Goji Reviews

You wont get paid what they owe you. You will never have job security. Moving up in the company is WORSE then entry level. The ability to "make more money" comes at the cost of your personal life and sanity. CEO is clueless. Details: This company is all over the place. No structure, no values, no good. They waste money like crazy on really stupid events and silly "upgrades" to the offices all while their CEO brags about how much money is being invested, but cant pay their employees correctly or hold onto intelligent and quality sales agents or mangers. I never once got the amount I was supposed to for bonus, or hourly pay, without having to meet with finance half a dozen times for them to correct it, and then sometimes they still don't get it right. Speaking of their CEO. He is always flashing his money around, putting his credit card down at bars near by, hiring some very pretty but unbelievably incompetent women. (The place is full of sexual harassment). He is trying to run a business like a frat house (Think Entertainment 720 from Parks and Rec on NBC). The company was built by a partner of his (a very intelligent guy) who left the company in the CEO's hands. The CEO went to school for politics and now he is trying to play the business game. I would not be surprised if the board edges him out in the next couple years. After the CEO flipped out and sent an email to all employees essentially saying "if you dont like it here then come see me and I'll give you money to get the hell out" (The board later made him apologize for this). A month later we were given a speech about putting in our time, and if we try hard for the company they will try hard for us, and how he wants to see everyone grow with the company and is excited for the future. One month later they laid off 15% of their staff, demoted most of their managers, made them take pay cuts and took away overtime, all in one day. But they had the $$ to produce and shoot a commercials with paid actors! They will tell you what you want to hear, but will never deliver, and are more then happy to lie to your face to keep you subordinate. Managers actively steal good ideas and present them as their own, to try and get a leg up on one another. They also try to "poach" employees and customers from other companies (they actually use that term). Did the customer call actually trying to get in touch with Allstate? No Problem: Managers will force you to "Tell them you work for Allstate too and that you found a better rate then they have and force them to take it before they can check with Allstate" that is the most common deceitful practice. They do it to all the big companies (especially Geico who they have a vendetta against) but not even close to the only one. They continue to hire and train some very poorly qualified individuals so you will work with some nice people but a lot of mind-numbingly stupid people as well. So if you consider yourself ghetto fabulous, smell like stale cigarettes, dirty diapers and halitosis, as well as having a no semblance of self respect, this is definitely the place for you! I have only scratched the surface of the horror that working at Consumer United (now Goji) reeks upon ones life. I worked there over 3 years, and I can honestly say the day I left that back stabbing, crumbling, joke of a company was one of the best days I have had in the last 10 years of my life. The future looks so bright! Like I had just survived storming the beaches of Normandy and was heading home. I have friends who still work there, and they all say the same thing "I wish I had gotten laid off, it is so horrible here. I hate my life. Now I have to save up as much as I can which is impossible because they don't pay us correctly, just so I can quit and reset my brain after doing things the wrong way for so long." If you are considering working for this company my advice to you is, get a gun, load it, place it in your mouth and pull the trigger instead. You will have a better quality of life as a brainless, paraplegic, lump of flesh or simply dead, then you will working for Goji/Consumer United.