I worked in the San Diego office and the DC office and even after getting fired almost 3 years ago I am still SUPER bitter about the whole deal. I made the cut I made it 7 months there and have never worked so hard in my life. Which I gladly did as I was brought up believing if you work hard at whatever it is your doing good things would come out of it. I busted my ass calling sometimes 400 numbers in a day I had success and failure but I kept plugging away. They let me go once 4 1/2 months after I was hired and I was pissed because I was working so hard, I had a small but nice client base. I was not satisfied at all and when I found out I was moving across the country I went back in and asked for my job back in the new location. I got it and started right after the new year and was kicking ass!! I hit a slow patch and was not closing as many clients as they would have like and was let go again. They weren't even paying me a salary at this point as I was 7 months in and making only commission. I begged my manager to let me stay and keep on plugging away but was denied. I really liked working there, I knew nothing about wine and was educated, yes there is wine to drink all day long but it's not like they are standing there with a gun forcing anyone to drink. I can't help but think that part of their MO is to hire all of these new suckers to call call call all of the leads they get to weed out the good/bad prospects. Once you close a few clients and start to build your client list it's like they have no need for you. The worst part is that once you leave all of the clients, that I busted my ass to get, are divvied up among the older brokers. I was so spent after working there and let down, I mean if you work hard you're supposed to succeed, right? Well I had had success and enjoyed working there and found it challenging and frustrating and all that other crap but I was doing ok and they still let me go. Part of me wants to agree that yes it's a scam they're all full of it but I never really got that feeling, sure the wines probably are somewhat overpriced but the people that they are really targeting have the kind of money that they can spend $600/$700 on a case and want the convenience of having it shipped to their door. I am still really pissed about this job it makes me a little bananas to think of how stressed and upset I used to get and how badly I wanted to succeed there and that they just cut me loose. Even after I stopped get "paid" a salary. The sick thing is, is that I would probably work there again
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