I placed my resume on a website and less than a day later I received a call from a Cydcor affiliate. I was told I was chosen to come in for an interview. I went in and everything seemed a little Iffy. I was told that I would be making 6 figures in a few months and that it hardly required much work on my part. I was told that there would be no out of pocket expenses for me. That this job was an opportunity to learn how to run my own business and that my job title would be Manager in training or something along those lines. I was told if I proved myself in less than 6 months I could be running my own office just like he was. I was told that the VERY MINIMUM that I would make would be $400.00 a week. I asked about the hours and they said they varied and that I basically made my own schedule since it was based on commission. I was told the more I worked the more I made. That was my motivation for my job. Good pay and flexible hours.
I was also told that I may be called in for a second interview since the manager liked what I was offering. He hardly glanced at my resume.
The very NEXT day I was called in and was told that I may be one of the few chosen to take this job that over 30 people applied for (if that was the case then why did they call me?) well needless to say I decided to try it out anyways. I was curious.
I was sent to see a girl that was on the job. They tried to get me to stay three hours with her but I was not going to stay for something I wasn't getting paid for. They relented. I was told my first week that I would be making 500-600 dollars a week, in a month at the most I'll be making 700-900 a week and in no more than 3 months after that I should be clearing well over 1000. Then the girl called the manager of the office and he told me I was hired. He asked when I could start and I told him I needed two weeks to leave my job I had at the moment. He proceeded to get pushy and ask if I would leave the next day, that this was an opportunity of a lifetime, ect ect. I held my own and I waited the two weeks.
So I started in June, First let me say that I was lied to right off the bat. I was not guaranteed at least 400 dollars a week. They made me sign a form that informed me that I knew I was commission based and that I would be making minimum wage. The manager convinced me that the leaders would help me till I could get on my own and that I still would make my $400 mark. So I relented.
And that no out of pocket expense thing. We have to pay for all our gas wherever we go, there were two different stores that were at the least an hour and a half drive from where we were. Their excuse for making us pay for our gas, yet telling us everything would be paid for is You can use it as a write off Anyone that is tax savvy knows that you hardly get anything at all back.
We were forced to go to a morning meeting where all they drilled into your head what not to be negative and how to Con people into getting things they never needed. We sold Bellsouth packages to customers that were in Cingular stores. Not an easy feat. We were also forced to go to an evening meeting as well.
My first few days were really bad. I was with a leader who made me do the pitch and everything but she put HER name on all my applications. The apps = your money. I was mad. I wanted to talk to my manager about it but I was told by another leader that I was just being a Neg-Bomb because under no circumstances are we allowed to EVER be any kind of negative feeling at all. My first week I made less than 250 dollars.
They lied about the hours. I was told that on very few occasions would I have to stay past 7:30Pm. We stayed pass 8 most nights, but we could only get paid up to 7:30. I have no clue why. I was also told that I would be given an hour for lunch and that I could take it. We never were. Their motto was FIRST ONE HOME, FIRST ONE TO EAT!!! We never got paid for lunch hour that we usually were forced to work through.
The next week they had a convention and I did not have the 300 to fork over to go so I didn't work. That week I made less than 125.00
The next two weeks I was doing a little bit better, (maybe300 if I was lucky) but I was with someone who stole my customers and put her name on my applications, when I confronted them about it I was told I was being a Neg-bomb again. I was to my breaking point.
On top of everything every store that we went into at least one time a day we had an irate customer come in with an extremely high bill. This was entirely the companies fault. They trained us to give pricing for things that were actually priced 10 to 20 more dollars expensively. One thing we were actually taught to do was quietly and discreetly admit the pricing we gave them were pre-tax prices. And if questioned farther to tell them that the taxes that we could guarantee were $7.00 but there would be a few more very small taxes applied by the state. So in reality something that we said would be 60 usually ended up costing the customer 100 or more dollars. I know from experience because I signed up my own aunt for this phony stuff before realizing that they had not told us everything about the pricing.
Also, I had an emergency come up where I had to take a day off to take my father to the hospital, he is a dialysis patient and he was very ill. I was told by my manager that I did not have good work ethics and I did not know what kind of opportunity I was giving up. He also told me that I needed to get my priorities straight or I would not make it far in the business. My family is my priority. I just chalked it up to him having a bad day and let it go. Later when I needed another day off for the same type of emergency I was told the same thing. This is when I found out you really don't get to take time off when/if you need it. It was just another lie they fed me to get me to sign up for the job. They had us working Monday through Saturday 9:30-8 at the earlist.
I was then asked to go a business trip to New Orleans. I was told that my gas would be paid for (yes, they made me drive my own car) and that my check would be put in the bank Monday. I was not told that I would be sharing a two bed hotel room with FOUR GIRLS. They made me sleep in a bed with a complete STRANGER. I also was not told that everyone wanted to party the whole time. I was under 21 and I was left out of everything (of you ever worked with the company you know the motto is TEAMWORK!!!).
I used my charge card for gas and then it started getting denied. I called my bank and found out that I was over drafted the $180 that I had spent to get there. I called my boss and asked where my check was and he said sorry I haven't had time to cash it, I promise ill cash it tomorrow. (Tuesday). Wednesday rolls around and I STILL hadn't had my check cashed. I finally locate my money on Thursday. My boss put it in my savings account something I can't touch. So I call him and ask him to send me the now 200 dollars ive spent in gas so that I can eat for the next few days and that's when he replies that I was supposed to get that money off of the people that I drove. This is after he specifically told me that he would take care of the gas money.
Needless to say, and not surprisingly we did not get paid for the 10 hour drives we did on the Sundays to get to New Orleans and when I found this out I went in the office and promptly QUIT!!!
When I quit I was in major debt. I had numerous repairs I had to make to my car that I had acquired wile on the job and I was back on my rent. I was lied to the whole time and I feel very cheated. There is no legal way I can get to them so I had to suck it up and try to pay all my bills. If I did ever make it to manager I wouldn't have taken it. I've seen too many friends that I did happen to make in the company go broke and loose apartments, Ive also seen people that moved to Florida from out of state getting houses they couldn't afford because of the lies that the manager told them. It hurt me to be a victim of this vicious company but I did learn my lessons. I just hope whoever reads this who is considering working for this company or its subsidiaries will take this to heart and run away from this money sapping company as fast as they can.
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jacksonville, Alabama
U.S.A.
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