Pros
Very welcoming, fun people, (sometimes) cool customers, travel opportunities...
Cons
Presence Events and Thrive Events are basically the same company with the same intentions. When I started this job, I thought I was the luckiest person ever. They make you feel incredibly welcomed. However, EVERYTHING was sugar-coated. Getting into the position itself takes 1-2 weeks with training for systems to make you a better salesperson. Expect yourself to be working for 2 hours for 3 days each. Once you finally are suitable to go to the field, their promise of 600 a week and 40 hours full time is completely FALSE. On the field, you have to share everything you make, sale, and do yourself with the person you worked the same day as or the person you are working with. This is called ‘law of averages’ in which the person who you get stuck with can completely do nothing and still get a piece of what you make split in how much hours they work and you work. Besides that, on your ‘paid breaks’ you HAVE to resource with different employees in the company about your day or count inventory, which means you are technically still working. Other than that, you can expect to work 11-12-hour day shifts, standing and selling in one spot the entire day. Adding onto that, you are expected to make the company an outstanding amount of money while being paid little of what you made them. For example, for a JA campaign (which is a campaign where usually you make the most money) you are expected to make a goal of 2,000 NCR for them. The NCR is the bosses 80% cut of what they are making out of the whole campaign that you are busting your bottom for. Out of the 80%, you get a lousy 12-11-10%. You also get to count on the boss to receive the correct pay since she hands write the check herself. Also, remember the paid 2 hours for 3-day training? Well, they do training on the field as well when you qualify BUT in my experience, they DID NOT train me in everything I needed to know and they insisted in throwing me into things because “you seem smart enough to figure it out for yourself.” For example, I was training for a WHIPIT campaign and they threw me into JA last minute where I had to teach myself how to open and set up an entire booth. Talk about running around the in the entire Costco with your head cut off. Also, be expected for the boss to completely NOT help you! You can count on her to NOT answer her phone anytime you need help with something. But by all means, she will definitely message you if she has a problem with something she doesn’t like or if she needs you to cover a shift. AND if you have a family emergency, BE EXPECTED to be taken off the schedule by the boss herself for an entire week and BE EXPECTED to have her not message you any days within that week until last minute about “if you want your job, come to meet me tomorrow morning.” ??? I have personally moved out of my way to pick up shifts, cover shifts, ask for more work, and never called a day off and one sudden emergency happens and they treat you like complete trash??? Besides that, if you ever question them about anything, like if you ask about ‘pyramid scheme,’ they get super defensive and give you vague answers, OR they’ll kind of mention it out of nowhere so you wouldn’t have to question it. Just like many other questions about pay, hours, things about the company… etc. and if it is about the pay, well ‘it’s your fault’ you didn’t sell enough pal! But you can be guaranteed to work on your days off to have someone train you, participate in company outings, pick up side work, train someone else, inventory count, paperwork related, morning meetings, conference calls… EVERYTHING. If this job description is something you are looking for, be free to apply for them but you’ve been warned! That’s why most people in the pictures they use on their website do not correlate with the people they have in the office now because they got used up until the point where they have quitted or had similar experiences.
