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Very good company, very friendly relaxed environment with  heavy work load and lots of distractions.  Minimal training on job expectations with poor structural formalized instruction.Lots of vague and ambiguous training. You must figure things out for yourself, questioning discouraged and penalized. Exclusionary culture ,but friendly on surface.
Strict management protocol, unforgiving of mistakes....
Overall Good company if you are willing to not ask questions and follow direction to the letter with no deviation. Recommended for smart, but shy, passive personalities that do not question or to any degree disagree with management decision making. So be willing to be mute and not offer input for work wenvirment challenges unless you haven immediarte solutions. Proceed with caution...
Overall Great company for the obedient quiet worker!!!

Great starter job. Pay is not the best at all, they don't like to actually hire employees but instead just abuse staffing agencies. Most notably I enjoyed the fact I was able to just work and not really be micromanaged. I learned more about my job and how to effectively fix various issues with their processes even if my findings were not implemented by others or really even recognized by the company. I really never was provided with a clear distinction of my job title or duties as an employee. This made working there rather difficult at times, especially when things slowed down. I learned some great skills pertaining to inventory and processing inbound and outbound product.

North California: I wouldn't recommend this as a viable career, turnover is probably 90-100%. You spend your money and time calling on businesses that are already being called on by other Colonial agents.

No solid training in overcoming objections, or making appointments, they have a 1980's mentality of - keep calling all sorts of random businesses to make 1 or 2 appointments. Yeah, well that concept failed 30 years ago!

Current method of sales is to get Aflac agents to convert their business.

With real leadership, this could be a great Company. But anyone with any skill or knowledge about this Industry has moved on.

I worked for this company for 2 yrs. When I left, I felt like the only thing I gained while working there, was the experience I could add to my resume. The mgmt isn't consistent and if you have concerns, it was like pulling teeth to get someone to answer questions. The patient care was poor; some employees bent over backwards to help residents..but unfortunately, the majority of staff was terrible. Not only hard to find, but some would leave and only returned to clock out at end of shift. It was ridiculous. I mainly worked on weekends, we didn't even have a weekend supervisor. There was no accountability. I decided to cut my losses and move forward somewhere else. 

A typical day at work in Colonial 6 theater would consist of Ticket sales, handling cashier , concession stand - food sales

I learned how to deal with multiple cultural aspects, and different types of people (elderly, teenage, young adult) and offer great customer service

Co workers were definitely team players, everyone was friendly and willing to help each other when things got really busy.

As, a student, it became difficult when i would have to close the theater at 2am and get to class at 7am.  This was probably the hardest part of the job

Most enjoyable part of the job would be the perks of watching every movie once they are released and working with a great team.

Hired. Excited. Go to area to start. Sign in sheet. Wait. 38 drivers. 15 get a truck. Everyone who signed in must go to warehouse and help load trucks. Pay-$25. So why are u here? Cuz the contract STATES that we will be scheduled days to work  u have to appear or be fired. But the schudule doesn't mean they put u to work ( and it's NOT first come, first served.) They have fav drivers. If a fav drivers was out, then maybe out of the may out of the 23 spare drivers, u get work for just one day. Also, this job is rediculous.  Everyone cud do a better job if they reduced the load, buy more trucks and get better service. But they'd rather have profits to owners.

a typical day at work would be punch in and go straight to my table where I proceeded to inspect the finished goods the company produced.
I learned most of all what is acceptable for consumers and how to deal with consumers.
the management was ok but not the best.
my co-workers were the best part f the job because they always had a smile on their face and made me laugh.
the hardest part of the job would have to have been the standing in one place all of the 8 hour day.
the most enjoyable part of the job would have to be the co-workers.

Management was never there was very demanding and common courtesy was never there.  supervisors never came to work and inspected us to be on top of everything even things I didn't seem to be under my requirements of a job. It typical day at work was coming in doing snacks in the kitchen dishes laundry sweeping mopping replacing items in the bathrooms cleaning bathrooms etc most enjoyable part about the job was the employees I found myself working with and getting no residents.

Colonial has been a great company since it was founded 75+ years ago.  This biggest issue is the way the management is hired in each state to run those states.  It doesn't matter if you have had any previous experience you will be hired if you had a decent year in sales the year before.  

Most Veteran reps are left out in the cold for new reps that can't make it on their own even after the training period.

This the place where I got my start in sales and in the auto industry.

I had by far the best manager I have ever worked for in my life, I've worked varies jobs in my 26 years in the workforce. He is everything you want in manager and leader. When Laine left the company everything changed and unfortunately not in a good way. I saw an opportunity with a different dealership (KIA) with a similar product so I jumped while the iron was still hot.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Account manager 2 salaries reported	$61,750 per year
Sales manager 5 salaries reported	$82,400 per year
Recruitment consultant 1 salary reported	$77,500 per year
Training manager 12 salaries reported	$150,000 per year
Sales representative 2 salaries reported	$59,321 per year

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