-Low pay, you will start at 40k/year and be expected to work minimum 10-12 hour days
-Car allowance sucks and they track everywhere you go each day and review that when you submit it every week to see if you were actually prospecting
-Insurance is really bad. Pretty much the same cost to see doctors and get prescriptions if you didn't have insurance at all. Make sure you're not planning of having a baby while you work there
-Upper management sees you as a number and they make that pretty clear
-Lack of help and guidance. Selling copiers is a process and if you're not familiar with it, there's a big learning curve.
-Lack of communication. Getting even a simple email back can be a huge challenge
-Super high turnover. If you stay a year, you're now a veteran in the company.. congrats! Now sell more or you will get put on disciplinary action plan
-THE COMP PLAN. Every year I saw it restructured to pay less and make bonuses more unobtainable. Bonuses aren't basically a thing there anymore, scary to think what the 2019 plan has in store
-How they take care of their customers. It seems like their model is get them to sign for 5 years.. then forget about all the great things we told them about MRC because they are literally stuck with us.. seriously, good luck trying to get out of a copier contract. It won't happen.
-Listening to the same 8 reps get multiple awards at every company event
*Side note - Ignore their promises for 'how much you will make in X years'. It's a lie, a big one. They will get you all hyped, hope you sell to a couple new accounts(that they will have locked down for 5 years making profit off of while they give you maybe $100 bucks commission) then expect you to leave or fire you when you can't hit their unrealistic numbers while they pass those accounts to the 8 reps so they stick around.
I didn't realize how unhappy I was working there. I wouldn't recommend this job to anyone unless it's a last resort. I'm not one to hold a grudge but in this case I am. I'm mad that I wasted two years on fake promises, broken communication, and lies from a company that has so much potential to be a great place to work for. If you want to give it a go at copier sales I'd wouldn't recommend MRC being your first choice. There's a ton out there, trust me. I know, because we would lose to them all the time because 5 minutes of research will show MRC is extremely overpriced and their customer service is basically non-existent.
