hour days for little to no compensation and shamed you for caring about your family or personal life and wanting to get home to your family before the sun sets

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Tom James Company Response
4y
As a company that really strives to build and develop people, we're sorry to hear you had a negative experience. If there are any situations that you would like to discuss privately in more detail, we are always open to talking—just email careerdivision@tomjames.com. We want you to know that Tom James values your review and takes all comments into consideration. Without being argumentative, we do like to take the opportunity when relevant to point out to any potential readers feedback that is factually incorrect. While we appreciate feedback of any variety, it's also important to be factual: - We do not expect 60+ hour work weeks from our new partners. In general, this isn't our management style. It is TRUE that many of the people we attract choose to work very hard in their first years of building their clientele. Our belief is that if we help people develop goals for the life they want to build, and help them develop an activity plan to accomplish those goals, they'll use both their work ethic and their efficiency/creativity to figure out how to achieve them on a monthly basis. While it does take hard work to get your business off the ground here, it is not our culture to enforce a specific hourly requirement. We have recently implemented a new pay plan structure. Tom James provides fully comprehensive medical coverage, a robust benefits program, and our employees are W2'd employees. We offer a traditional 401(k) matching program, employee ownership, and also a profit sharing program where we share our profits back to the employees at the end of each year. We realize it takes time, a lot of hard work, and determination to build your own business. Tom James is dedicated to providing training, coaching, technology platforms, 1-1 meetings, lucrative monthly bonuses and a positive culture in order to empower our Sales Professionals to be successful. Our number one goal is building people. Thank you again for your comments. Best of luck to you.

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Tom James Company Response
1mo
Thank you for taking time to write a thoughtful review! It is important to us that each person at Tom James Company has the opportunity to build a long-term career for himself or herself. Feedback from current and past employees allows us to continue to grow and develop our opportunity for everyone.
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