Pros
you will learn a lot if you can survive at Zones you can survive almost anywhere I am thankful for everything I learned working at Zones. The training was beyond awesome. I don't regret working for them at all. I am where I am today due to all of the years I worked there.
Cons
Most managers are checked out and just going through the motions. So much busywork that does nothing but take your time away from building your business or making the company money. You work hard to make the relationships with your customers and once a year they take some of your buying accounts to give them to other reps. You can only work the accounts in your book of business. When you create a relationship with an mfg or customer and they want to give you a referral it will always go to someone else. They change not only your book of business every year but your compensation as well. They wait till the last minute to tell you what the new comp plan is and then they date it back to the beginning of the previous month or that month. You are not given your legal right to decide if you want to continue working with that comp plan as they have already back-dated it. They have one of the most restrictive contracts for non-compete, non-solicitation of customers, and non-solicitation of employees. There is a really strong good ol' boy mentality at Zones. You are treated like a number, not an individual.
