Disposable - Canvasser DVCanvass Employee Review

Not secure employment- must meet quota weekly initially then monthly- meaning when new, if you miss quota 2 weeks in a row, you are fired. After 3 months, if you miss quota 2 months in a row, you are fired. Actual hours usually short of full time- lunches were 45 mins long (unpaid) and usually happened like 1-2 hours after arriving to work, when I didn't really need a lunch yet. This was a huge chunk out of my day. Shifts were already only 7 hours long, bringing my weekly hours closer to 31 rather than 40. High Pressure- YOU MUST SELL TO KEEP YOUR JOB! This takes your passion about human rights and commodifies it. You must have exhausting conversations with people in a tight financial time. Sometimes we went to working class neighborhoods, people not much better off than me, and were supposed to hear them say "no" 3 times before giving up. This company doesn't realize that no should mean no and it's not ethical to pressure people to give money to a huge nonprofit and act like they don't care about their children, or don't care about human rights if they don't donate. Sketchy tactics- again. you were supposed to hear a strong "no" 3 times before giving up on someone. People would get angry sometimes. One of my coworkers got spit at once. We were supposed to ignore "no soliciting" signs because "sometimes they donate anyways" and "we aren't solicitors" (not true). We were supposed to go through closed and locked gates. Not rare to get a dog running up to you, luckily I never saw anyone get bit but there's no way it's never happened. Also watched a coworker once sign up someone who barely spoke English and couldn't fully understand what they were paying for, maybe couldn't communicate that the donation was recurring- because they were desperate to keep their job. They want you to pay $100 out of your first check for a "tablet deposit" and make you sign something saying they can- this is ILLEGAL UNDER OREGON LAW ORS 652.610(3)! DO NOT LET THEM TAKE THIS OUT OF YOUR CHECK! Even if you sign, they are breaking the law. Stressful- hustle culture. Leads you to be willing to play along with the sketchy stuff. Not likely to be able to keep employement long enough to get benefits (90 Days)- again needing healthcare makes one desperate. Inflexible time off/sick policy- "100% attendance policy" meant that if you called out, you had to work 6 days the next week. If you called out for 3 days, that meant you'd be working 6 day weeks for the next 3 weeks. No ifs ands or buts. Also, when I started, I told them I was going on vacation in a few months- when the time came, they told me I'd have to do those 6 day work weeks when I got back. I vehemently refused and they folded and said it was fine since I told them when I got hired. Funnily enough they couldn't even guarantee I'd be working there by the time my vacation rolled around, and I wasn't. Ridiculous turnover Seem to be interested in promoting DEI, but actions do not reflect! The crew gets more white and male the higher up the chain you look... also neurodivergent people are significantly more likely to fold under the pressure of this job and they do not care.