Great Culture but Bad Business - Anonymous employee Mela Group Employee Review

Business operations is mediocre. I thought they were fully transparent in the second round interview, but the experience was totally different. Everyone knows about the nature of the sales beast. But what threw me off was that your first two levels of starting, you ONLY get paid commission. You’re paid $8 for driving on the job and $1 for using your phone on the job. The tools that you use to complete your job (table, tent, tablet, etc.) are mediocre. You are selling outside (questioning what they do on rainy days). You only get paid $50 for three days of training, so starting off you’re technically only making $6 an hour. Overall, you don’t get paid for the amount of work that you put in from the jump. You’d have to be about the sales and management life with nothing to lose to succeed in this job. Overall, you don’t get most of the benefits UNTIL you’ve become a manager. I could easily start building benefits as a receptionist somewhere else on day 1 on the job. The absolute worst part was that I called and left a voicemail announcing my resignation, in addition to leaving a text message and asked to discuss when I would receive my check for a day of training. It’s been four days and I still haven’t gotten a response. Not sure if that’s illegal or not, but that is most certainly unprofessional to not even respond.