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Work for Progress

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Worst Job in America - Don't believe any of the positive reviews, they write the reviews themselves - Assistant Canvass Director Work for Progress Employee Review

1.0
Aug 19, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get to pretend to feel important

Cons

15 hour work days - 7 days per week, $24,500 a year salary which comes out to roughly $4.10/hr after taxes. Work for Progress' entire strategy is hire as many people as they can and then work them to death until they quit or they have grounds to fire them. They have incredibly high quotas and hire innocent people thinking that they have a job. The problem is that you have to knock door to door so quickly that it is almost impossible to not meet the quotas. I am not sure how this company gets away with blatantly violating labor laws but this company employs practices that would have made slave owners in the antebellum south tell them to calm down. They are weird, pushy, aggressive, uncompromising and only care about the bottom line.

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Work for Progress Response
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We're sorry that you had a bad experience. We are upfront about the work and especially when we are partnering with groups working on election campaigns, we're sure to tell candidates that they'll be working 7 days a week running a campaign office.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Their campaigns work on important causes, and winning a campaign is a good thing for people and the country.

Cons

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