Glad this company doesn't exist anymore
Pros
I was 17 years old and it was my second job ever. It paid very well at the time (late 2000s). It was based on performance. In the office they had an actual "money cage" like they have on daytime game shows. If you had good metrics that month you got to go in there for a minute and grab cash. It was insane. They had a very flexible time off system. You could call out sick whenever you wanted, no reason given and no questions asked, up to a certain number of times, I think it was like 12 or 14 times. If you went over that you were fired.
Cons
Inbound telemarketing. Someone sees our ad in a newspaper and calls our number. Except we were selling a mostly useless product. We sold subscriptions of listings of foreclosed houses/auctioned cars in the customer's area. First month was only a couple bucks and then after that it was $40/month. Except you can find this information for free on the internet. So it is a business model designed to scam old people who don't know how to use the internet and hope that they forget to check their bank statements and notice the recurring charge of a service they probably only used once. In fact, the trainers/managements would hold meetings where they openly stated that scamming old people was the goal and would literally cackle like evil cartoon characters about it. (That is when I quit) Also, occasionally some customer would call in from the middle of nowhere Montana or whatever - we could see there were no cars/houses listed within 100 miles of their town. But we weren't allowed to tell them that; we were supposed to lie and try to sell them the service anyway. Also the subscription department was separate and I heard that customers would have a very hard or impossible time getting the subscription cancelled. We had to follow a script to the letter. Except the top sellers never followed the script at all. I would walk by them and they would be saying completely different things. Basically they had a hypnotist's voice and would hypnotize people into getting out their credit card and reading the numbers without realizing what they were signing up for.
