Anyone know anything about Bankers Life and Casualty company?

[notadmblnd]

I have a job interview. I read their website and they sound like an OK company, but I was wondering if any of you have any real life experience with them. Do they come across as vultures, do they prey on seniors? answers to questions like this is what I'm looking for real quick.

[Th1onein]

1. Look them up on Google. Here's what one guy said, but others....

were not as bad as this one:

Florida 06/29/2008: TOTAL SCAM

I was totally deceived at the group interview and training. I was told that there would never be cold calls, that leads were cards returned from mailings that showed a definite interest. No one ever said anything about paying for leads. I was told that I would have a mentor for three to four weeks, who would teach me all the tricks of the business, that I would also be making appointments and we would go on calls together and split commissions.

My first day at work (my training was at a different office--my office was a satelite ofice), we had to go to a "Ra Ra" meeting first thing. The low guys on the white board, were critized and told to change their ways or they wouldn't be there very long. Then I found out that EVERYONE in this office (about 8 agents) had been there less than a month. Half of them had been there about a week. There was one seasoned agent in office and the manager. How could this one guy provide this amount of support to 5 brand new agents and 4 pretty new agents. I know this office has been in existence for several years, so what happened to the agents who had been there? No one knows.

Also, I was given a list of leads, 3/4 of which were "do not calls". The rest were people in trailer parks, who could not afford any insurance, or a few that were so far (two hour drives) that if I did get an appointment, it wouldn't be worth the gas and time.

The management, particularly in the main office were excellent sales people--but to me it appears like a pyramid scheme, and I agree with the others who've said, they don't care how many agents they hire, they get their cuts of what you sell.

I'll never be sorry I left this job. I hated it from the first moment.

EH