This company is the saddest thing I have ever encountered. Here's how they will scam you! First, you will answer a completely obscure add (whether it be via newspaper or internet) that will have nothing to do with the company (i.E. "Do you like having breakfast with stars? B.S.!!) You are really doing outside cold calls business to business selling the much loved products of Bellsouth. Then some completely fake bubbly person will call and say that you have been exclusively selected to participate in a first round interview, and that they are only doing them today and tomorrow (BS again) and what time is good for you % or %? So, thinking this is some great opportunity, you're sucked into one of their many dishonest techniques to scam you.
Okay so now you go to this office in Green Hills (that can only be afforded because she can scam tons of people on a daily basis) and are greeted by either JESS or LIZ who both are sucked into this monsters world (poor girls) and are now being paid hardly crap for a totalitarian monster that is completely irrelavant to their hard earned degrees (sad, I know). So now you are asked to fill out this ridiculous questionare that has no real questions that any respectable employeer would ask, and then finally brought in to the most histaricall interview you'll ever go to by either WHITNEY MYRICK (aka the fake monster) or STEPHEN SHEIREKO (the only honest one of the group). If you get Stephen, feel lucky, because the blonde didnt think she could scam you, he's a good person (by the way runs a seperate sales company and is very up-front). But if you got "Whit", as I did with many unfortunate others, heres whats REALLY up.
So the first interview is filled with tons of COMPLETELY out there questions like if you could visit any country in the world where would it be? But will completely avoid anything that has to do with the job. So, AMAZINGLY, she will then say she has several people to interview and she will only select a few for a second round interview and mentions once again absolutely nothing about the job. So low and behold, you WILL get a second interview, even if you came in and were dressed like a clown and have never worked a day in your life, eventhough they will say that there are only going to be a few that get the second interview.
So the second interview is just as entertaining as the rest of the crap. Remember when you were one of the select few that will get a second round??? Well, thats a lie too. Its a real shocker to walk into this pathedidc excuse of a waiting room and see 10 other people there. You will also come in expecting to have a real discussion about the job and SUPRISE, you have just walked into a full day interview shadowing a "top account executive. A "top account exeutive" will then come and show you a typicall day in the job. RIGHT, ok reality... These top account executives are people who have probably just completed their third week of training and have NO IDEA whats going on or even how to effectively interview a person, all they know is the automatic response to give (as you will find out this method is a trend) and you will spend a whole day following around this sad brainwashed person business to business and listen to them scam and minipulate each person they come into comtact with.
So before you get back to the office, the real kicker will beign. They will then do what most companies who have no morals do, entice you with MONEY!!! So they will lay out this huge "management training" crap about how they are trying to promote out tons of new offices and blah, blah, blah... Whatever. They say that you will have the opportunity to own your own company and create opportunity for others and make hundreds of thousands of dollars along the way, oh and by the way, this will only take about a year. How may successful companies do you know of that start making hundreds of thousands of dollars after only a year and are honest, NONE!
So you get back to the office and now supposedly the "top account executive" and the she devil will have to discuss your day and then evaluate what to do... No... They will tell sexual racial and dead baby jokes till they think enough time has passed and then bring you in and give you the job. Shocker, huh. So at that point they will walk you down and bully you into starting tomorrow and make sure you dont come into contact with anyone who may have caught on to any of their lies.
FIRST DAY, joy joy, so you fill out your "new hire" paperwork which will include an honesty clause that says if you are caught lying to customers you are to be fired. Funny, someone should dust that off and apply its guidelins some time. Then she will inform you that you will not be paid for 3 weeks and at that point youll receive a check that has training pay for the past weeks, LIES which will be explained later. And then after thats done, its time to enter ATMOSPHERE!!! Welcome to the most unprofessional ridiculous part of this place. There will be rap music, unedited by the way if you get what i mean, and high fiving (because all the CEOs and Executive do this instead of that immature shaking handa thing), and shouting and booty dancing, and hangman. WOW, that just screams proffessionalism. Another thing youll notice is that strangely all the employees are white and between the ages of 20-26. Thats once again a doing of ms. Whitney myrick. Equal opportunity employeer anyone?
So now the training begins. You'll have 5 maybe 6 days if your lucky to cram all the product knowledge, selling (or should I say Lying) techniques, and automated responses into your head before they cut you loose. But dont worry, your honest and upstanding trainer will make sure any commission he/she makes will be equally shared to you! Guess again! Let me let you in on a little secret, there is no compensation for training, eventhough, they will tell you point blank you are being paid. It is absolutely heart breaking to see a person who has a family be sucked into this crap by lure of money just to see him get cheated out of 3 WEEKS of 50 hours a week of pay. Its sickening. When you confront them about this, they will say OH im sorry, there must be an error or flaw and I will check on it. I worked there for 4 months and never saw a penny for my first 5 weeks. I have looked into this and even if you are a commission based only employee you are still to average out at least minimum wage but those rules dont apply here. (I have since reported them to the fair wage and compensation department of tennessee and they are outraged and pursuing more research). Oh and did i mention you are to use all your own gas, and your own car with NO compensaion at all to drive to a territory that is an hour away??? Ya Im gagging too.
So now that youve been taught to scam, eventhough you have NO IDEA you are really lying to your customers, heres how they do it. They tell you exact things to say to customers that conveinently omitts information to the customers and in turn enables you to make a sell. Really, does Billy Joe Bob's transmission need international long distance and does his credit card machine need voicemail??? According to whitney and all her lying schemeing sorry excuses for human being associates thinks so. OH by the way, I know youre a one telephone line extremely small businessbut i want to make sure you are covered just incase there ever was an accidental callling to an internaional number. Ya I accidently dialled Japan last week, it happens all the time. But lets neglect to tell you that its gonna raise your bill 20 dollars a month. Lets just say "your paying for all the features to activate it, " right BROOKE VAIL (one of the many fat, nasty fake tanned lying idiots who call themselves humans that works there)??? NO sorry that is a plain BOLDFACE LIE and I will have NO PART OF IT! Not to mention the part that really makes my skin crawl, no matter what the problem, be it personal or business there is an automated response to EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING! For example, I had a concern about the amount of time I was spending at work vs the time at home as a newlywed. Whitney then said she would have a meeting with me after work and we would discuss it. So the time came and she then proceeded to tell me we were going to the local bar to sit and discuss my personal issues and have a drink. Theres that professionalism again. So we then proceeded to have what I thought was a heart felt conversation about how she and her boyfriend had gone through the same thing blah blah blah, like she even cares about him, she tells him she doesnt smoke eventhough shes got one in her mouth every 5 minutes! What a role model. So, about 3 weeks later we have a meeting about "critical Conversations" and she hands out his typed out diagram of what exactly to say to someone if they have a personal or business related problem that always will divert the conversation from the issue and make it a plus for the company, even if its a lie, even down to how to get some one to take the least amount of time off if there is a death in the family. Unbeleiveable. Bottom line, I could go on and on and on of the lies that were told on a day to day basis with that place. The crap they fed me and will feed you is so outlandish and i feel so sorry for those people. So heres my advice to you wheter you are researching the company or are curious because it sounds too good to be true??? Well IT IS! Get out as soon as you can and dont be sucked in like I was for SOOOO long. All lies are soon uncovered, so do you want to be standing there exposed next to the heartless poor excuses for humanbeings when the time comes? You make the choice.
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