Very, very misleading. The positions they advertise are literally all the same job "Marketing Rep/Sales Rep/Account Exec/Event coordinator/manager in training" etc. They probably use fancy labels to entice people to for an interview. This is a straight up face-to-face sales job. Once in the interview, they go over your job responsibilities and talk about the end juicy goal of becoming an "Owner" and all the money you could make. The second interview they go over the career path/management program. I was to be a sales guy for the first couple weeks as part of the program (because i applied for "manager", then I would be promoted to another position with different roles, but you end up doing the SAME job the entire time all-while taking on other resposibilities such as training new-hires (and NOT getting paid for the extra work). It took me awhile to figure out who I was working for and how the whole business (legal MLM) worked.
Working at Explosive consists of working inside the surrounding Costco's and Walmart's trying to sell DirectTV plans to customers. Although not employed by those businesses, your essentially an employee there because most customers will come to you for help (questions about TVS, locations of other products etc) probably because your dressed better than their workers at Walmart and Costco, oh and your not getting paid for that either. The pay "base plus commission" is true, but if your having trouble selling I was warned they may take my hourly pay away because they couldn't "afford" me after having a unsuccessful few days, kinda disheartening. Oh, and driving to different Walmart's and Costco's everyday in tampa/brandon/st.pete traffic is not good on gas (which isn't reimbursed, nor the tolls). Your also responsible to attend 1 hour morning meetings regardless if your scheduled off work. So getting up early and driving to a morning meeting (oh but its paid whatever your hourly rate is) on your 1 day off is quite annoying. You spend what u made on gas to get back and forth. Oh and days you have to work an afternoon shift? you still have to go to these morning meetings, than go back home or do whatever twiddle your thumbs, it was very annoying for me.
Ive read a few of these reviews, the positive ones seem to be all the same, but they don't quite shed light on what your doing. The negatives ones are somewhat accurate but let me help clarify those. This is not a traditional pyramid scheme, your actually getting paid for your work (selling of directTV) . This is some variation of a MLM. Unfortunately, "legal" Multi-level marketing is so prevalent in Tampa and St.pete (and prolly the whole country) I was blown away after resigning and looking for other employment.
So when your hired, your encouraged (through the huge profits you will make when/if you get to open your own office) to sell enough so you can start building/recruiting your own team of sales guys/gals. (Your training new people and are in part responsible for them with NO extra pay). Than once you have your team (which your told 6-8 months unless something has changed) you will open your own office in another market (where others have failed). The owner/manger that hired you will now get a piece of your profits from your office, and thats how its similar to a pyramid. Constantly promoting people out and getting a piece of profit from those your recruit out. Once (if lol) you have your own office and recruit people out into their own territory, you will get a pice of their profits. The big issue is most people don't make it that far (owners already know this). I personally saw 1 get promoted out. But many of the desperate ones who stayed long enough to build a team and get shipped off somewhere failed and ended up going back to the same sales rep job they started in! And the cycle repeats itself all-while the current owner never stops making money. And you want to quit? no problem theres a full waiting room of new hires looking for that american dream.
Bottom line is a job is a job, but you should get PAID for any extra work/responsibilities. The career path/manager trainee program was incredibly misleading and a total waste of time. If they had just told me from the get-go i would be a salesman at Walmart the entire time while trying to recruit and train new hires, I would have never came back and both parties would have moved on with their lives, but I stayed focused on that dream they tried to ingraine in my head.
Maybe times have changed since and enough people complained? This was my experience and what I witnessed, nothing more or less. This is legal Multi-level marketing. All in all my advice? stay away. If your smart enough to do research on companies before you go work for them like your reading this, than your smart enough to learn from me.
