TERRIBLE PLACE - Anonymous employee Gateway Concepts Employee Review

Like any company there are pros and cons. We work long hours, but being in my mid 20s I expected that with my first career. My coworkers are really fun to be around, we get to go to a lot of Blues and Cards games, which is awesome, and the training is great.

I don't know if I would even call this a negative, I actually respect it -- our Executive Directors are very direct and to the point.

The people were fun. I'm college-aged and a lot of them are right around that range or just a bit older. So hanging out with people my age was pretty cool. Learned a few leadership techniques that I took to my current job when I left. And definitely learned how to be more assertive in my day to day life so that's a plus too I guess?

Definitely was promised more than I got. Was told I would almost definitely be promoted within two weeks of starting when not a single person was promoted the entire three months I worked there. Even the leaders often didn't make the required weekly quota for the newbie promotion. I was lucky enough to be living with family as many employees (again even the leaders) struggled to pay rent and some lived out of their cars for more than a few weeks. Turnover was high and suspicious as hell. People would just disappear and we weren't supposed to ask about them or talk about it. It was like a damn serial killer was picking us off one by one. They go on and on about having a positive attitude but the atmosphere there is so stressful if you have a bad day or do something slightly wrong. Employees received tickets from police officers from soliciting and one was out with the assistant manager who then LIED to the officer who confronted them for soliciting in a no soliciting area. I often felt super uncomfortable in these areas and asked if they were okay to go into and I was told they were. And being 21 and gullible I bought it. It wasn't until my last week I learned about the ticketing, and had a run in with a door to door insurance guy who let me know that unless I had a specific piece of paper with me in person I didn't in fact have a permit to be there like I was led to believe. Basically was promised the moon and the stars, was instead given a position with cool people but long hours, a sometimes overwhelmingly intense environment, and basically broke the law multiple times a week. When I first started, my family jokes that i had joined a cult (given that I was gullible as hell and was so gung-ho about it for the first few months.) and it took a major wake up call to realize that I had basically been brainwashed. Thankfully I got out before any permanent damage occurred in my life or relationships, unlike some of my coworkers who gave up everything for this job and were kicked to the curb.