Unreal expectations placed on your time… very different than what is described during interviews. You’ll be in training all day and then told to go home and study and if you come to work tomorrow without certain things memories you’ll be held back from advancing. They fully expect you an outright tell you to go home and do company things on your free time during training.
In the interview, they tell you that your schedule will be 11 AM to 7 PM five days a week and every other Saturday is a half day.
Once you’re in the role, post training, they have you coming into the office at 9 and 10 AM for different meetings and trainings.
In sales, you only work about 25 to 30 hours a week. But you’re sitting at home on call for much more than that. Your end time every day is completely unpredictable, which is really noticeable on Saturdays because if you get a 2 PM appointment, which is the latest you can get, you might be in someone’s house until 7 PM. If you get a 9 AM, you could be done by 2:30 PM. You just can’t plan anything with anybody else. This is all unavoidable, as you have to be available when people are home from work in B2C sales. But it’s certainly a con. Once you hit your stride in sales, the pros definitely make up for it.
Lastly, corporate recently decided that all of the newest sales reps who have not yet sold $1 million of revenue in their career have to give up one of their two weekday mornings off to come into the office for a meeting. This wasn’t the case before, but they did it to cover more appointments. Basically just took one of only two weekday mornings off away from their sales people that already work five weeknights a week and three weekday mornings a week, and every Saturday morning. If we need to cover more appointments, it sounds like a hiring and development problem that has rolled downhill for the newest sales people to pick up the slack.
