I have been recruited twice by K Designers. The way they reached me, was because I posted a resume on MONSTER.COM, so they contacted me. The first time I turned down the job oppurtunity. Both times that the recruiter contacted me they told me that the position includes full benefits, and is a salary + commision position. This is a lie, it is told because the recruiter gets bonuses on how many people he can get in for an interview.

The job that they hire for is called a "marketing director" which is actually a high pressure sales possition, were you try and sale $25, 000 remodel packages on the spot. Now the manager for the state of Washingtons branch name is Dan Drotts. The truth of this position is that it is 100% commision only job. You are not actually even employeed by K Designers, you are a independent contractor (which means you are a 1099 contractor and you pay all of your own taxes)... Now I dont have a problem with any of that, but I do have a problem with recruiters that call you and lie to you, to get you to go to a interview that is an hour away from my home. Unfortunitly I did not read all of the posts on the internet, but believe me before I work anywhere from now on I will do my homework. They also offer no benefits at all, no retirement, insurance, sick days, or vacationt time. Dan just acted like he didnt know what I was talking about, when I brought up my conversation with the recruiter. Now Dan just assured me that this would not be a problem with all the money that I would be making, so I thought OK I will get my own insurance then because I would be able to afford it. So I accepted the position.

Now the first week of work meant, 9 hours of day of a online class for the first five business days. And no you dont get paid a single dime for the first week, including Saturday where you are required to shadow a fellow MD. After your first week, you get $200 a week, but it is a draw and they take the whole $1200 back on your first commision check, or until you make enough commision to pay you ledger off. I started figuring things out after the first week, and it started to sink in. They interview 5 to 10 people EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS DAY. The turn over ration is 100%. Every week there are new MD's going through online training. 50% dont make it through the week. 45% quit during the following week. But eventually there is 100% turnover. Except for Dan Drotts, the branch manager, because he is the only one that is actually a K Designers employee that gets benefits, salary, and commision of what everyone sales. When I started there was only 1 employee that was working there for longer then 6 months, and he was the second best salesmen in the branch. Now going back to the interview, when Dan told me not to worry about the benefits because of the money that I would be making, I asked him what the average income was of the MD's that were currently working there and Dan told me that it was $70k a year. Now back to the part of the only MD working there for over 6 months and is the 2nd best selles men in the branch. I asked him what he is on pace to make this year after the 11 months that he has worked here, he informed me that it was $30, 000. That is when my jaw dropped, immidiatly that evening I decided to come home and google K Designers and bam all the information I wished I would have read before I started. Now the main reason that the turnover is so high is because you always get shorted money on you commision checks. In the sum of thousands of dollars.

In the course of the 3 months that I have worked there I have caught Dan Drotts in 23 lies. I just dont understand this. If you want good people to be apart of your branch why do you fill the need to lie . This cause a big problem, even if this was a lagit company, people still dont want to work under a lier. This man has actually said more lies to me, then just regular truthful statements. Ive never experienced any thing like it.

Now heres the break down of working for this company. All expensed of employment are 100% the MD's responsibility. You run 2 - 3 leads a day. Now 80% of the appointments are people who are not home, people who deny the appointment because they were pressured so much on the phone they said yes to get off. 20% are legit with people who are interested in a bid for a prodect. Now you are required to sell them a very expensive package on the spot ($10, 000 to $40, 000). Keep in mind that both homeowner(s) have to be at the appointment in order to sign the paperwork to make it a sale. Now most people dont have $20, 000, so we do offer financing this is great except for the fact that the financing fees come straight out of the MD's commsion. So if you sell a $20, 000 package and you commision is $2000 and it costs 8% to get the financing the charge for that does not come off the price but right off the top of your commision, K Designers doesnt help with any of these costs. And since everything is way over retail K Designers is making thousands off each sell, they still dont give a crap and take it out of the MD's $2000. So this would make your commision $400. Now the leads are all over the state. So usually you drive on average 200 miles to your lead, and you have 2 - 3 a day. They do attempt to group them up in the same city as your first one. And when you appointments are really far you are required to get a motel room for a couple of nights, sometimes 5 night, and you are not paid back for any of it. Now with the rate of the crappy leads, if you are really really good, you might be able to make between 1 to 3 sales a week but that would be above average. Your out of pocket expeses of working here are about $1500 a month. You also dont get the phone numbers of the leads because they want you to drive all the way over to the home and wait for the people to get there if they are not there when the appointment is scheduled. So you are never able to confirm that your appointment is actually going to happen, or that the lead they set for you is not a 85 year old widow that has a live in hospice nurse. And yes that does happen quite offten. So now you can understand why the second best sales men for K Designers for the whole state of Washington only made $30, 000 for the year. I dont know how he came up with an average MD yearly pay was $70, 000.

I could go on for another 10, 000 words but I wont. If this post just gives 1 person the information they need, before they interview for K Designers and the Washington branch and Dan Drotts, then it was well worth the time of typing all of this. Now K Designer actually has people that do nothing but look for these types of posts online and they will repond to them making it all look like it was all are fault and not theres. This is becase they get so many disgruntled ex employees and frustrated customers, they have to do something. Just try to google them. But that is a whole differnt post and subject. So just a warning they will post something in response to mine. Probably protending to act like they are a current very satisfied employee or really greatful customer. If anybody has any questions, please post a response and I will give you my answer from my experience. Thanks for your time.