Terrible job for a sales person! - Uniform Sales Representative Cintas Employee Review

1.0
Oct 27, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing car package. $355 for the car, $54 for maintenance and $50 for your own cellphone. They also put your car in a lease back program, which means they lost you under their insurance. Be warned that limits what you are allowed to do with YOUR car. They also pay for your gas (if you get 24mpg) with a company credit card. Make sure you get the cheapest gas around though.

Cons

They are hands down the cheapest company out there. They refuse to use the AC is the summer so the office is hot! If you leave a light on the whole office gets an email calling you out. They will not spend money on keeping office equipment current. They give you an old beat up tablet style hp with a broken CRM. The sales process is dirty because you promise the world and cannot deliver a sandwich. Service will screw up about 90% of your installs, which makes you look foolish in front of your customer. You will have plenty of days where you have to ride on trucks picking up dirty uniforms and bar towels. Those days about 25 -35 per year you have to be at the plant for 5 am. The trucks are usually old and without AC as well. On Monday and Wednesday you have to be at the plant for 7 am for a meeting then to make 200 cold calls for the week. You cannot leave until you make 8 appts each day. Most people are so sick of you calling they just hang up. The "Golden Hours" are 7:30-5:30. That means you must be in your territory those hours. You MUST have 16+ new presentations each week or you will be put on plan. During the interview process they make a lot of empty promises, such as getting you out of training early, or you'll make commission on everything you sell. They will also talk about bonuses that can get up to $30k quarterly (still haven't seen anyone get that). While you're an SRT the other rep that is sharing your territory is getting bonuses off of everything you sell. They are incentivized for your sales. They say this makes them help you, but what I have noticed is it makes them give you all the customers they don't want but still get paid for selling them. You have to go thru a mandatory 12 weeks of training where you will make little to no money at all. You will not be able to get on the auto package until you graduate training. While in training you are the managers secretary. Loading trucks, counting uniforms, doing fitting events, and working in the plant sorting nasty smelly maggot infested bar towels. Do not fall for the empty promises. RUN AWAY AND RUN FAST!!!

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