K-Designers Reviews

Where to begin. The entire company is based on lies. They lied to me to get me to come on board, and then asked me to lie to others to get them to come on board. This is the same strategy for all their positions (with the exception of installers). If you as an employee begin to figure out the system and start making some money, they change the deal. Extremely high pressure (if you wanna get paid at least). They use statistics in their sales pitches that are skewed substantially (i.e. "The average saleperson who has been with the company for 2 years makes a 6 figure income." That is true. Of course what they don't tell you is that there are less than 10 sales people who have been there more than 2 years, out of a sales force of four or five hundred. Also, that the average duration of a sales career at K is 3-9 months because most can't afford the travel costs since they aren't making squat. That leads to massive turn-over! Here is how things work: Recruiters lie to candidates with misleading statistics to get them in for an interview. Managers lie to candidates about what they will make to get them to start work. Call center reps lie to potential customers to set appointments because that is how they get paid. Sales reps lie to potential customers to try to make a sale. Customers end up pissed off because they realize they were lied to, OR the eventual sucker buys the overpriced product. When I interviewed, the manager and assistant manager who hired me, both quit in the week between my interview and my start date. The new manager (VP's son-in-law) started a month after I did. When I was hired I told them I was only available Mon-Fri. 3 months into my employment, I was informed that I had to work Saturdays as well, and if I couldn't we could "Shake hands and part as friends." Apparently, they expected me to agree, because when I came back and gave my notice, they started back-pedaling like crazy and told me "Just say you will work Saturdays, and then be sick every Saturday." Gives you a good idea of the culture there.

Let's start with the greasy 80's sales tactics. They actually teach you to say things like "put er there!" and "whadaya say!" And my favorite "if you act now!" After that, you're taught to barge into the prospects home like a snake oil salesman using two giant bags as battering rams. After they teach you sales tactics that would make Billy Maze roll over in his grave like a rotisserie chicken, they send you hundreds of miles away to leads that would rather spit on you than let you in the door. Management will tell you that they don't cherry pick the leads, but it's funny how only 2 or 3 people on the sales team actually make money while the turnover rate is in the stratosphere. Cherry pick the good leads and give the short timers the crap...makes sense to me. Twice in one week I was sent to appointments where the prospect lived in a nursing home. I've been sent to siding appointments where the home is solid brick and the owner has zero recollection of ever making an appointment. As mentioned in other reviews, a lot of the appointments are for people with no job and no money. I've been to single wide trailers where the telemarketer told the prospect the government would pay for their windows just so they could set the appointment and get an extra 10 bucks on their check. This all sounds terribly negative, but I speak the truth. I'm broke, my car is jacked, I have an ulcer and I owe K over a grand in draws. Unless you are a blood relative to Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong... Run away from K as fast as you can.