They withheld money paid from vendors for sales reps - Account Executive Zones Employee Review

1.0
Sep 24, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Honestly, not a single thing.

Cons

I worked there from 2005-2006. During my time, I uncovered the fact that they were withholding spiffs from their AE's, even though the money was paid to Zones from vendors. They mandated that AE's had to sell items at a certain price to get the spiff, which is pretty much illegal. I tried to run this up the flagpole, and it appears that this was nothing alarming, and I even had a high up executive admit that in fact they were paid the spiff money regardless of whether we sold it at 0% or 20% margin. They were stealing from their AE's basically. Not sure if this is still happening, but I'm glad I'm no longer a part of the company.

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