I worked in part of the Hepp Org and in California, under what’s now part of The Phoenix Group in Fairfield, NJ. I was often a top rep on my campaign and had a large team. So, why did I leave? It has something to do with business ethics.
After my experience, I’d advise you not work in this business if you find any of the following behavior or scenarios inappropriate . . .
1. A 30 something year old assistant manager in Sean’s LA office sleeps with a teenage girl on his team . . . and gets her pregnant . . . about 15 feet from where the boss sleeps.
2. Your boss actually argues with you that when a girl says “NO” she usually means “Yes” . . . and then tries to prove it to you.
3. Your boss refers to the admin as the “third base coach” in reference to her sexual activity before her boyfriend.
4. Your boss says to you, “I want to f*k you!”
5. Your boss tells you that every guy in the business wants to f*k you.
6. Your boss refers to a girl on your team as “c*-dumpster”
7. The new admin freaks out in response to the pornographic photos floating across your boss’s laptop.
8. There is no HR.
9. You hear a 19 yr old pot head slur a speech about how he’s going to be a millionaire in 4 years . . . and he’s convinced that it’s going to happen . . . even though the manager has been doing his job for years and barely breaks even.
10. A superior calls you late at night to get you to come over to his hotel room.
11. You tell a superior you aren’t interested and he is then a complete d*k to you
12. Your boss asks you or the admin if you’ve ever kissed a girl. . . . or asks if you’d have a threesome with one of the Cydcor employees.
13. Your boss says he wants to f*k Vera
14. Your manager and another manager frequently joke in front of you about one of them screwing the others admin.
15. Your manager cheats on his wife with an employee.
16. A manager/owner asks you for a 1 on 1 . . . you think it is because you high rolled the office that day by making $250 . . . you then realize that he simply wants to hit on you.
17. Your boss tells you that you should “expect” to be hit on at work and, when you ask why, he says “Have you looked in the mirror? You don’t look like [them]”
18. You complain about office behavior and your boss tells you your idea of a professional environment “doesn’t exist.”
19. You lose money out of your commission to pay people who make you nothing (this is true in some offices).
20. At a manager conference, a guy asks if he should consider firing someone who does drugs on the job
Furthermore, my time in this business taught me never to work for someone who . . .
A. Tells you he’s changing locations for a great new opportunity when it’s really because he can’t make overhead.
B. Doesn’t pay you when he says he will
C. Teaches you to fudge #’s in Merlin and yells at you when you do it correctly.
D. Owes you money
E. Lies to you
F. Lies to a new hire right in front of you
G. Preaches about a great future and then plays video games instead of working
H. Tells you he is hitting the field and goes home
Good Luck!