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3.0
24 Jul 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great people to work with. Management actually takes the times to praise for work well done as well as coach for improvement. If you can stand the pace, and can stick to the scripts, pay can be very good.

Cons

Very stressful clientele. Ads say product is free and then sales rep's job is to get them to agree not only to pay for that product but as many add ons as possible, often by steamrolling over objections and just saying "I am going to include this, OK?" multiple times. Even when it is obvious that the product is not suitable for the caller (70 year old woman calling about whether the parenting program will help her control her aggressive husband) you are expect to push the sale. It is justified by saying if they do the feedback survey they will get the cost of the program back. Training is very interesting, and while it helps you make discoveries about yourself, much of it is either impractical on the phone, or dismissed by the floor supervisors as not needed. Floor supervisors will often contradict each other, telling you to use one phrase and then the next supervisor tells you to never say that, say this instead. It is also a bit stressful in that the mantra seems to be every caller is a liar. HR consists of people that are not very helpful and seem to enjoy being that way.

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5.0
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Pros

Work from home and great pay

Cons

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3.0
22 Mar 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some very nice people to work with and get to know. If you don't like moving around much this job is for you. Sit at a stall and recite a script all day.

Cons

Underdeveloped team leaders, basically do nothing but joke around with each other then police the aisles monitoring your calls on remote headphones. Anybody can do the job, but if the people managing you have limited capacity then you have to deal with bad advice that won't improve your sales, and eventually you just concede. Also- beware of some hiring bait and switch practices: You may not be told in the interview that weekends are required, holidays are required too. They don't close for Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. That's just greedy. On the hiring website it says paid holidays. Nope, not for phone sales...that's for the managers. You work holidays.

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