Complaint Review: Netlinx Communications - Mississauga Ontario

Okay so i think everyone deserves a fair warning about this company I worked for this company for about 6 months last year in 2009 for the summer. This company deals with real estate advertising folders. First and foremost YOU WILL NOT GET PAID. I remember working there and every day all of us in the office had to tentivley ask the boss if we would get paid today. They NEVER have any money and will promise they will pay you but only after you ask 10 times and refuse to do any more work until they pay you.

At the begining it seems like a great job it is a small office but the company makes NO money at all. You cold call businesses all over Canada and the US to set up advertising appointments so a high pressure sales man can go in and get peoples money for advertising that many many have complained does not work. Here are some of the worst things about this company that I think it is essential for anyone to know who is getting "hired" there

1. If you do not get appointments or make sales you will be fired and quick

2. There are 3 owners and all 3 are always clashing in management styles. The "head" everold is a nice guy but trust me dont think that means ur going to get ur money. The second ryan is a playboy who was constantly checking out girls, talking about facebook etc and the third who is the WORST and you seriously need to beware of is Corey. He will make you want to kill yourself. I cannot tell you how cold hearted he is and how he will crush your spirits. He made everyone in the office very upset many times. He is deceptive and manipulative, when you first start he will be nice but as the days go on his colours will change.

3. Sometimes they hire you when they dont have a deal for you and therefore you will be stranded for weeks as an "employee without work"

4. Training is only paid if you are there for 30 days so if u decide to quit at day 29 or get fired you will not get paid for that period

5. It is a commission only based job therefore They TELL you that you will make 1500+ every 2 weeks but this is a COMPLETE LIE most weeks I only made 300 dollars working there a week and thats only if you beg them for it

6. they will make you feel guilty for asking to get paid and wil defer it to next week

7. Seriously watch out for Corey. He is very unprofessional Many times when I took a 15 minute break he would give me the silent treatment. My last week at the company he gave me the silent treatment for the entire week because it was tough to book appointments

8. They are seriously heartless and have a very very quick employee turnover. Most people quit

9. Ryan and Corey are very unprofessional. In addition they share employee-employer confidential conversation information with other "trusted" employees who will ofcourse come back and tell you that they are discussion you in a horrible way

10. They will minimize you, call you names and talk behind your back like teenagers.

I hope this list helps some people. I have been hearing a lot about the going ons in the company and i feel it is my right to inform potential employees about what they are getting into because if i had known i would never have worked for them. By the time i found out all this it was too late in the summer to look for another job so I had to stick it out and it was rough

The other employees there are nice people though and it is fun to work with them. They all band together as a force united so you are not alone. Recently I heard that 5 employees quit at one time and all the sales reps have quit as well because of the huge amount of money they are owed. So i know they will be hiring and I hope someone gets to this before signing up with them

I am not a disgruntled employee in fact I enjoyed the people there a lot and thats why i stayed. But If i could go back to that time in my life I would have never never taken that job. I was one of the few people that got the total amount of money owed and only after 8 months of leaving the position. Within the 6 months there I only made the 1500 dollar commission amount ONCE and neither of my collegues did either. It was struggle and it is depressing to work there

Also, Corey will always tell you that he does give 2 s*its about your personal life but he brings his entire personla life into the office. You will see dating sites open and him flirting with women in the next cubicle loudly. There is no openess between employee and employer, in fact sometimes it seems its a bunch of inexperience kids running the company. There are no incentives, no rewards, no company outings.

Expect to always have to come in a half hr early and not get paid for it and if you do not you will have to have multiple conversations enclosed in their offices. Expect to have to stay an hr after your shift as well. It is a tense enviornment I will say that. When i worked there many of us were afraid to go to lunch or break. We whispered all the time because we were scared one of them might snap. It was the desperation of work that kept us there.

So please take this as a warning against them. Many of their employees are now going to the labour board. Since i dont work with them any longer and have no personal gratitude/happiness for which they could stop me from writing this I am. I wish I had written it sooner. The worst is probably how they demean you and tell you "Well we could have hired anyone we wanted, You guys are spoiled brats, We're going to fire you"

They promise big things but dont deliver. I learned my lesson "if it sounds too good to be true then if probably is"