Do Not Work For This Company!!!!!!! (Rant)

First as a "Field Representative" I worked my butt off 60+ hours a week with no thanks for almost two years. Every day I received emails trying to scare me (hinting at losing my job) into working harder, which was not possible. There would be days where I would leave my house at 8 in the morning and not get back until 1-3 the following morning (driving all day mind you). You are underpaid and not appreciated.

Second, the equipment they give you to work with (which is held together by double stick tape and tie straps) is re-used over and over and doesn't even work most of the time. Their television metering method is abysmal. You will understand why people say the ratings aren't accurate. My retarded step-cousin could have designed a better system.

Lastly, you will have to install this equipment in family houses. All the nice homes will tell you to "F*$# off" when you explain how you will take apart their T.V.s in exchange for $50. This means you will be working in poor trailers, slums, and drug dens that want that $50 to buy alcohol or heroine. You will meet crazy, dirty, and most often angry people that wonder why you have to come out every two weeks to fix the metering equipment.

The only reason to take this job is the free 8 week trip to Florida. After that, you can quit.

Something I forgot to add after I read another poster.

Not only is the metering system flawed, but local offices will purposely skew the numbers to satisfy clients. For example, there are too many white households giving data and not enough African-American households reporting in (equipment not working). The office will throw out data for a number of white households to level it out. So if a few families were watching "Lost" that night, that show just lost thousands of viewers as estimated by Nielsen.

If you have no moral compass, than join this group of soulless hypocrites.

Booyah is 100% right. I work for NMR as a field rep. The viewing data NMR sells to TV stations is not correct in the way that if a regional manager and a market coordinator don't have the demographics or sample numbers where they need to be they chance losing a quarterly bonus.

You can tell when a RM is about to lose out on a bonus because you will be asked to do things that are against company policy "as a one time thing". Things such as keeping a home in sample 7 years when the limit is 5 because the demos match.

Other things I have seen are the marketing coordinators take a home in your area out of sample, a withhold is what they call it, because the demos counter what the need. What happens is you lose not only the rumored field rep bonus, but that home taken out of sample counts against you field area which is what your entire career is based on.

Only a handful of people actually "win" at Nielsen. If you are a FR or an MR you should consider yourself a temporary workhorse. I can honestly tell you that once Nielsen gets all they can from you, they dispose of you. That's unless you are able to get a MC or RM position. If you make it there you pretty much have topped as far as upward mobility.

If you have integrity and a solid morale fiber, you should stay away from this company.

You should never have to be intimidated or even coerced to to do unlawful or inappropriate actions just to boost numbers up a few points for the month.

However, if you smoke or even deal dope, have a clever yet devious personaility, are loose with your sexuality or subsribe to the notion that there is no good or evil; no such thing as right from wrong, then you can bypass all that trash called ethics and virtues and fast forward yourself into the unscrupulous world of NMR.