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Complaint Review: Johnson Marketing Insights - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
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1900 Greentree Road Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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Johnson Marketing Insights Don't be fooled, get a REAL job! Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
I think that it is important to start this report for all the recent college grads out there in the pittsburgh area or those lured into the city by this so called company.
I took a job with Johnson Marketing Insights right after college. It seemed like a good idea at the time (as does everything after graduating college). Worst mistake EVER!
If you do a job search RIGHT NOW on monster, careerbuilder for a marketing/sales job in the pittsburgh area, johnson marketing insights WILL come up! Something needs to be done about this! Sometimes they have over 10 listings for the same day! You'll find readings like: "Tired of Folding clothes? Great Sales Opportunity!" BS!
Everyday before work you would have to go into this office and do this freakin ridiculous drills with one another. Just like a freaking circus! You had to play games with one another. It was very funny. It was just like kindergarden all over again!
Those of you thinking about this job have to know one thing: your NEVER working for yourself! Your team leader pretty much rides your a*s until you get to a certain point when they can get a promotion. You also have to know that you get NO RESIDUALS! Guess who gets them? That's right the owner!
When I was there our client was Verizon. We went door to door in our Verizon jackets and Verizon Hats and NEVER WAS TOLD TO USE THE JOHNSON MARKETING INSIGHTS name.
Isn't this some type of misrepresentation!!!!?
My team leader was very good. She was a great manipulator, but very unethical. I believe as a salesman you have to build good relationships with customers. My team leader cared nothing about that. The only thing she cared about was getting the sale. I feel sorry for her if a customer actually called in to report her and remembered her name. SCREWED!
The owner/president was very nice. I can't blame him. He just wants to be successful as a business owner. So I can't really blame him. I blame the system. It would all be ok if everything is told to the employee out front!
There was also another owner there. We'll call him the "old navy guy". He had this wacked out haircut and acted like he was IT. I remember him talking to us about the "ladder" in the office one day. I could see right through him. He didn't care about us at all. He had this attitude like "hey im successful and if you want to be, you have to do exactly what i did and if you dont, your not gonna be successful" What a piece of s**t he was!
Johnson Marketing Insights sends there managers to other offices within the region. I actually set up a interview with this "other" company to have a little fun with them. I remember him asking me:.."i see you worked for johnson marketing insights, how was that". I then told him the truth... AND GET THIS. he then said, "yea, Johnson Marketing Insights is a CULT!"
This guy had no idea that I knew that this company was started by the johnson marketing insights company. Even he said it was a "CULT"...LOL! What a dumbass! Great job picking your Public Relations Department!
So I ask all you new college grads out there to explore, research the company before you take the job. I know that its hard to get a job right after college and places like Johnson Marketing Insights KNOWS THIS! That is why they always look for the "Entry Level Positions" because they know they can use you!!!!!!!!!!!
I also think we as a group has to do something about all these SCAM companies posting jobs on job boards. I ask places like: Monster, Careerbuilder and HOTjobs to please, please don't let these type of companies post job openings on your board. By letting them, you are causing peoples careers/lifes to change! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do something about this.
And stay the heck away from Johnson marketing insights, johnson matlin international (haha, i guess they think they are international now)
Be patient! I promise you that you will find a better fit for your career if you stay away from this company!!!!
Jay
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.
I took a job with Johnson Marketing Insights right after college. It seemed like a good idea at the time (as does everything after graduating college). Worst mistake EVER!
If you do a job search RIGHT NOW on monster, careerbuilder for a marketing/sales job in the pittsburgh area, johnson marketing insights WILL come up! Something needs to be done about this! Sometimes they have over 10 listings for the same day! You'll find readings like: "Tired of Folding clothes? Great Sales Opportunity!" BS!
Everyday before work you would have to go into this office and do this freakin ridiculous drills with one another. Just like a freaking circus! You had to play games with one another. It was very funny. It was just like kindergarden all over again!
Those of you thinking about this job have to know one thing: your NEVER working for yourself! Your team leader pretty much rides your a*s until you get to a certain point when they can get a promotion. You also have to know that you get NO RESIDUALS! Guess who gets them? That's right the owner!
When I was there our client was Verizon. We went door to door in our Verizon jackets and Verizon Hats and NEVER WAS TOLD TO USE THE JOHNSON MARKETING INSIGHTS name.
Isn't this some type of misrepresentation!!!!?
My team leader was very good. She was a great manipulator, but very unethical. I believe as a salesman you have to build good relationships with customers. My team leader cared nothing about that. The only thing she cared about was getting the sale. I feel sorry for her if a customer actually called in to report her and remembered her name. SCREWED!
