Pros
They are aggressive. A lot of this comes from how young ownership is and the new money they keep seeing come in- but it couldn’t happen without determined leadership and strategy. So growth as a company is happening and will continue inevitably. Certain earning expectations seem a bit more achievable here for the salesman, if you work hard. What I mean by that is other summer sales promise every person will earn $100,000, and no one hardly does. At Aptive, I would consistently see and hear about hitting or exceeding those types of goals. Guys bought houses on a summer’s earnings. They’re the good ones, but I believe the payment package and sales numerics favor the sales teams. Ownership wants sales to catch fire at any cost, and consequently the salespeople are rewarded for it.
Cons
If you work at Corporate, the disparity of earnings and responsibilities between a VP and their underlings, associates, “team”, etc….is Preposterous with a capital “P”…it’s insane. They all drive new Teslas and cater lunch to themselves every day, have their cliques, you get the idea. It’s their high six-figured salaries and mansions to our FIXED $15/hr and scraping by in a cheap rental type of situation. And its not like they have to manage that many people. We are talking even less than 10 people under them in certain cases. They do have responsibility, of course, but errors, even blunders are overlooked by their administrative circle of Executives and other VPs and strategy can take a U-turn for an unexplainable reason to make up for it. They know they have the best and hungriest (poor) sales guys out there trying no matter what. I personally experienced the most stress in any position at over 23 years in the workforce and I should have flipped burgers for 2 years, at least in fast food they would recognize my enormous effort. It is just my experience. But they piled work on top of me- that logistically was impossible to accomplish, instead of hiring an actual team of individuals, you know, another employee- more money. I paid my dues, and went through my 2nd year, without a penny’s raise. I brought it up for months, had promises broken, was offended by the 28 cents/hour they came up with as a grand reward for my never-ending willingness, and they knew it so they finally came to the conclusion that the job itself, “wasn’t the right fit for me”, yeah- after 2 years lol. So, the compensation disparity is aggravating and downright unethical really. But also, as a company, the operations happening on the ground, and the operations happening at corporate, are not aligned by business philosophy, by strategy, and often is openly opposed and they ignore corporate counsel, but there is no arbitrator or channel to address such things to create consistency. Otherwise you’re a divided house and I don’t see this getting fixed without more maturity in leadership.
