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Hello!
Based on the excessive capitalization, punctuation, and false claims, this tells me something about working at our firm must have truly upset you.
Overall your review seems to be quite offensive. Our results speak for themselves: Expanding 5 offices in 7 years. Consistently being recognized by our client as their top office. Consistently developing motivated individuals and providing them opportunities to grow in business. Most recently, being listed as one of the best and brightest companies to work for in Pittsburgh.
We do pay our employees (I think it would be incredibly difficult to have been in business for 7+ years without doing so). We are not a pyramid scheme (I have outlined this below if you truly are confused by the difference in sales and a pyramid scheme). We do run road trips! you are correct there. We also do book each person their own bed. We also provide gift cards for compensation on those trips. If we had this magical land where everyone would love our client, we would just put our office there and not make it a road trip. So again, this seems to be misguided information.
It is unfortunate that you had a negative experience. Just because you were unable to be successful does not mean something is a scam. I instead encourage you to reflect on yourself and seek improvement. Where can you get better? Where are your faults? How can you become better in business?
So if you were looking for a response, congratulation, you got your response. I am having our HR team respond to your other claims below.
Best,
Brendan
In response to your review....
1. We are not 100% commission. We offer base + residual + bonus payment for OR commission + residual + bonus payment for entry level sales reps. This choice is made by the Sales Representative themselves after 2 weeks of training. If you chose the commission plan and did not receive the income you thought you should have, please contact us and we can review all submitted sales. If you chose the base package, you would have been compensated a flat base rate plus residual commission
2. Pyramid scheme... We must be on different wavelengths as far as what constitutes a pyramid scheme. We do account management and sales for our client. We do not do network marketing, nor do have a platform where people earn more off other people they train. So the only similarity we have to this is the fact that we do sales. We don't try to hide that.
3. No pay scale - I'm unsure what you mean here, since you said we pay "100% commission", yet now you claim there is no pay scale? Again, see my response in the first bullet.
4. Liars / You will be a millionaire - This seems silly to respond to, but I'll just say this on a public forum... you won't be a millionaire. If we were all millionaires that would be great. So perhaps we talked about some Powerball numbers one day, but besides that we do not promise anyone they will become a millionaire. My guess is you're confusing this with our workshops on financial management. Yes, in the day of high student loans and low wages, we try to educate our team on topics that are really looked over in the school system today. If you took offense to us attempting to better educate our team, than this company was definitely not a good fit.
5. Dictate your own paycheck - Yes! Each payment plan allows for performance based incentives. There is also a base salary option, as described above. We think this is a tremendous benefit for anyone who has ever worked in a capped environment where they could only make a certain amount.
6. Road trips / Hotels - I'm unsure what your experience may have been here, but we are happy to discuss this through email or in person. We do run road trips to areas outside of the city that it does not make sense to commute. We do also compensate for the mileage / meals and pay for the hotels ourselves. No, we do not book the Hilton, but we do book hotels that even the President of the company is comfortable staying at, as sometimes he goes on the trips with the team. We do not require team members to "sleep in 1 room with 3 other people". We provide as many hotel rooms as necessary.
We hope this helps with any misunderstandings between yourself and the company. Again, it is unfortunate you had a bad experience with our company. We are always very open to speaking through email, phone, or in person.
We find when people go on Glassdoor and use their anonymity to vocalize claims, they do this because the claims are false.
Have a great day