Pointless door-to-door salesman job
Pros
Somewhat transferable sales training, nice office, expensive sound system and a good company of young people (mostly, depressed youth with degrees anywhere from International Relations, and Medicine to Law and English, who could not find decent employment in the professional field and got stuck with telemarketing job).
Cons
7:30 am line ups, odd culture, poor management, and terrible equipment. Rookies beware!!! If you work for Mediaplanet, prepare to see the stingiest company in the world and set yourself ready for a sketchy MLM-like brainwash. On employee's level the famous "Swedish cost efficiency" means $199 laptops, falling apart furniture, terrible internet connection, and complete lack of support departments (there's no HR, Legal, or even IT department)... "you want it -- you fix it" for anything from finance issues to technical support. In return of your hard work (50+ cold calls a day) you get free booze on Friday but only after you finish cleaning the office first -- really, why hire janitors if have qualified staff in the office? Mediaplanet's culture has three drivers: fear, envy and greed. Fear of being terminated (no sales in three weeks -- you're out!), envy for your colleagues (all sales are reported on CRM and sent out by email, although shaped into a friendly 'cheer' form) and greed that is constantly praised by management through mediocre morning speeches and motivational emails (expect to read and reply to 20+ dumb "go-go-go" emails a day).