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I lived in Ohio and had found a job in Buffalo, which was great because that is where my girlfriend lives. My girlfriend and I met online and had been in a long distance relationship for about a year. I started working for AMS January 3rd, they trained me for 3 days and then sent me out on my own. If you are looking for a career job in sales, this is a very tough route to go and these people, especially the owner are very shady individuals. When I first started there I filled out paper work about what plan I wanted to be on in terms of pay. My choices for pay options were full commission or base plus commission. I choice base plus commission because I was new and wanted to ensure I made some money. There is also an agreement with every employee that as long as they show up to each of the 3 training days on time they recieve 150 dollars. After my 3 days of training, I still badly lacked product knowledge and paperwork knowledge and they still sent me out on my own. The next 7 days of work was awful and the job was really getting me down and depressed. I'd say of the 40 doors a day that I saw on my own at least 20 of those people a day cussed me out, yelled at me, or told me that AMS screwed them over. After 10 days of working about an average of 10 hours a day and feeling depressed and having no confidence I decided to quit. Last week I recieved my paycheck after having to hassle them about it twice, my paycheck was worth 44.00! I expected to recieve about 400 dollars. 300 for the 7 days of base pay, plus 150 for 3 days of training. I thought about calling the owner again or even suing them, but just decided to move on stop allowing these people to bring me down. I worked about 65 hours in those 10 days and made 44 dollars, that's a little more than 50 cents an hour.
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I didnt recieve my W-2 form until a week after it was due. The W-2 I recieved was a copy. In box 20, the locality- it stated yonkers. I have never lived or worked there and the company is not located there. This is a $200 difference in your tax return. When I asked why it said yonkers, i was told it said non-yonkers but it was cut off. When I asked for the original, I was told he lost it. This man/company is a scam on people's money and time. He assumes everyone no one will notice or protest to his scams. Don't trust him with your time and money, he will suck it all up.
This is a pyramid scheme, the owner pockets part of your sale, I was employed there for about 2 and a half months. So I did try really hard. I was promised $400 a week base pay, instead weeks later I was shysted and told that there never was base pay, and that I only got paid for commission. The owner, Jason pockets a part of every sale that is made. And not only that, sometimes you don't even get paid on the sale, and they say... Nothing we can do? It is almost impossible to get ahead, because you have to drive all over WNY and spend all of that gas. This job was nothing more than a pack of lies, not an opportunity. Because of it, I gave up my max benefit unemployment, and almost lost my car to repossession. You work 6 days a week, and yes, the days are about 10 hours long. As if selling door to door wasn't hard enough?! Please listen to me and these other testimonies, do not even bother with this company. And when i quit and tried to get back on unemployment, the owner refused to help to me. Please don't make the same mistake we all made.
And don't feel bad, they don't pay anyone. Plus their scams have screwed over so many people in the area no one wants anyone affiliated with this business walking through their door. They won't have any business before too long because no one will want to deal with them, just give it time :)
I quit because, aside from the unethical practices, I thought it was ridiculous that everyone in the office slept around with one another. It was disgusting and aside from being unprofessional, I felt extremely uncomfortable. People who work for this business just bounce around to different affiliates in different states and every office is the same. I've got so much more dirt on this place and the people, including the owner, but it is a waste of my time to write it lol. Hope they get shut down and everyone loses their job... what a joke!
What was the position that you interviewed for?
I COMPLETELY AGREE! READ THIS BEFORE EVEN INTERVIEWING WITH THEM, THEY ARE A SCAM, VERY CLOSE TO A PYRAMID SCHEME. IF YOU ARE DESPERATE FOR A JOB AND CONSIDERING EMPLOYMENT WITH AMS PLEASE READ THIS IT WILL ONLY TAKE 5-7 MINS. WORTH EVERY MINUTE.
I went through the interview process, met the "crew" that worked there and thought everything should work out. WRONG. 1st.) During my first interview with the owner, who we can call Al. Al is a lawyer or has a JD just doesn't practice law anymore, he quit because he couldn't "advance" up in the company, interesting considering he preaches that winners are not quitters and quitters are failures haha, but I assure you he knows his legalities. 2nd.) The 2nd interview I went on was an 8 hour shadowing with a field representative. Sounds cool? NO, I had to drive all day. Although I must say that the guy I was with for the day was easily the coolest dudes there, I just feel badly he has to work for that owner. The owner pray's on "weak" people and it is a true "burn and turn" "employee meat grinder" of a company. The owner doesn't have a car or drive, or whatever, at like 40 something years old, that a bit weird for such a "successful" businessman, who was a practicing attorney in Chicago IL...can you say possible DWI? Also the assistant manager, who we can call Eman, who lives with the owner might I add, also doesn't drive, which was the reason I had to drive all 8 hours on the second interview all over the city of buffalo. Also DWI... they walk to work. The day I was going to quite I went in extra early around 7:30 and saw them walking down Wehrle Dr. CRAZY. 3rd.) they are a deceiving company. Here is what you will have to deal with should you want to take this awful demoralizing job. The job is not 8:30-5. Every Wednesday morning you have to be there for "product knowledge" which translates into more talks from the owner, yes about product knowledge, but he also has great communication skills in which he employers to make everything seem so easy and lucrative. ALL THE EXPENSE IS ON YOU 100% UNLESS YOU GO FOR THE BASE + COMM. All the gas, food, everything. If you do accept a position after reading this, do yourself a favor and take Al's $300 base pay a week + comm. at least you can get something out of the guy. My last pay check like the persons' above was for $3.76 No Commissions were on there, no training pay. NOTHING. 4th.) If you aren't successful during the day to day, door to door, which consists of 2 successful appointments, you aren't allowed to come back to the office at 5:15, you have to stay out until 6 then come back around 6:30, considering you have to drive yourself to your territory, which is generally 30 min drive 1 way. 10 hour day...They will make sure and give new comers second or third tier territories because of experience. 5th.) They have morning, team building we will call it, in which they try to "practice" communication or training you to deceiving your customer and tricking them into thinking you are doing them a favor, which you might be, but very few and far between. 6th.) Also if you aren't "pretty" don't bother, the place is full of beautiful people, which makes sense considering it is a face to face, door to door salesman. It is a tough job but if you don't have any regard for people's place of business or their feelings, then this job is for you. Basically people with cocky, arrogant, don't care attitudes will succeed. I feel bad for those people, they could do so much better with better business practices. A real sales company provides a fair base salary of around $24, 000 - $35, 000 + Comm. Take a little more time and go find one of those. I feel they would hire a 10th grader if they spoke well and owned a nice suite. I wish I had nice things to say, and this is not a test to my capabilities and skill set. I was looking and jumped prematurely, I am college educated with a BS in Marketing. I have since found a great position with a $25, 000 base plus unlimited comm. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE, HOPE THIS HELPS!