This company is a pyramid scheme. I would know because I worked there for 3 agonizing and anxiety laden months. Yeah the managers make alot of money because they drank the "juice" and kissed alot of butt.
Hardly and of their sales candidates reap what they sow. They are disrespected, yelled at, forced to get the MANAGERS LUNCH everyday. You get into work at 7:15 and you would think by 5:30 they would call it a day...OH NO, thats just when the managers decide to do an ARPO FEAST!!!
An ARPO feast is when each candidate digs into their files and pulls up all old resumes of people they never places and calls them. They say that they wanted to check in and see how things were going, if they were still looking for a job, if so-they would pitch a fake job or a job that they might not even be fit for, and also find out where they have been interviewing and the managers name.
IF they are not looking, they say-OH cool,where did you take a job? Who hired you? They ask questions to get "LEADS" so they can call more managers and push more candidates on them. ALl of this is done so that information can be gathered, but I have never seen BOYLSTON place someone they have already interviewed before once that person has been "FILED". When they bring IT candidates into the office and interview them, they then as a team go over the person and decide if they are HOT CANDY...if so, they focus on placing that person...if not they are filed!!
So this ARPO feast could take until about 8:30pm. A 12-13 hour day...all so that you can have your managers be on your back all day long and bark at you like you are an insignificant piece of crap.
You get home and you are so tired that you go to bed at 9pm and are expected back in the office the next day at 7:15. Once you get to the office the next day you will walk over to another company that STRIDE AND ASSOCIATES OWNS...and have a company meeting there. All the while people are stealing leads, and candidate information during the meeting. It is very sneaky, manipulative and competitive in all the wrong ways.
Most of the higher management in Stride and Associates have all relocated from other offices so they really have no friends in the city they are living in besides the people they work with. Managers make their sales people their b*****s and your always doing things for them, like getting lunch, or coffee, or buying the office dunkin donuts if you are 2 minutes late past 7:15. YOU also have to go to HAPPY HOUR EVERY THURSDAY, and if you have other plans, dont even think about it. Apparently it is disrespectful to want to spend anytime with your family, friends and significant others.
Over the 3 months I was working there at least 7-10 people either quit or started and quit either that day, or within a week. HIGH TURNOVER RATE IN THIS COMPANY!!!
Stride and Associates is not for people who value themselves and their quality of life...because there is no quality of life if you work here!
go to www.strideandassociates.com to see all of the ALIAS NAMES they use under their company to disguise their corruption.
Anonymous-philadelphia
philadelphia, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.