Pros
When you first arrive at Barton Associates for your interview you will meet 1-2 very happy looking and enthusiastic people. Generally these are Team Leaders or an Office Manager and a Team Leader. They will enthusiastically tell you about your $35,000.00 "base salary" and the amount of earning potential you will have by working there. Perhaps they'll tell you about a personal achievement they have reached like buying a new car or going to "Club" one year. They will excitedly tell you about the workplace atmosphere and about your commission structure all while peppering in how much money you'll make by working at Barton. At the end of your interview they will shake your hand and tell you it was a pleasure speaking with you and that they will contact you soon. After the interview the interviewers will then gossip to the entire office about how your interview went. They will say things like "Yeah I hated him" or "Can you believe he took took an Uber to his interview? Look at him...he's still in the parking lot!" If you are "lucky" enough to be hired, (they hire anyone with a pulse), you will be sent a big congratulations email with paperwork to fill out via docusign and an employee handbook detailing dress code etc as well as a start date. On your first day you will start with a meeting that happens every day at 8:00 on the dot. IF you walk in at 8:02 you're marked as late. During the meeting every staff member there will introduce themselves to you and tell you how long they have been with Barton and what they do. You'll then find it odd that almost everyone in your office has only worked there for 3 months. Finally you get to introduce yourself to your new group of coworkers and off you go to trainings and meetings so you can finally hit the phones. 3+ hours/day of phone time is required as well as 100 dials regardless of your production if you get production. You'll then be stuck in a cycle that begins at 8 and ends at 5:30 or later Monday-Friday where you will watch those coworkers from 3 months quit, hear the gossip and unprofessional comments about the people interviewing to replace them before watching those people be hired and quit. The cycle continues endlessly. There are no pros aside from the BCBS insurance that will decrease your paycheck by 1/3 every two weeks.
Cons
What Barton does not want you to know when you are hired is that they have multiple unethical business practice lawsuits currently pending against them not only from former employees but also from clients and providers they have lured into signing a contract with them ranging from outright lying to clients about provider availability to not paying their providers. They also will not tell you about the multiple sexual misconduct cases currently ongoing against Barton from previous female employees (although you'll get a nice presentation about how it's not okay to sexually harass your coworkers and that you probably should not start sleeping with each other or trading sexual favors for clients or providers). It turns out that Barton Associates female employees (usually with large client or provider bases) are coming out more and more and opening up about how they "inherited" or were given these large bases (leftover from people who quit) in exchange for sexual favors by male managers. Here is a list of other cons you can expect from working at Barton: * Legitimately unfit managers who think they are smarter than you (ie. probably didn't graduate high school OR managed to wiggle their way through college to get a degree in interior design or something just as useless (although I can't think of any degree that is more useless at this moment. * No work/life balance * PTO that you cannot use * Zero room for actual advancement. If you apply for a different position at Barton you will be asked to quit and when you say no you will be terminated. * Gossip and unprofessionalism. Endless gossip about you, what you wear, what you drive, your production and your clients or providers. * Being blamed constantly for other employee's/people's deficits * Not being able to use your knowledge, education or experience to be successful but relying on being "coachable" by the people that are your Team Leaders or Office Managers. * Being expected to work when you're not working * Watching a new hire come in bright eyed and ready to go knowing that they truly believe they are going to make the kind of money they were promised during their interview and slowly seeing them realize that they won't and never will. * Literally everything.
