Don't even consider working here. It was an unbelievably negative, pointless experience.
New people are set up to fail. They use a milestone-based commission, but give you scraps for an account base so you can't reach it. There is no incentive to succeed. I made more calls and brought in more new customers than everyone else combined, but it meant nothing.
There is no training program. There is no professionalism. And there is certainly no upward mobility. You could work here for 20 years and you'd never make assistant manager. They keep a base of four salespeople, but bump it up to six when times are good. Then they lay off the extra two as soon as there's no magic oil boom (a typical mentality in this city). So even if you get a job here and enjoy it, it won't last long. Ability and effort are no match for tenure and seniority here. There's no way to get into the clique anyway.
The manager is useless. He doesn't have the ability to train, mentor, teach, lead, or inspire. So what's the point of him? He sits in his ivory tower with the door closed, pecking at the keyboard with two fingers while making personal calls all day. He's a Simpsons character. He's also incapable of criticizing men over 40, or women of any age. So if you're in one of those two groups, he'll at least be nice to you for a while, probably.
This is a failing company in a boring industry.
Life is too short for Texcan.
