Vendor - Anonymous employee Chicago Marketing Employee Review

1.0
16 Nov 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are nice and easy to get along with.

Cons

Everything! It’s a pyramid scheme! It looks like a nice office but when you start, they finally show you the “office” and it’s just a room. Have to be to the office at 8am for an hour then drive usually far to go to a store. The ad I responded to said 80-85k a year salary. When I was given an offer letter, it said 1 month of training at $600 a week also after 5 sign ups a week, every one after that is plus $150. That wasn’t true whatsoever. Also, if you are 30 seconds late, your paycheck gets cut in half and got so far behind on things becaus I didn’t get a paycheck that was over $350 until my 6th paycheck. And that’s after being there for NINE WEEKS. So be prepared to fall behind and have no money. And the actual job is not “helping big companies campaign and helping people make educated purchases” its standing in a Costco or Sam’s club or Menards and talking to every person that walk by you and trying to get them to sign up for something. You only get “trained” for a few days and after that, you’re on your own. No one ever answers you. And if you have something happening in your personal life, they don’t care unless you’ve been there for years and are higher management. They’re CONSTANTLY hiring people. And CONSTANTLY losing people. They say it’s to train for management. Well, everyone there is there for management. It’s a pyramid scheme and if you do actually make it to management, you’re expected to move somewhere and open your own office somewhere. There is also absolutely no PTO, no paid sick days, no insurance, no 401k and you’re also driving all over god’s green earth.

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Chicago Marketing Response
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Dear Reviewer, Thank you for taking the time to review us, in reference to a pyramid scheme that is an illegal business practice. This means in this business model you pay to work here and make money off people you bring into the company. We do not have anyone pay to work here, we provide a paycheck with a W-2. I would also like to comment on the fact that during training you are offered a base salary in all of our ads it is listed. We do not offer anyone a base salary starting off at 80+k a week. In any sales and marketing company there is turnover especially working with over 10 fortune 100 clients. I am not sure if this review was written by someone who actually works here or worked here. If this was genuine you would know benefits and PTO kicks in after your probationary period is completed as listed in the offer letter you received. I would love to read over your offer letter and review your employment dates with us to confirm this information is correct due to none of the information in this review being factual. We hope you find what you are looking for or the company you actually were employed with. Feel free to reach out to me at hr@chicagomarketinginc.com

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