Mindsight Marketing
Ok so they made it sound like i just received a huge opportunity when i got called back for a second interview. Never in the first did they say anything about door to door sales.
I was working for Disney at the time, and was forced to call out sick on the day i was supposed to help out filming an NFL commercial w / ESPN. I know many of u have seen it, its the parade commercial where football players are riding floats down the street.
So on my day of O, i knew something was messed up when I park and see this grungy sign that said, "applicants please park your car in the dirt across the street". I'm like so where the hell is the parking lot for us. Who wants to park in mud everyday. So that sign sketched me out already, cauz it looked like it had been there for 15 years. What kind of company is constantly hiring anyways??? Plus the building on the outside said "advertising Inc". Dont be tooo creative w / your sign. I later realized it said that in stead of the real name because there were 2 managers in the office.
The office was a dump, w / techno music and chanting going on. We waited a half hour before they called us 6 to meet the people we were going out w/. I still had nooo clue what the hell i was interviewing for, and i wasnt happy about a 9 1/2 hour interview.
Guess what we got to walk all day selling Bell South services to people who couldnt possible care less. We signed up no one that day, and probably walked 15 miles. If it werent for disneys extremely low pay i would have never taken the job. But allll I heared about all day is the money (millions) "you will" earn working for them. I dont know why i was sooo stupid to believe all the crap and lies they threw at me. I should have just looked at the cars they drive to see just how much money they really earn. Wait a sec... Oh yeah, my manager didnt have a car. He relied on his employees to pick and drop him off at his apartment everday. That sounds like someone earning 6 figures now... Doesnt it?!?!
So i worked for them for a little over a month. Now for those of you interested in working for cydcor, let me give you a brief explanation of my day, just so u can see if this appeals to you!
6:30am Wake, shower, eat breakfast, shave
7:30am Leave for work and get to deal w / the Heavy I4 traffic in orlando.
8:00am Start in "atmosphere" room where all the non leaders basically would for the first 15 minutes or so just pitch to each other, and go over our goals for the day/week. Before i go any further, "goals", needs its own special section in this.
Goals: My leader had this fascination w / goals. Thats fine to have some, but theres a point where you are going way over board w / them. I was required to meet on Sundays whenever my leader felt ready to get off her ass and call me. It could be 10am, it could be 7pm. Whatever she wanted, just another way for cydcor to ruin one of my few days off. What would we talk аbout: "GOALS" for the week. Ok thats fine i guess. But then after that i was expected to have a 2 paged typed outline of my goals for the week, on Monday morning... Where we were required to show up a half hour earlier to go over this. Wait didnt we do this on sunday??? Then we had to fill out yet another form on monday morning for our goals for the day and week, and well whatever it was never ending. To put it bluntly 5 times a day... Minimum we would go over our goals. U want my goals?!?! I'll give u them..."to make sales, so i can pay my bills." There you go, there's your 2 pages (Jerk offs). Ok now lets get back to my day from before.
8:45ish we would have a settle up where the high roler would tell us how and why they were successful. No names need to be mentioned but if i never hear the phrase "tight and to the right" ever again, i will be sooooo happy. U see our office sucked, when i finally left i was #3 on the seniority list (like it means anything there) And the only 2 leaders would do the morning speaches every day!!!
9:00 The manager gives his congrats to the high rollers of the day. The high roller says how they did it, and what their "goals" are, while we do these rediculous chants "juice" and hand movements. The manager then procedes to give his morning pep talk to boost all our confidence before we go on our marry way and hear a day full of NO's. This talk would consist of telling us about the money he and his bosses make, all upcoming trips he might take us on. Any stupid contests "mindsight open". Basically just a bunch of b/s that would drag out forever.
So here it is 2 hours at work, still havent made a dime. How many people are lucky enough to have jobs that will pay as little as mine. But then the day gets worse.
