On January the 30th, I began my journey in a company known as Trebor of which all my hopes and dreams of a promising, successful job were seemingly fufilled. The first few days were exciting; I was told of all the opportunities of which the company, as well as myself, could benefit from. The job of which I was to preform was to basically sell people Kirby vacuums. Sounds easy, right? Well, all was not what it seemed to be...
After a week of basic training (learning to operate the vacuum, etc.) we were sent "out in the fields". I couldn't believe my eyes as to what we were embarking on. We were travelling 45 minutes away to go DOOR-TO-DOOR and try to sell vacuums (after being previously told that we'd have "set clients"). My initial thought was "Isn't this soliciting? Isn't that ILLEGAL?" Not too soon after, we began being followed by the police.in the event of getting pulled over, I was told to basically lie and state that we were taking surveys, and were in no way selling anything. So, basically, in addition of being lied to about what we were going to do for the job, I had to in return lie to athorities about what we were doing as a whole. Real promising job, right?
So, in the bitter cold of a town I was hardly aware of, we knocked AT LEAST 75 doors, most of which were slammed in our face. We didn't stop knocking doors until about 9:30 at night (who wants people knocking on their doors at 9 at night?) and didn't return to the main office until about in hour later. So, after basically a 14-hour work day, I was only able to do 2 demos, and according to the "contract", you have to have a minimum of 12 TO EVEN GET PAID! So, if I didn't have that at the end of the week, no paycheck. Thats 14 hours a day of my time wasted. That's roughly 84 hours in a 6-day workweek. Sounds like fun.
Needless to say, my time with the company was short-lived. Who wants to join a company in which they're basically lied to and bribed into, and then denied pay for 14 hours of work. If you're ever sucked into this, get out before YOUR personal time is wasted. And, if you ever hear a knock on your door from people wanting you to buy a Kirby (and NOT because they want to give away "free car-vacs"), don't answer, because it WILL be a waste of your time, considering how atrocious the company treats their employees. They sucked me into it, and now I'm dishing the dirt right back out.
Mason
Perrysburg, Ohio
U.S.A.
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