The owner/president was very nice. I can't blame him. He just wants to be successful as a business owner. So I can't really blame him. I blame the system. It would all be ok if everything is told to the employee out front!
There was also another owner there. We'll call him the "old navy guy". He had this wacked out haircut and acted like he was IT. I remember him talking to us about the "ladder" in the office one day. I could see right through him. He didn't care about us at all. He had this attitude like "hey im successful and if you want to be, you have to do exactly what i did and if you dont, your not gonna be successful" What a piece of s**t he was!
Johnson Marketing Insights sends there managers to other offices within the region. I actually set up a interview with this "other" company to have a little fun with them. I remember him asking me:.."i see you worked for johnson marketing insights, how was that". I then told him the truth... AND GET THIS. he then said, "yea, Johnson Marketing Insights is a CULT!"
This guy had no idea that I knew that this company was started by the johnson marketing insights company. Even he said it was a "CULT"...LOL! What a dumbass! Great job picking your Public Relations Department!
So I ask all you new college grads out there to explore, research the company before you take the job. I know that its hard to get a job right after college and places like Johnson Marketing Insights KNOWS THIS! That is why they always look for the "Entry Level Positions" because they know they can use you!!!!!!!!!!!
I also think we as a group has to do something about all these SCAM companies posting jobs on job boards. I ask places like: Monster, Careerbuilder and HOTjobs to please, please don't let these type of companies post job openings on your board. By letting them, you are causing peoples careers/lifes to change! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do something about this.
And stay the heck away from Johnson marketing insights, johnson matlin international (haha, i guess they think they are international now)
Be patient! I promise you that you will find a better fit for your career if you stay away from this company!!!!
Jay
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.
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Jess
Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
Sketchy!!
#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, February 28, 2007
I too worked for Johnson and Matlin International/Johnson Marketing. I was an intern and had a decent experience and made some money. I had read about Cydcor on ripoff report.com soon after I started working there, but I figured it was only an internship so it didn't matter (as long as they didn't cheat me out of money). Walking around all day was awful and I have not heard of any other sales job with such long hours. I've read the comments made by others and agree with most of them. If you are just an intern or are looking to get some experience, this is an acceptable (not good or great) job. I don't know how working your way up really works, but I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket! Also, don't count on being able to use anyone at Johnson and Matlin as a reference . . . they give you the runaround every time you call!!
Liam
London,Europe,
United Kingdom
Sounds like you were part of the Cydcor family - this company is that it changes it's name so many times or has so many divisions it is impossible to keep track
#3Consumer Comment
Fri, July 28, 2006
Jay It sounds to me like you were working for Cydcor or one of it's affiliates. Problem with this company is that it changes it's name so many times or has so many divisions it is impossible to keep track. Innovage, Dsmax, Granton Marketing, Cobra Marketing, IPG, Smart Circle and hundreds of smaller offshoots with ridiculous names such as Enigma Global. All the same, peddling crap door to door. Did your manager keep preaching about oppurtunity, morning chants, how important it is to have a great attitude? Did they accuse people of being negative when questioning the company? If so then you got the Juice old boy. Go to google and type in Dsmax Aftermath. It is a website created by people who were sucked into this Joke of an organisation. There are stories there from people who gave years to this organisation only to be spat out again broke as a joke. Very sad.
David
Peoria,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Bitter
#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, July 28, 2006
Jay (if that's your real name?) I too worked for Johnson Marketing Insights and I was skeptial at first during the interview company. I only worked there for a few months and had the same interview experience. After being hired it was a direct sales and marketing position and we did represent reputable comapnies like Verizon. I did well at first and the company trained me very well and my trainer was tough but fair. I ended up doing well and made really good money, but unfortunatley was unable to continue because of health problems. Had I not, I feel I would have progressed very far because the comapany evaluated it's employees based on their own performance and not their experience or lack there of. I feel that more comapanies should treat and evaluate employees based on their effort and performance, because most companies treat everyone the same and that's why people get frustrated! Don't get me wrong, the company requires a lot of hard work and dedication and not everyone is really that dedicated and realiable either. I only write this because I felt the experience was rewarding and really beneficail in my new sales career. The training I recieved was better than the training that my current company has given me in 6 months. My friend sent me this e-mail and I laughed bacause the only type of person that would have written this would have someone who either was not very good or needs to have a job that does not evaluate based on performance. Besides I wouldn't expect most people to base their career decsions on my thoughts or anyone elses for that matter. Fact is some people are worth having in comapny and some are not, why else would positions ever be open?
