Pros
There are no good reasons to work here. I know you need a job. But don’t do this to yourself.
Cons
If you’re interested in sales. Run. This isn’t sales. This is highway robbery. Pepper in some sleazy sales techniques. Some ridiculous training. And you’re thrust into the world of used car sales. I mean recruiting. My mistake. If you’re interested in recruiting. Run. This is not recruiting. You’re just calling job boards. And harassing everybody else. - their recruiting software is so bad. Omg it’s so bad. I laughed when I heard how much they paid for it. Omg. It’s hilarious. They still use pen and paper!!! And dirty old resume stacks from before 911. They were transitioning to paperless. But honestly that was a long road ahead from when I left. - you’re gonna fee really bad about yourself working here. You will be required to bring in 4 candidates per week. And often times. You won’t have interviews to send them to. So why bring them in at all? To interrogate them for information. Where they’re interviewing. And when. So you can follow those leads to generate new business. - and how do they generate new business you may ask? And the method they use is cold calling. Which can work don’t get me wrong. But they way we did it was ridiculous. Untrustworthy and wrong. Forget about establishing a relationship with your client. Forget about networking. Forget about decency or people’s time. You cold call with a blocked number. And you keep doing it. And keep doing it. Until they are screaming in your ear. Yelling at you to stop. It’s shocking that in this work culture. No doesn’t mean no. And I wonder where that mentality trickles down from, or into in their outside social life’s. That is. If you’re able to maintain one. I was told by my direct superior. Wives don’t like this job. Family Members don’t like this job. Working 7-7. A scheduled break. Like a child. And forced work events made me a robot. I lost a bit of me. I stopped being funny or laughing. I barely saw my wife. My kid. My friends never saw me either. I felt brainwashed into a cult. And I convinced myself it was for the betterment of my career. It wasn’t. There was a bar nearby. Sometimes the stress drove me to drink at noon. Almost every day. To get that confidence so I can go and do monotonous work for a boss who took my commissions while I made minimum wage. Honestly. I could have suffered a lot more had their been nice people. But they weren’t nice. They were suffering as well. And the ones who drank the kool aid even more than you did we’re just bland. Blank people. And they’d be pitted against you like Ancient Rome. Kill or be killed. Forget teamwork. They don’t stab you in the back. They stab you in the front. For all to see. And when you did strike up a conversation they were mining you for gossip to report back to the bosses. Basic people. Company filled with frat boy losers. I’m shocked at anyone who still works there. Just goes to show you the power of suggestion and how desperate people are to pay off their student loans. How they do that making minimum wage is beyond me. Because the Lyme t structure is utter nonsense. Even one of the managers who was higher up never cashed a single commissions check in his entire tenure. Because your performance is team based. And the revolving door of people leaves little room to grow or develop. Was told I would be making 120k in a year. That was a complete lie. It’s not structured that way. It’s near impossible. And if you buy into this then you need to get help. Because the writing is on the wall. Or the Glassdoor in this case. You are not the exception. Find somewhere better. You’ll thank me. And you’ll thank yourself. This job. Allowed me to quickly find another job. Making more than 120k now. Which is a livable wage in Toronto. And it’s not even that much money these days. So trust me when I tell you. It’s out there. Just not here. You’re young. And finished college/university. You left the drinking frat boy world behind. And the world is leaving that crap behind. Maybe you’re that type that wants that lifestyle still. It’s here in abundance. But if you’re not that. And you’re a free thinker. Who’s intelligent and ambitious. You deserve better. Rant over. Worst period of my life. I was in the Toronto office now I’m in nyc. Doing my thing. My way. Making money doing it. So can you. Run!
