michael-abyss
Youngstown,#2Author of original report
Tue, January 26, 2010
Glad to finally see this company posted on here, considering it TOO is a descendant of the DS-Max/ Innovage, Granton/ Smart Circle hierarchy. Which, speaking of hierarchies, should bring to mind the symbol of the pyramid - alas; the scheme is displayed!
So much has been written on this site already about the DS-Max system, I need not go into the inner workings of Axiom Advertising, for, if ye search, ye shall find, and the truth ye shall know. I do suggest you become familiar with the truth because I N N O V A G E is where ALL sales jobs from BIG BIG BIG Corporative Businesses are being outsourced to. Home Depot, Disney, the list is HUGE. I encourage you to check out the website of "Smart Circle" and become educated. Basically, it's sales reps getting paid squalor to "promote" big businesses, when the big business should be providing excellent job opportunities for sales reps, they instead outsource the direct sales jobs to cheap sweatshop labor forces recruited by Innovage "owners". It's a rude awakening of what is to come here in America in the 21st century. It's already becoming extremely difficult to find a steady good paying job, increasingly the only "opportunity" available is at these awful offices across the country.
Anyway, to get to the point, I worked at AXIOM Advertising and actually enjoyed the "work". Yeah... truth (direct sales is fun and entertaining)! BUT, I didn't enjoy the "system". The pay was penile and to boot, Linda had the team leaders deduct 3-7% of our profits when we would settle up at the end of each day. She said the money was being put into a "security" account. However, these team leaders were horrible at math and money was just a floatin' around in some account that we had no access to. As for my "security", the numbers I had calculated did not match the numbers my team leader had calculated and therefore I smelt a rip-off. Hence the post on "rip-off report"! The dictatorship of Linda Barton drove me away. And now that I've been away a few Months, I can see how her manipulation techniques were working on me. I was actually planning to become a team leader, that was my goal. I needed to make more money, so I thought the logical step would be to rise up into the hierarchy. But the problem is, the higher you go in this pyramid, the more you have to lie and manipulate. LUCKILY, I got out with my dignity and integrity intact.
It's true, the longer you stay in this business, the harder your heart becomes. The colder you are to the people below you. Meaning, in order for you to advance, you have to manipulate those below you the same way those above you manipulate YOU!
Understand? It's a system where only the 3 people at the top are free and EVERYONE below them in all the independent offices across the Globe are mind controlled slaves.
Beware the tactics, don't get caught up into the greedy lifestyle they expect you to inhabit in order to get ahead in the "biz". Whether you work there already, heed my wisdom. And if you don't already work there... EXCELLENT! Do yourself and your Family a blessing... don't apply at AXIOM Advertising... or ANY Innovage affiliate office for that matter!