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Farm-Fresh-to-You

Positives -

This is NOT a pyramid scheme. It is a legitimate farm network which delivers real CA grown fruits & veggies (at a premium) to ppls front doors.
You will have folks tell you all the time how much they love the service.
You are helping CA farms.
Hours are flexible to a point.
W2
They do pay, on time, every 2 weeks.

Negatives-
This job is getting worse and worse. I really feel bad for the new people. We didn't have to deal with all of this insanity last year. Many of our best reps have recently quit. Everyone pretty much hates their job now. Everyone is looking for other work. It is a sinking ship.

Commission ONLY, about $20/per box sale. This can be very profitable at times - in the spring & summer you can make over $100/day, but overall only a few ppl will be entrepreneurial enough to make the "big money". During the winter, count on making less than $200/week.

You are told that you are working "4 hours". BS. This is 4 hrs knocking on doors. Your day will likely go like this:

You arrive at the warehouse at around 1pm. You get in to the van... and are driven to a Starbucks near a territory. After an hour or so with a never-inspiring "pep talk"... you get back in the van and are dropped off in a neighborhood with a partner & a map.
If you start @ 3ish, you will probably be picked up around 7 or 8.
Back in the van, back to the warehouse around 9ish.

There are also events that we do, but that's a whole other crazy subject. Lately the events have been so bad...I don't even want to do them. I've lost lots of money on bad events. They do play mileage, but they don't reimburse like $20/parking + admission to an event which they failed to follow up on...and then we don't have a booth. That's not worth waking up @ 5am on a Saturday for. I wish I was exaggerating.

This was a flexible semi-cool job last year, but they have recently gone through major changes and have tried to implement a system which only "punishes" sales reps. There is no reward for doing well. The sales team is managed by a couple of buffoons. There's no other way to describe them. They are a couple of hustlers who made the farms alot of money 2-3 years ago, and are now managing all the sales and marketing. They have no schooling, they are just a couple of street kids who's persistence has paid off for them. Good for them, but their only concern is to assure that YOU are working so they make more money (as they get a cut of your commission).

These guys are making probably 10K a month, while you might make 1-2K if you make your minimums. Right now, nobody is making their minimums, so they are unhappy and letting us know that we aren't working hard enough, or have bad attitudes. LOL. These are the "pep talks" before we go get doors slammed in our faces all night in the rain. Nice.

There is no real training, help, or clear direction. You are basically given a t-shirt, a clipboard, and some sign-ups. Then you are on your own, but with some pretty high expectations.

It's really a shame. This could be such a great place to work if they only valued their employees and gave us a reasonable pay scale or incentive package, and moved away from the door to door stuff. It isn't necessary and it isn't working for them.

PS-
Prepared to have dogs let loose on you:)

The typical work day has dramatically changed in the last few years, and will only continue to change in an attempt to be better. It is uncertain if these changes will bring more balance or not. 

There is significant room to grow professionally and financially. However be warned there is a high turnover rate as there is limited training and high expectations. You will have one orientation, one or two days of shadowing, and thats it you better make quota.

Management is spread thin. There is very little support unless you are brand new, you are no longer considered new after 2 weeks. Because product, mission, and ideas are so positive workers are willing to go above and beyond almost all issues. Some have found great success $100-$500/8-11 hour day, some never make more than $30/day because they give up waste time and actually work 2-3 hours,  and most barely pull in $90/ day working 5-8 hours. Good reps can make $100 in 3 hours, but management tends to make this more difficult than it is worth by pushing us into areas we don't want to work in.

There is very little appreciation , loyalty, support, and unfair demands given in return to those who are driven. This causes the best of the best to burn out or move on with another company in higher positions. Managers on Sac team do not actually know what a typical pay period feels like for an actual rep in this territory, and do not listen to reps.

If you work hard you can gain some pretty valuable skills that any employer would love, networking opprotunity is fantastic. Great resume builder. This is a job, there is no career opportunity and every pay period you are back to square one. Meaning every rep is put back on the same playing field regardless of how long you have been with the company.

 If you are a top rep expect to have a target on you at all times and no management/ HR support. Make sure you are told what compensation you will recieve for training as you will lose a ton of money while training someone who will get privileges you have to fight for. Don't do the job if you are unable to believe in the product.

