Vantaggi
If you have no experience, this job will get you sales experience, not a career. Another pro is they give you 1 day off instead of no days off, but your one day off usually means go into a meeting and have them review your sales job and tell you that you need to work harder.
Svantaggi
They will tell you what you want to hear. The owner is trained to tell you the exact things to move you onto the second round interview. In the second round interview they will read off of a script and tell you what you want to hear so you will take the job. The first day the person that did your second round, will meet you for coffee to pre-empt you on all the things they do so you won't question them later. Then, you will go into the office where they will only introduce you to the people that will tell you all the right things to keep you coming back. From there they will teach you the "systems" for marketing where they'll repeatedly tell you that you are only marketing inside a Kroger, not selling, but in fact, you are actually selling the entire time. Then comes time for a meeting. Usually the meeting is really positive and uplifting to motivate you to stand inside of a Kroger for over 8 hours every day. Usually the first week you won't go into the field unless the entire office quits and then they'll disguise it as an opportunity to show your true leadership skills. A typical day for someone who has been working there for a while is be the first one in the office, usually 7:30-7:45am, teach all the systems and answer all of the negative questions about the business and they answer with a spin on it. Go through the meeting, after the meeting you will fill your car up with as much inventory as possible to make are you don't run out and go home early, drive to the Kroger and stand there trying to sell whatever product, usually heat pads and pillows. If you don't sell at least $800 worth of product they expect you to stay late and "go the extra mile" without proper compensation for that extra time. Then you go to mandatory dinners that you pay for, not the company. These dinners usually go until 9:30-10pm and repeat every day. On Saturdays they expect you to be in the office at 7am sharp and work that day until 6-8:30pm with little to no break time. The pay is $8/hour plus compensation only if you have already sold $600 worth of product. The paystubs are vague so you can't really tell if you've been paid properly or not. If you do show up early or stay late they will not compensate you. Everyone here is brainwashed and will try to make you believe that having a 9-5 job is the worst thing in the world. They will try to convince you if you stay with they company you can retire at 30. They make you get on conference calls more than 5x a week during your personal time too. Every Thursday the conference calls are about how they got by screwing people over and saying you can do the same too, but in reality you can't because the practice is too old and the markets are saturated and not to mention people HATE being bothered while grocery shipping. No work/life balance. If you have kids don't apply, if you want to make friends at work don't apply, they don't let you talk to anyone who hasn't been there more than 3 months.
