Pros
Lots of driving and meeting new customers in their homes, working with some great people.
Cons
They do not trust their staff, they treat everyone like they are going to do something wrong or have in the past. You have to fill out daily a mileage report every time you start and stop the engine. Even though the van is tracked. You have to fill out a daily time sheet with the time you started the engine in the morning and turned it off at night. Even though it is on the previous report. You have to explain how many measurements or compliance’s checks you have completed, even though they receive a report every week with this information on. You have to let them know what showrooms you have visited against even though it is on the mileage report. You have to complete a COVID sheet everyday (not a bad thing) plus you have to complete a vehicle van check everyday. None of this paperwork is accounted for in your working day. As when you are not measuring or driving to a measure you have to be in the showroom completing compliance checks. If you do not hit your target then you have to explain why. Even though we could’ve been getting diesel getting our van cleaned. Completing all of this paperwork. Every email or communication is threatening, there are never any positive communications you don’t here what’s going well or how you’ve been doing a good job. They just think everyone is trying to get one over them and threaten you in capital letters and red writing. The rota is terrible, it is 4 week rolling with only one weekend off in 4 and only 2 Sunday's. it is a mixture of 9-18:30 shifts or 10:30-20:00 shifts. Recently they have apparently taken into consideration people aren’t happy with this. So have offered two alternatives. Of four week rolling again of 1 week of early and 1 week of lates. Or 2 weeks of early and 2 weeks of lates. So if you’ve got kids you will see them to take them to school and that’s it for 2 weeks. They dictate when you can take your lunch even though you are in a van driving from measure to measure. You then have to take an hours lunch when they say, sitting in your van which could be in the middle of nowhere. But apparently we are showroom based employees so surely they should allow travel time to and from a showroom for a lunch break. Also the contract states we should be having a 30 min lunch so they have added 30 mins onto everyone’s shift to accommodate this.