 Regardless of what position I eventually move up to in another company, I will be a supporter and get deliveries until I move out of CA. I sincerely hope they find a way to be as loyal to their hard working employees as we are to them, and this good idea turns into a better job that grows into a career.

The job posting listed here gives the position as a "farm ambassador", which admittedly drew me in. Once I was hired, though, my position was "outside sales rep", which definitely wouldn't draw as many people in. The salary information is very misleading--first off, Farm Fresh pays hourly. If a sales rep does not make quota (15 sales per week), they are paid $11.50 per hour ($460 per 40-hour workweek). If they do make quota, they are paid $40 per sale (a minimum of $600 per week). The minimum salary listed in this job posting, $40k per year, would require a sales rep to make 19-20 sales per week.

Turnover rate for sales reps is extraordinarily high, enough that my co-workers and I would take bets on how long each new hire would last. Most new hires, upon finding out what the job actually entailed, quit within two weeks. Even my co-workers who had stayed for longer than a month admitted that the job posting was intentionally misleading, and wouldn't have taken the job if they knew what they were getting into.

The management of the San Francisco branch (I can't speak for the other branches) was shoddy at best, with insufficient communication between the manager and sales reps. My first day of work was the same as the new manager's first day in his position; none of my new co-workers knew about the change in management until the new manager walked in (late, I might add) and explained the situation. We would not find out where we were canvassing until the day of, or even whether we would be going door-to-door or tabling. The training given was not very thorough; it seemed as though our manager was just trying to check off the "training" box as quickly as possible before sending us out. Us sales reps would have to pick up the slack where the manager had failed, training the new hires so they would actually be prepared for the tasks at hand.

Weekends were reserved for events (festivals, farmers' markets, etc.), which we would be assigned to a couple days previously, but the sales reps would often be shuffled around the night before the events would take place. The events themselves were all over the place in terms of profitability, as well. It seemed as though whoever sourced the events was going for quantity over quality; I would get anywhere between zero sales and 13, with the senior sales reps doing slightly better.

One thing I will give Farm Fresh, though, is the camaraderie I had with my teammates, even if that camaraderie was borne of a common distaste for the job. If you're an offbeat individual, you'll find your people here, but don't expect to find much else.

They claim you have freedom to do as you please as long as you hit quota which is technically 20
Sales a week or 4 sales a day 
You have the option of door 2 door or setting up with business or events 

There is favoritism in this company 
When I first started the best events were being split up among the workers evenly 
After some time the managers friend came to the Vegas office and took the best events EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND. You were left with the scraps. 
If I person who works for FFTY quit all events they have found will be taken by management 
Management wants you to knock door if you don’t have an event expects you to know in hail rain snow and excessive heats WITHOUT ANY BREAKS
If you are caught taking a 10 minute break in your car they would threaten your job or not give you any other events
Management expects you to knock but won’t knock more than 60 doors a WEEK
employees are
Expected to knock 150 doors a day

Management is obese, there are no incentives at all for the workers 
The money isn’t worth the 50 plus hours you have to put in a week 
Drive time is crazy 
This job will beat your car up as we drive EVERYWHERE 
you have no say as to where you will knock management controls it all 

TO WRAP IT UP 
FAVORITISM IS REAL 
HOURS WORKED AND PAID ARE NOT BALANCED 
50 HOUR WORK WEEKS
OVER WORKED UNDER PAID 
BY FAR THE WORST SALES JOB IVE EVER HAD 
DONT DO IT EVEN WITH THE 40% DISCOUNT IT ISNT WORTH IT
MANAGEMENT MICROMANAGES 

I worked as a delivery driver, and I loved this job. I loved driving at night, I loved the isolation, and I loved the simple physical work.
Unfortunately, this cannot be said for everyone who wishes to work there, I always said you have to be a very specific kind of person to be successful at this job, you have to be a night person, you have to be okay with being alone for 7+ hours at a time, but you also have to have a team mentality. You also have to have an open schedule, because although you only work 4 days a week, you can expect your hours to be so long, you have to dedicate 100% of those days to work and sleep.
By far, the worst part about this job for me was the co-workers, due to it being a job for such a specific type of person, a lot of people don't enjoy this work, and don't pull their weight, maybe it was just the hub that I worked out of, but you're going to have to pick up other peoples' slack, or just deal with their incompetence. Turn-over rates are pretty high.
Rainy season was also a tough time, although the company does provide fairy good rain jackets.
If you expect to keep yourself up with coffee or energy drinks, if you're someone who needs to talk to people all the time, or if you're raising a family, going to college, etc., then this job will not work out for you.

