Vector Marketing Employee Reviews about "flexible hours"

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- You start out by booking appointments with family and friends family, which might be difficult for some people who don’t have many people to reach out to, but if you do, this is a pro!

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There are no cons that I can think of because unlike my other jobs, my superiors are helpful and make time to be available when I need them. My hours are flexible and leave me the option to stop what I'm doing and take care of business when I please. I have more freedom this way and I can work from the comfort safety of my home.

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Can't think of any yet

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It works under a pyramid model, so if you continue to get clients that have the product, they will continue volunteering people who most likely already have the product and it becomes very difficult to sell.

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Weird work hours and not as 'flexible' as they may say

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The hours are only flexible if you don't wanna make a lot of money. You only get paid by appointment, not by hour, so if you have a 2 hour long appointment, you'll still only get 15 bucks. If your commission from the sale is less than that of the base pay or if you didn't sell anything at all. You have to do A LOT of work to get an appointment. You have to call people that you know to get appointments. They don't pay you for training. The training is exhausting. And you spend about 6 hours at training for 3 whole days. There are also advanced training sessions that you must go to.

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Wow! where do I begin. Once you do the interview they don't inform you of how the base pay works or what commission you receive as a new representative. So the pay IS NOT per hour. The pay is per appointment or presentation if that's a better term. Now they don't do cold calls. They have you sell or show to your friends and relatives under the pretense of "they don't have to buy anything because you still get paid to show it". The problem with this is, they have you personalize the presentation by sharing your personal goals and dreams and tie it to the job. So basically if the person doesn't purchase anything during the presentation they aren't "supporting your goals and dreams". This gets worse because again you are presenting to people you know and have a bond with. On top of that the products are expensive! Majority of people can't afford these products even with the highly promoted 5 pay. The more affordable ones are single items like a spatula spreader. Which cost like what 60 something. Even if it's forever guarantee that's lot of money upfront on a spatula. Secondly at the end of the presentation they tell you to guilt trip the customer which are your friends and relatives if they refuse to give you referrals. Uhm, No! That's private information regardless if you tell people that they will have the chance to contact them before you call them to advertise Cutco, they have no reason to believe you. Don't even get me started on the unpaid 3 day training which is 5-6 hours of your precious time especially as a student in high-school or college. Where you have assignments to complete like essays. Did I mention that commission is only 10%. So 10% of a spatula spreader is only $6. So an entire presentation of an hour and some change to only get $6 plus a base pay of $17. Nope nope nope. Ridiculous it would take me 3 or 4 presentstions to actually make a decent amount in a day. By the way I used spatula as an example for your family trying to "support you" and buying at least one item. They might as well gift you $60 without purchasing an item. On top of that they get you to refer your personal contacts on the third day of training when you haven't even gotten experience on the job. So you're still in this fantasy land not knowing that the job sucks and how it affects your relationships with people. I don't like playing games by emotionally guilt tripping my relatives or friends or making them do something uncomfortable like sharing their personal contacts or anyone's information without their permission in a form so I can get paid. Then ontop of that being guilt tripped by a manager when I only received 3 referrals when they want at least 10. That's pushing it! All in all you are better off having an hourly paid job rather than a measly $17 per presentation job where you are doing extensive marketing for a company that doesn't really care about you or your friends and family that they take advantage of. They even harrased my friend after she said she wasn't interested in the job. A receptionist reached out to her saying I referred her which I did on my third day of training. When she told them she wasn't interested they asked her why. I told her what to say to get out of the situation. "I'm not jnterested in having a job right now." I told her to block her. Which she did only to have another manager contact her afterwards about the job. He contacted her right after she blocked the first person. That's harassment Vector. You pull young people in and exploit them and their friends because they lack experience and or are desperate for a job. That's disappointing and disgusting. People considering vector find a better company to work for.

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Miscommuncation some hidden agendas in co-workers gets boring

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Very time consuming with their demos and it’s hard to start with friends and family

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Not being able to have a set to demo for people but its not that bad.