Ok, This is one of the most shadiest companies in existance. I worked there for a week, from about 6:30 in the morning to 7-8 pm at night, I spent over 100 dollars on gas and tolls, and maintenance for my car, because they did not cover any of that. And in the end I made close to nothing. I GOT SUCKERED
INTO WORKING FOR FREE.
On top of that you were supposed to force a product on a custumer at all costs and if you are successful you make out with 30% of whatever you end up taking in for the company. They even make you sign this stupid contract, which i tried to get a copy of, but the manager there whose name is MATT, started yelling at me and sayin how if I dont sign it and get to work right away i might as well leave because people are waiting to get their carpets cleaned. He also strongly encouraged all the people who recieved the contract not to read it, he said it was all a bunch of b* that we wouldnt understand anyway.
I told him i was gonna read it and if i didnt understand it I would take it home, and thats when he started to get irritaded and insulting, he even pretended to call a lawyer which i found funny. The only thing I understood out of it is that I can terminate it at any time, and something about a 40% bond.
The scheme is carpet cleaning, and Duct cleaning. First of all, from what i have learned about this company is that they have no credibility besides their millions of faulty advertisements that claim that you will get your carpets cleaned for 7.95 per room with a 2 room minimum. Every one calls in on the coupon. Out of maybe 100 people that call they let you do 2 just to have on the books that sometimes they do the coupon price so it doesnt look like theyre trying to scam people.
This company does not have a website, like a lot of credible companies do, with employees who actually take pride in their work and get paid for it. Also the people dont have any training that work for the company, as far as carpet cleaning goes. And your first day they give you this t-shirt that says the name of the company on it and right under that in big red letters it says certified technichian. When I questioned them about the legitimacy of that, Matt told me that it made the company look good, but wasnt illegal to do. So, theres also a couple million of the duct advertisements floating around in your typical marketeer, value packs.
They also have this phenominal deal for air duct cleaning. Anyway, on my first day I was "training" with this guy named chuck, who was a "certified" technician.instead of an in depth informative training i had imagined, I just watched him write up faulty problems that didnt exist and overprice people over and over again. He would say "you need sanitizer to keep that bacteria out" and never put it in (he showed me what the machine looked like that he used to put in sanitizer earlier).instead of 59.95 for the ducts, like the coupon said, it would exceed 1000 dollars, and of course then the custumer would bargain down back to 500.
When he was "working" he would generally just do nothing and talk on the fone the whole time. He cut a few holes here and there, ran a vaccum hose around for a half hour, and taped the holes back up. I even asked him about it and he was like "wow, i can't believe you noticed that. Most people usually don't. "I asked him what his problem was and he just told me thats how he works. But he did show me the real way to do it after I had to raise my voice.
In any case I was never going to clean ducts anyway because you need a certification for that, and I didnt have one nor did i wish to go through all the trouble of getting one, and just stick with the carpet cleaning for a week, because i needed the money.
These people would make me drive from trenton, NJ, to bergen county almost every day. I had no control over anything, I couldnt pick the places that I wanted to go, and MATT said that if i complained he would give me the most * jobs he could find, which in his terms mean the ones which strictly need the coupon price, all over the state of NJ. I almost destroyed my car because of this job. But like I said I needed the money so i worked as hard as I could. At the end of the week I made a total of 1500 dollars for the company.
My check? Get ready for this 57.50. For like * 96 hours of work, and that was because people called for "redo's" on the work that i did. I cant believe that because most people write comments of the work you do on this comment sheet, and if not that then the estimate sheet, and all of my custumers wrote that they were satisfied. I didnt push anything on them that they didnt need, and gave them 110%. Every one of them, upon me leaving would leave me with a smile, and give me food and drinks and stuff like that. I don't know, somehow, i dont think that behavior adds up to them calling back and bein like"oh im not happy with what youve done you need to come back and do it again" they never even said anything like that.
This one time an old woman tried to rob me, of my services, because she refused to pay! When i called matt and told him i was calling the cops HE YELLED AT ME, AND TOLD ME TO LEAVE. I called the police and eventually got that money back, but she threw out the estimate so there was really no record of it, and i could have kept it and said that i just left, instead i decided to be honest and bring it back, and ask if i could borrow it. Matt then told me it was alright if i borrowed it since i worked so hard to get it, and in the end they charged me $50.00 as a fee on top of the 60 i borrowed because apparently there was a loaner fee for borrowing money from the company. No one ever told me about that until like 3 weeks after i quit, and i still havnt gotten those filthy 57 dollars.
Oh and another thing, one time i was on the fone with MATT in front of an angry potential custumer, and i said his name in front of the guy, he got angry and told me never to say his name in front of other people ever again. Something is definately not right with these people. I never learned his last name either, or any of the people that i worked with even the receptionists.
Now It was my mistake to take this job thinking that i would get paid well for working hard. All I want you people to know, is that supposedly this company is expanding like some sort of a renegade viral infection across the country. Be careful, because you might be next. Remember this name 1 NATION RESTORATION
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