Pros
Every single year the company has blown out their Travel Budget so they ask (tell) all of their Outside Sales AM's to stay home from September to the end of the year. You are asked to return phone calls and e-mails. You are able to travel with your phone and computer to Florida, Hawaii etc......and nobody knows!! This is a huge benefit as you can use all of your vacation time earlier in the year and still get your monthly car allowance while you are told to stay home. In the end you get about 5 months vacation!!
Cons
The approval process is dysfunctional, very dysfunctional. You have to get everyone in Corporate to approve everything so they justify their jobs. If you just got rid of this layer the company would take off. everyone in Corporate is programmed to just say NO, NO and No again. Or we can't do that!