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Turning Point Brands

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From Kentucky to Calamity: The Rolling Disaster of Turning Point Brands - Sales Turning Point Brands Employee Review

1.0
May 3, 2024
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Pros

Enjoy a first-hand lesson in historical corporate structures, more archaic and untouched than the pyramids themselves. Become a grandmaster of paper artistry, turning your numerous rejection letters and vanished stock options into avant-garde origami. Each employee receives a free motivational poster claiming "Teamwork Makes the Dream Work" – a phrase dripping with more irony than a Shakespearean tragedy.

Cons

Be amazed as your bonuses evaporate with a magical flourish, only to reappear in the overflowing coffers of the executive team. Experience 'flexibility' as defined by those atop the corporate pyramid – bending over backwards to accommodate their whims while breaking under your own rigid workload. Partake in mandatory company merriment, a testament to the spirit of enforced enthusiasm in the face of widespread corporate desolation. Engage in a career game of Snakes minus Ladders, where aspirations go to die and promotions are as mythical as unicorns. Revel in the geographical disparity between offices in Kentucky, Miami, and Santa Monica, united by the shared experience of depressingly subpar salaries. Witness innovative employee retention strategies: redistributing tasks from departed staff without the nuisance of additional compensation, because who needs new hires when you have overworked existing ones? Absorb the fact that the company snagged a cool $7.5 million in forgivable PPP loans during COVID, only to see it vanish like smoke into the executives' lavish lifestyles. Enjoy a laugh or shed a tear over HR's monumental blunder: disclosing everyone's salaries, turning your plea for a deserved raise into a tragicomic episode of corporate absurdity.

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5.0
Sep 2, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Plenty of opportunity to grow within, solid bonus potential.

Cons

Heavy travel, somewhat disjointed management can create friction.

2.0
Jun 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent base pay with a company car. Manager was excellent and easy to communicate with. Mostly autonomous as long as you follow your KPIs in Salesforce. It’s hard to find work in CPG nowadays, so if you need a job, take it and keep looking. Age isn’t an issue like a lot of other startups looking for influencer types. Work life balance is the largest plus here.

Cons

Pure sales with company culture pitched at you, but it doesn’t exist. If you have a good manager, and don’t mind selling cancerous products (because someone is going to anyway), then you may be ok. Extremely high turnover, subpar insurance, and questionable moral values in the industry and company. The virtual training you receive takes about a week or so, and you could do it on your own in a day and a half if you know the CRM. This was a company I shouldn’t have touched and only took it because my manager was cool. It didn’t balance out the investor leader reaching out to say I would be watched for speaking up after I saw racist behavior. I should have stuck it out for the pay, or let them fire me, but I respected my manager too much to do so. Steer clear of this one unless you don’t mind walking into smoke shops selling drug paraphernalia that’s somehow legal (not cannabis pipes, but others you see in the streets). They don’t care about what they’re selling, only that you sell it, and don’t make waves.

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