Campaigners Reviews

Pros

meeting people involved in the public policy process, and those running for public office like for president or judge or congressman.

Cons

Salary, salary, salary. Also lack of benefits. Difficult to work with management. Long hours. Poor office conditions. Political junk in our work.

Advice to Senior Management

I do not have any information or advice to management for people working on campaigns in Boston or elsewhere. Just work hard.

Pros

If you want to not be home 4 out of 5 days a week, this is the place for you.

Cons

no structured training, no feedback or negative feedback only. Always traveling, obscure rules to follow. Your work hours are always increasing with no additional compensation.

Advice to Senior Management

try training your managers in what they needto do. Dont just give them a laptop a couple of programs and expect them to know hat to do. Learn to manage your way out of a paperbag before you try to manage others.

Pros

A very high hourly wage, $18.50. There are no sales quotas to meet. Training is easy and accessible through their website.

Cons

Not allowed any days off. Managers have no trust in their employees, so you are mystery shopped every week. Have to sit through b/s hype conference call every other week.

Advice to Senior Management

Have more faith in your staff

Pros

As a Weekend Warrior, you can come and go to your assigned site as you are scheduled. Usually on the weekends and on Fridays. You get a lot of product training on the company you are a "Representative" for and cool gadgets and promotional stuff to showcase for customers and help out the sales floor at the store.

Cons

You are mostly on your own during working hours. There is no sales incentive for the employees even though you are encouraged to do so, just the same hourly wage. You are mostly just a product feedback tool for the Represented company.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure to keep an eye out for the lazy employees. They will usually clock in late and leave early while saying they were there for the full duration of time.

Pros

This type of work is great for somebody that enjoys flexibility. It's a great way to build customer service skills, sales and learn about brands. Pay varies depending on the product and expertise required.

Cons

The industry became very competitive. This type of work used to be lucrative but the level of pay went down and the expectations went up. I felt the energy changed at this organization. It became less of a team, and more of an impersonal, formalized job.

Advice to Senior Management

Honor those delegates who strive to make your company look great. They keep you in business!

Pros

Great hourly pay and commission. No pressure from store management and flexible time management. You can do stock counts any time.

Cons

Job gets boring after a while because some hours there are no customers at all, and I have to stand there in order to get paid. Time past pretty slow

Advice to Senior Management

More moving up opportunities could be nice. For example, part time manager and events organizer, some positions that offer more challenges

Pros

Was a great place to work 3 years ago.

Cons

Mass Lay offs in December 2007 just in time for the holidays. Recruiting just involved reading a script to applicants. They valued quantity over quality of people we hiring.

Advice to Senior Management

Get organized. Every week some manager was coming up with a great new way to recruit. Don't promote people because they just kiss ass.