Embrace the suck! - Recensione dipendente - Outbound Marketer presso Power Home Remodeling

--Ridiculous frat boy culture. Almost all of the employees (at least in marketing) are male and the company preys on young guys that either never went to college or went to college and have delusions of grandeur about "making 6 figures in your first year!" Very crass, crude culture is not only accepted but actually encouraged in marketing department and many of the employees regularly acted in a very misogynistic and condescending manner from the safety of their marketing vans since company favorites do not get punished. Employees have been caught with drugs and drug paraphernalia on company premises and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. --Disingenuous to a certain degree, both with customers and employees. It's the running joke in the marketing department that homeowners usually have no idea what they're getting into when they sign up for a "simple, easy, no obligations, free estimate" when they're going to be looking at a 3+ hour sales presentation. When interviewing for the position they didn't actually disclose the nature of the position (door-to-door sales) until about 2-3 interviews deep. They also purported the required metrics to be "super easy, anyone can attain them consistently," and yet while working there it became apparent that that was not the case. Many marketers fell quite short of those metrics on a regular basis and the ones that maintained higher numbers usually did so through shadier means (setting appointments with renters, "strong-arming homeowners," etc.). --Lots of emotional manipulation. Knocking on doors in the snow is not fun, and they know it, yet they parade around like it is to try and keep morale high using motivational videos, ex-Navy Seal sayings and inspiration IG posts, etc. and if you don't sip the kool-aid you'll soon find yourself under the scrutiny of management. I remember a couple instances where our department was told that if their van hit a certain appointment count by a certain time then they'd get to leave early for the day, yet when that happened and the team was excited to go home management would get mad and say that we weren't working hard enough or weren't dedicated enough because we should *want* to stay longer anyway. Also, everything is scripted. From interactions with homeowners at the door all the way to your job interview and personal check-ins there is a system in place and you'd better not try and step outside of it. --Horrible work/life balance. While it was eventually revealed toward the end of the interview process that I would be working 6-day work weeks every-other-week (for the same salary as the 5-day work weeks of course), the person I interviewed with swore up-and-down that it would only be 8-hour work days and that those 8 hours would include all meetings, travel time, etc. This was simply not the case. Driving out to remote neighborhoods and driving all the way back to the office at the end of the day, pointless mandatory department meetings, 1-on-1s, performance reviews, etc. all conducted outside of your normal work hours was demanding enough, but on top of that you were pressured to stay "plugged in" to Power 24/7 by keeping up with GroupMe marketing message groups, group texts, personal texts, etc. at all hours of the day and night. You literally eat/sleep/breathe Power in the "marketing" department. I could go on, but the gist is that the "marketing" department was just not a good experience whatsoever. The biggest disappointment there is that it seems like other departments of the company can offer a pretty different experience and I tried to hold out to make that transition but eventually it just became too much.