10-10:30ish Finally the morning b/s is over and we can go out and spend our gas and time trying to convince people to switch to bell south (another terrible company) from whoever their carrier is. To be successful at this kind of work u got to be arrogant, and a weasel. U cant care whose back you stab. This kind of work wasnt for me, i'm tooo honest, which is why i dont work there anymore. I didnt sign up many people. I absolutely hated the leaders and thier actions. They wouldnt care if they stole your apps, or went into your territory to take shopping plazas they thought they might be able sign up easily. (amal)
12-12:30 Lunch... Awesome after getting to walk around all day in a full suit, tie, and coat.in the middle of summer in Orlando in 100 degree heat, finally we can sit down for our only break in an 11 hour shift. Our half hour lunch. I feel "lucky" to have got the opportunity to do this kind of work!!!
12:30 The next slap in the face. Time to walk another 10 miles in this intense heat. "Hi, how are u today? My name is Jeff, and i'm here on behalf of Bell South. You are w / bell south, right? Yes, great... Well i'm just in the area for today talking to all the local customers about our new low rates and discounts that we just rolled out for the third quarter. So go grab a copy of "your" bill and i'll take a quick look to see where i can help you out today!"- Thats what i got to say to 50 businesses a day. Usually i would say that and then have a door slammed in my face, or maybe get screemed at, or even this one time i was fortunate enough to get a customer to let his 2 bull dogs loose on me. I got to run about an 1/8th a mile down the street. That got my heart pounding away. "God i love this work". So i would keep this up until about 5:30.
5:30-6ish Drive back after 8 hours of walking in intense heat. Completely mentally and physically drained after doing this. Maybe i made $30 dollars for my whole 11 hour work day, which still isnt over.
6-7:00 "Atmosphere" time again. WE'd all get to walk around w / our big smiles and say our day was GREAT... (God forbid we said otherwise) You say anything but great, say goodbye to your job. What i loved though, was the people threatening your job, were the people w / the worst attitudes of them all. Another thing, besides having no chairs in the atmosphere room... If you dare lean against ANYTHING thats grounds for dismissal also. So 11 hour work day, walk constantly in tremendous heat getting bitched at, then u go back and they force u to stand and get bitched at again??? On commission??? W / no benefits of vacation time??? HOw is this a good job??? Opportunity?!?!?
7:00 We finally leave, unless its "team night". Lets just assume this day wasnt. But i'd get to battle the traffic again, and get home for close to 8ish cauz of traffic. I would then have 2 1/2 hours from the time home to eat, shower, get changed, clean up, and attempt to have a social life before i would have to be asleep again so i can go through another day of hell.
I lost my g/f cauz of this company, my car, thousands of dollars, i got sick w / my zero insurance. Even lost contact w / many friends. I dont see how this company can be looked at as anything but fraud. They are sooo very vague w / everything, and will never be truthful or honest. The leaders are like machines that belong in some insane house. None which have a clue about reality.
I dont see where these millions and early retirement opportunity comes from. Not many people get it. Maybe 1 out 20,000 they hire. They say u'll earn $500-600 a week average. Not in my office, the best did that. The ones that stuck around. Everyone else made nothing close to that. I got screwed over by my boss. 2 months after leaving i've still only received $195 of my total money. If i do out the math i made $4 dollars a day, not an hour, yes a day... Working for this terrible company. I gave this line of work a shot, but its not for me, or most people. Our office average may have been about $200 a week... But probably less.
I call cydcor constanly trying to get my pay check, but w / all my issues i went through cauz of this company i was forced to move home. The office isnt in its same location anymore, and i have no office phone to call. Cydcor couldnt care less about its employees cauz if they did i would have gotten paid the rest of my money by now. There are others like me waiting for money. Any ideas for what we can do, respond to this.
All i can say is the line of crap they put us through makes me know that this could be the worst company on the planet. They ripped my life in florida away and made me broke cauz i couldnt adopt this machine mentality, and give them my life.
Sorry jerk offs, but i'm 23 and i've got a lot of life to live, not slave away in your claws of death!
Dont work for cydcor, they'll rip you off and destroy your life. One last thing... Door to door sales men making millions and retireing at the age of 30?? That'll be the day. Not in this life time luzers. Have fun living your crummy lives.
I think i speak for all ex-employees from cydor w / this. Your company f-ing sux! Your corruption is wide spread and i cant wait for the day your company is forced to close for having such a terrible reputaion around the planet!!!
Thank you for the "opportunity" to be your slave!!!
Jeff
Springfield, Massachusetts
U.S.A.
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