I want to quit my devil corp job…should I?
For context, I’m 22 and freshly out of college. My last job was as a babysitter and then a bartender. I actually jumped up and down and quit my old job immediately when I got this one and was so excited. Most people in office are over the age of 25 but NO ONE stays. And I’m beginning to see why. And these mfs are threatening me with a promotion.
I browsed this subreddit a whole lot and here are some red flags I can name:
• We have office time on the top floor of a decent office where we actually just stand around in fancy suites with notebooks for an hour while they “teach” us. Intro, Story, Pitch, KISS (Keep it Short and Simple) all of that.
• Then we drive to the location where we set up outside a CVS or something. We set up a folding table or a tent and stop people all day asking them to donate to charity. We are taught it is always going to be 90% no and 10% yes. Every no you’re closer to a yes, so your no’s should excite you.
• They are CONSTANTLY interviewing and hiring new people who DO NOT STAY past the first week or so. Thing is they don’t give you your paycheck until two weeks after but even then it’s not your two weeks paycheck. Your pay will always be staggered and delayed by a week. So I’ll get paid for this week next week, etc. They had initially said I’d get paid base + commission and then they informed me that it would be base OR commission after my first day. I found out my first paycheck Monday is going to be 250 dollars. After working two weeks. If I was still babysitting I’d have over a thousand dollars by now.
• It started out with them saying it’s 9:30-6 PM with two days off but they say that after hitting three “qual” days I’ll get promoted to leadership after which I have to come in at 7 for a meeting and go back home at around 8:30, doing another meeting after field.
• Every day in the morning meetings, we have TV time where we do shoutouts and compare everyone’s “sales”. Before TV time everyone does a chant. I know. They are ALWAYS playing and singing along to music during TV time which I thought was so fun at first.
• We have Team Dinner Wednesday night and Team Night Fridays. The “leaders” also go to church together and drinks after on their ONLY OFF DAY which is Sunday. They spend ALL their time together and have no other friends.
• They say that they make tons and tons of money doing this but I’m beginning to have my suspicions. My supervisors have NO boundaries and constantly harass me about eating takeout and not cooking my meals even though personally I eat leftovers for days so with my ADHD this just works. PLUS, if I’m WORKING, I SHOULD be able to afford the 10 dollar meal on Doordash.
• They started out being REALLY nice to me but as they see (or think) I’m invested and also that I’ve gotten to be top in the office after only my first week, they are beginning to treat me HORRIBLY. But only when they are one-on-one with me. The “office sweetheart” is downright abusive to me when no one is watching. I feel like I’m going crazy.
• Despite all the team nights, they DO NOT want you to even talk to the people on your same level. As in your coworkers. They call this cross networking. That you should always be networking up. So do not talk to other people in entry level.
• They call your friends and family “outside influences”. They gave us an example of this one guy who was performing poorly because his family kept telling him this was a cult/mlm. They transferred him to Minnesota away from anyone he knows and now he’s doing great apparently. Top performer in the office. This scared the shit out of me.
• They have networking chats where you send in your sales throughout the day. You might remember I mentioned “qual day”. A “qual day” is when you raise 500 dollars a day and you get a payout of 150 dollars for every qual day. When you have three qual days you hit leadership after which you start building your own team and teaching them. They want me to have brunch with my team in my free time also. Apparently once you hit leadership, qual days are called standard and you get convo’d if you don’t hit standard. The pressure to raise insane amounts of money per day is increasing. Nothing is ever enough. They even started having us track our donos via a system called TPCD. Talk, pitch, close, donate.
• My sweet supervisor gets REALLY mean the second I ask any questions about pay or hours worked. She says it’s okay because she’s not lazy and she’s trying to retire in ten years so people with that grit can make it. This has made me feel really guilty about wanting to quit. Especially since my parents were so proud of me for getting an “office job”. However, I found out from a coworker that my supervisor initially thought this was a cult and stayed on because she felt she had to expose something but I guess she got sucked in.
There is more so feel free to ask. Just don’t want to make this too long since idk if anyone will even read it. I’m good at my job but my passion is making films. I’m a film major. I’ve not had any time to do my film gigs. Is there actually money in this business? Should I stay for a while and make a bag before I leave? My coworker is quitting Monday. Please give me any insight you have.
Thank you,
Confused 22 year old