Not what I expected - Anonymous employee Aflac Employee Review

3.0
Mar 29, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work when you want to

Cons

Not what I expected it to be. Every person from Aflac was extremely pleasant to work for. When I was hired, I was under the impression that I'd be working from home and I'd be my own boss. I was so excited to start seeing how much money I was able to potentially make. My first day of training I hated it but i thought that it was completely new and i had to get used to it so i stuck with it. I was told by a few people that i shouldn't be doing any work from home unless it was putting brochures together, collecting info regarding appointments or making up my schedule for the upcoming week. That was something that was extremely contradicting from my 3 interviews that advertised this as a 'work from home' job. I stuck with it and continued walking into door after door everyday and i hated it. I was able to make appointments but i eventually quit because i couldn't stand the cold calling, not to mention it was very cold outside. I gave Aflac 3 stars because their training was awesome and it was a great experience. Everyone was so helpful but I do however wish that the job was advertised the proper way or I would have never tried it in the first place. Best of luck to anyone willing to give it a try!

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