Quitting felt like I was getting out of jail! - Sales Consultant Scholastic Employee Review

1.0
Feb 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The coworkers were the best thing about this place.

Cons

Where can I start? Management that treat you as if you are lazy when in fact you are working so hard you go home with headaches. Doesn't matter if your revenue is way up for that season if you are one book fair short of your goal. Doesn't matter if you are 20 fairs above fair count if you don't have 15 hours of phone time per week. Doesn't matter that librarians are running several schools' libraries at once and don't have time to hang on the phone with you. Management rules by intimidation and threats. Most manager have not done the actual job that they are supervising so it is easy for them to say that you can find someone else at the school to "save the fair."

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