Working at Combined Insurance in Ontario, CA: 5 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Ontario, CA Area

"When you are recruited they tell you they put you up in a hotel and it is all free. Well...You need a deposit for the hotel and you need money for meals. Then they promise you a training allowance. When pay day comes you are lucky if you get it. They will find a reason not to pay you. Once you are in field training if you are going to be paid that is up to your district leader. Paid training is not exactly true. Also the commissions you make aren't exactly true. They don't tell you until after that 20% comes off your pay for an account to pay your charge backs. Also an additional 12.00 comes off your pay to cover expenses like business cards and brochures and applications. Those things are not free. You are told you must wear executive business attire. Your sales leader may not be dressed like that. The professionalism across the board is bad. There is no conflict resolution skills. No training in that area either. Sales leaders make an override on whatever you sell, so do district leaders. You also have to sign on with them full time. It's best to do this kind of thing on a part time basis until you can afford to replace your income. They pride themselves that they are not like Primerica. Actually they are very similar. If you quit, your sales lead and your district lead have gotten paid a commission for you and they will be charged a charge back and they can come after you for it. Also you sign an invoice for 5,000.00. If you don't do 5,000.00 worth of business before you leave, the company can come after you for that. Because the free training they offer you is not free."

"Don't even interview here, you will be broke! You will be bombarded with so many conference calls and unnecessary meetings that you won't be able to do your job! And if you even file any kind of complaint against management, they will retaliate and fire you! The CA upper management is the worst! They are aware that employees only last a short period of time so they are always hiring. You will be harassed and treated like garbage even after working 12-14 hours a day!"

"This will ruin your life! Stay away! Unprofessional chauvinistic racist pigs!!!"

"Stay away! The recruiters will feed you a bunch of lies so they can get paid. They pressure you to leave for Chicago for a 2 week training program right away. They will tell you your salary is one thing but it's not. Also, they will say you have protected territories but you don't! It's open. You do NOT own your accounts. So after you worked hard to get a client after 6 months it will show up in another agent's lead assignment. Your renewal commission is only 2%. Much more BS!"

"Never in my life have I experienced such lack in professionalism and support as I did at Combined Insurance. They provided nothing but false promises and abuse. You only get promoted if you sleep with upper management or are as corrupt as they are. It's too bad a few execs running California continue to ruin this organization. There are at least 9 pending workplace violation lawsuits against the Market Director of Los Angeles so far."