This is a unique job experience where you get to work your own hours and locations. The compensation is excellent, with health and medical benefits as well as a generous commission base for an entry level sales position. Management is friendly and understanding and is willing to work with you and teach you the ins and outs of sales. The actual work is easy. And I mean, REALLY EASY. All we do is talk to people and have amazing conversations about health, agriculture, and of course, food! I’ve worked in construction, on farms, in greenhouses, and in nurseries and I’ve never made more money than I do working for Farm Fresh To You doing absolutely zero hard labor. I do very little door knocking and the company often sets me up at events like farmers markets, expos, as well as other things. Farm Fresh To You is selling a premium quality product that represents a good cause that people actually want to support. The boxes pretty much sell themselves! This is an excellent job if you care about supporting farmers that protect our water resources, soil health, native ecology, farm workers rights, and consumer health, while also protecting the environment and preventing climate change!

It is door-to-door selling. 45+ hours a week, Tuesday-Saturday.
You will be paid only for 39 hours. The extra hours are "voluntary" (but not really) and "for your own benefit". 
You will be selling a local organic family owned product, which is great, because you will actually feel good about what you are selling. 
You will get some very useful tips on how to sell and how to be succesful. 
Each morning you will get a motivation boost and meet some great people. 

You will be knocking on strangers´ door, offering them to sign up for Farm Fresh To You service. Often you will be alone on empty street. 
You will have 3 weeks trial to make a certain amount of sales a week. If you won´t make that amount, on your third week, you will lose your job. 
If you do, it is now your quota for each week.  

You will have to drive your own car  or hop into a van, be dropped off at some neighborhood and walk walk walk, knock knock knock.

What I enjoyed about this job, was the team spirit and things I learnt, talking to people and lots of walking during the days. 
There were also things I did not enjoy, but if you take the job, you make your own decisions about that point :)
  




We had a barely-there manager. I suppose he gave more "one on one" time to others, but I never had a sit down with him apart from the interview itself. He was all smiles but not actually helpful as far as I was concerned. 
The assistant manager acted like the manager when it came to actually guiding the crew, but when it came down to it even she failed.
They schedule events that are barely appropriate for the company to be a vendor at.
They drive the crew to neighborhoods that are highly questionable, always claiming they have worked there before and did well. Neighborhoods that are too rich or too poor for the service. This job made me appreciate the people with "No Soliciting" signs. It became burdensome to talk to unexpecting people at their own doorsteps. So seldom did I make sales.
Crew members drink instead of canvass if they feel so inclined. They are too competitive and lack humility. 
This company is one to forget and not to fall for. 
If you don't sell enough, you won't know when you will be next to be fired. They drag it out and tell you you're doing well when you know you are struggling, and then you get fired.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working from home. Getting paid weekly.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having to call 150 - 200 calls per day. Required to hit a quota, when you are given very bad leads to reactive accounts. Many of these customers have been called week after week and day after day. Complaints from the customers were about bad produce and bad customer service. Also, we were told never to take them off to Do Not Call List and if the phone number was disconnected, we were not allowed to remove them from the call list either.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Our co-workers were nice to each other, so it seemed, but there was a lot of backstabbing amongst the favorite employees.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Sometimes we would have morning meetings on the calendar, but then they would be canceled. We would log into our computers and start dialing to make 150 to 200 calls a day. Spoke to customers that were very disinterested and disliked our products and services. It was very disorganized.

Pay at farm fresh Is horrible. Worst place I’ve ever worked at. Management does not take criticism and advice from employees seriously. Company does not care about the employees safety. Most vehicles weren’t serviced, had bad tires,broken tail lights/headlights and were unfit to be driven. The drivers had to check and fill the oil everyday and fix and or replace headlight/tail lights themselves. Vans were often over loaded and routes were never routed correctly even after countless feedback from drivers on what ways things could have been done better in order to be more productive. The worst thing was delivering in the Santa Cruz mountains with messed up vans, no cell service or gps service in the rain with no proper rain attire provided. I worked over 12hrs on those nights in terrible freezing wet weather conditions. After all that you get to enjoy being stuck in traffic back to the warehouse for over an hr after being up all night. I do not recommend this job to anyone unless you don’t care about your personal safety or care about making a decent pay wage.

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