Unorganized, unprofessional and uneducated staff.
Pros
Freedom to select your client base and somewhat make your own schedule.
Cons
The positions are purely 1099 positions which isn't a deal breaker if you plan for filing your taxes and making a large payment to the IRS at the end of the year. This also means there are no benefits so plan accordingly. All expenses are out of pocket, including your 8 hour "training" day. The training day was a joke. The owner's assistant read to all of us from a power point slide, in the dark., for three hours. The accounting system is terrible. I received what I believed was training from the accounting person on exactly how to log my time to account for all face-to-face time with clients (including transporting my clients). Later, I was informed by the owner's assistant she was not going to pay me for transporting my client to his parents' houses because I submitted my time incorrectly. She basically said it was my fault I was trained incorrectly because I didn't ask anyone else about it. So, if you work here, be ready to verify everything you're told with everyone else because they cannot effectively communicate with each other. Lack of responsibility by owner/office workers. The owner withheld my pay for several weeks. When I made it clear to her I was facing eviction, she had an emotional outburst and accused me of throwing my personal problems in her face. Getting evicted because of nonpayment is 100% on her. Period. I nearly lost my car, and my insurance was cancelled because I couldn't float my expenses any longer. The owner's response was that I should have kept my full time job when she hired me, "I didn't tell no one to quit they job." Verbatim. Highly unprofessional. When I contacted her for my 1099, the owner called my new employer and accused me of harassing and threatening her from my work. Needless to say, when they read the two emails I sent to her requesting my 1099, there were no threats/harassment found in the communications. If you work for this company, anticipate drama. Lack of skill by management. When the assistant to the owner held an online conference for domestic violence training, she didn't understand how to use the mic. The entire 2 hours of time we spent in this mandatory training was wasted due to her incompetence. The pay. The pay is enticing as it's advertised between $26 and $48 per hour. Do not let this fool you. By the time you finish paying for fuel costs an spending several hours weekly entering your time and case notes into the archaic system, you're earning half as much. Furthermore, you have to attend mandatory weekly meetings (unpaid) for which you're also charged a fine for if you don't attend. They also skim money off of your checks for "reopening the system" when you have to add something to one of your records, even if THEY are the ones who have required you to do so. They have no problems with helping themselves to the money you've earned as a contractor with the State of Indiana. My spouse and I have dubbed this business as "Promising Failures"
