Ahh... The Phoenix Solution, or shall we say Classic Marketing Concepts now. All Cydcor offices change their name rapidly to prevent complaints or lawsuits from building.
I would strongly recommend most people stay far away from this company. They are under the Cydcor umbrella scam (just google Cydcor scam if you're interested) and prey on new graduates desperate to get a new job in this listless economy.in fact, only handful of people in the office are over 25, or have been there for more than 6 months.
Many of the mentioned individuals that have complained about this company after working for a week. I can unfortunately say I worked here for a month.in addition, I spent a week at a neighbor company in Boston. Both businesses relied on the same slimy practices dictated down the chain from Cydcor. All offices rely on a bizarre cult-like mentality of chanting and out pocket paid trips to sleazy bars to try to allay the misery that everyone feels while working at this company.
The job involves DOOR TO DOOR sales regardless of what the ads proclaiming "fortune 500 marketing" which spam careerbuilder say. You will be expected to walk miles on the side of the road in snow, ice, and hail. I was promised a 401 k and other benefits. These benefits do not exist at all. You are expected to spend hours at the office WITHOUT PAY working management, presenting information and doing anything else they demand of you. The pay is solely based on a 28% commission from whatever you sell that day. Expect to work 10-12 hour days for potentially no pay (even experienced "top" reps have $0 days, I've seen it).
The best part! I got to go on a "business trip" to Boston my second week. I did "okay, " selling around a whopping $380 that week thanks to a freak sale where a CPA office bought $700 worth of office supplies. On the Business trip I was crammed into a smelly super motel 8 room for 2 with 3 people. One person was forced to sleep on the floor! No food was paid for, and all employees were forced to hang out in the office for over 12 hours. We only worked in the field for 6-7 of those, so all those other hours were "unpaid."
Sure experienced reps make $300-1000 a week or thereabouts (this is what I determined from talking to people not from the b.S. Pitch they give you). However, all gas is not reimbursed and, and there is NO sick leave. You're also required to drive to the office when you feel unwell to ask to go home, or risk being fired.
During training, until you "close" your first account you will make no money (isn't this illegal considering you sign W-2 forms you're first day of training?). From that point on expect meager money. If you can somehow manage coax 2 people or make $100.00 a day for 4 days in a row you're promoted. Now you get to work an extra hour in the office every day for no increase in pay. You will subsequently get new responsibilities of interviewing trainees, buying them lunch, and helping them pitch doors, all the while losing out on your own sales (90% of interviewees know better and don't come back the second day). If you somehow weasle your way up to assistant manager after a few years (at least 2, don't believe the pitch saying you can do it in 6-9 months), you get 42% commission, but also spend a lot of time in the office. I'd estimate one of 400 "corporate trainers" (expect only about 5-10% of people even get promoted to this level) actual complete this "management training" course and open their own office. From there expect around a 50% chance of failure (google cydcor if you don't believe me), in which case everything you worked for is done. If it does work, expect to scrape by, and make enough money to barely cover overhead costs and be forced to send employees on business trips in groups of 3 or 4 (illegal) to 2 person rooms (seriously "owners" are desperate and even push to have employees stay in the managers' houses).
This is a multi-level marketing scam. Straight out of the owners mouth, "you have a better chance of climbing Mt. Everest safely than being promoted at all in our management training program." Ha, that means that more than 50% of people don't even get their first pay check. You decide if that is complete crap or not!
Avoid this company. Sure top reps make a little money, but honestly $700 a week when you work for 55 hours a week with the cost of gas removed is around $10.00 an hour... Not much better than pushing carts at Shop Rite. And don't for a second believe your door to door scamming will ever count as valuable resume experience.
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