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Complaint Review: Kirby company - Tuscaloosa Alabama

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  • Reported By: Gabriel — Tuscaloosa Alabama United States
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  • Kirby company 2205 9th ave. Tuscaloosa , Alabama United States
  • Phone: 205-462-3268
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  • Category: JOB Scam

Kirby company LWA inc. Tricking people to work for them without any payment like they promised. Not a professional place of business. Tuscaloosa Alabama

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So I was looking for a new job. I wanted to make more than what I was making so i wasn’t always living check to check. I was on an online job board and found "simply solutions” with the pay being $1,000-$1,800 a month. And to me that was what I was looking for. So I applied not expecting to to get a call from them. But needless to say I did. I went in for the first interview and Brittany explained what the job would entitle but was very vague and wouldn’t exactly tell us what we would be doing. I asked about the payment and she said it would be $900 every two weeks and that would be the base pay without making any sales. She told me to

come back the next day and i was hired on and she gave me details of when orientation would start. I still didn’t know what i was selling. But In my head I was thinking i found the dream job. Day 2: After everyone left they made us watch a video with Lindsay Vonn as the spokesperson of the company. I still didn’t know what we were selling but based off the video they had a variety of products. I was told I would never have to knock on a door and I would have preset appointments. I asked what time these appointments would be set up, I was told 10, 2 and 4 and sometimes 7 pm. I was supposed to do three demos a day at least 5 days a week.

This should result in at least three sales. They told us out of every 3 demos we do at least 1 would buy. But that would never happen. In most cases I was in fact being put in peoples homes. But I was assured that the homes were being prescreened and pre qualified, and would of course be in the "nice" neighborhoods because we only wanted to target those who could really afford it and have good credit. I was thinking i would be in safe area. Since they pre set up the appointments. And pre screened them as well. Brittany(the lady who brought us all in, the DPS) told us that it takes three people to make the sale. The first is the one who set the

appointment, me the demo person, and the mgr who comes in the closes the deal - so I do not have to do any negotiations. And we all get an even split 1/3 for all, Depending on how much we sold it for. So it would differ for each person. I asked how long we would be in the homes. I was told sometimes an hour or two. It sounded okay. Day 3: we find out we have three full days of training that is unpaid but required so we can learn how to demo the Kirby. We are given a stack of paperwork to sign and contracts to sign and I ask for a copy. They said it would all be in a folder for us. At first they were reluctant but I told them I would need it for

my 1099. After bickering with them they finally gave me a copy. That same day at the end we would get our badges. They collected our drivers licenses and took copies of them. Used the photos from our License and put them on a badge with our names and gave us the title "Dealer". That was news to me. No one ever said they were using me to deal anything. This was misleading in hiring me. That raised a red flag for me but the money seemed promising still. First official day: they told us to arrive at 8:45 am and that the meetings would start at 9 am sharp. The meetings would be like a pep rally and i felt uncomfortable. But That could be

farther from the truth. I would get there as instructed at 8:45 am and it would be 9. The meeting hasn’t started. 10-15 minutes go by and still the meeting hasn’t started. At this point I was irritated. Why have us come in early if you aren’t going to start on the time you set yourself. They keep throwing at you and follwing up with no body can make you do anything you don't want to do. Being as that we are independent contractors. But if you want to see a penny you better show up and do what you are told. I did get that out of orientation. Anyway, after wasting 2 to 3 hours in a dumb meeting(Yes that’s how long them sometimes are).

At the end we are assigned to a team and put in a van with 3 or 4 other dealers, a team leader/manager and a canavasser (which from the training I understood was going out to fill in extra appointments between the already preset appointments) - I was wrong). We pile in the van with people you don’t know. I have no clue where we are going. We go to gas station to fill up before heading out. In my head I’m thinking after this we will be out in the field. I was wrong and lied to again. We would sometimes stop for hours (still in Tuscaloosa) wether it be for food or for them to have a smoke break. And by then it would be 11 or 12. We literally wasted

3 hours just siting in a van waiting for them to get food or whatever else they "had” to get. Once we were on the road and left Tuscaloosa I would ask where we would be going. No one would say. Everyone was quiet. It was the most awkward car ride I’ve Been in. No one was friendly or tried to get know us since we were the new group. We finally get to where we needed to be (btw we stopped twice so they could get more snacks and cigarettes). By then it’s 2 or 3 I’m the afternoon and we’ve done nothing at all. We finally start knocking. I asked about the appointments. Everyone laughts and says don't believe anything Brittany told you. There are

no present appointments. You have to knock doors. And that’s if we get in the door. My first day was miserable. They would put us in these houses or trailers that to me couldn’t even afford what we were selling yet they made us knock anyway. I feel like we were targeting people who could be talked into getting something they didn’t want. They wanted us to target older couples or the elderly. Now this is where I get screwed. Remember how I was told we all got an even share by Brittany. Well that was an all out lie. The one who knocks you in gets a set amount for getting you in the door, so they really only care about Getting you in.

The team leader gets paid if you get in as well and sell one. After i do the demo i had to sit there and listen to our team lead push and bully some elderly person or keep on badgering them and refusing to leaving and take no for an answer (now my instructions are I have to keep my mouth shut when they come in to negotiate). We explain to our team lead what they could afford(that’s if they could) and they always try to suck as much money out of the customers to help them get paid. Half the time if I did sell one it would be the lowest amount. They had theee types of loans. A,B, and C. Even though they would hassle and try to get

them to pay high payments it wouldn’t work. So if I sold anything they would be C loans. And in my case that means I don’t get paid at all but my manager Tony does. It doesn’t matter what price I sell them for if it’s a C loan I don’t get paid but he does. It’s totally unethical and unprofessional as a business to do that. We would go out all day for 10-12 hours being stuck in a van going Into people’s home trying to sell them the Kirby for high price to help themselves get paid except us, the "dealer”. I was with them for about a month. I never got paid even though i sold multiple Kirby’s. Needless to say I’ve been scammed into believeing that I would get

paid $900 when in actuality you don’t get anything unless someone else gets some of it. If you ever plan on working here or hear about it don’t go at all. They will waste your time and money over and over again. Don’t believe what they tell you.

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