Falsely advertised employment position. Advertised $20/hr pay for appointment setters, which is only true if 40 hr weeks are obtained. Every 3 hrs beneath that receives $1/hr less pay. The caveat is their hours–they ask their employees to start around 10 or 11 am, (encouraged by a spur-of-the-moment team meeting around that time), and don’t allow sales during dark. In the fall, that’s 11-5 pm or a 6 hour day, x5 = 30 hours, at a $16 hr wage. A much smaller pay check when anticipating 40x$20. If you are cutting it close to an hourly pay threshold (example, 30 minutes away from getting $15/hr instead of $16) they may fudge the numbers or “misreport” them so that you remain in the lower pay bracket.
Don’t pay employees for all of their training. Training wage is less than $15/hr, and they will give you assignments and make you clock out to do them. Don’t plan on 40 hr training weeks, either. They are also very picky on passing off trainees, you will be training for 1-2 weeks. Most quit by then.
Extremely disorganized. Communication is very last minute, late at night, early in the morning, and weekends. Be ready to always be available, without being on the clock. Kind staff, generally good at responding. Also lost a new hire’s documents, said that he never sent them. He resent emails showing their conversation and submission. He had to spend time filling them out and resending them to CEE.
Very flexible. Easy to work with your own schedule, you can take personal days.
Worried about the virus? During an in-person meeting, a company higher-up casually mentioned that he and his family was exposed to COVID. This put everyone attending at risk, and at least one employee tested positive within a week.
The routes are in locations that have had several solar companies go through, and most home owners have already made the decision whether or not they want solar, so it is a difficult crowd for a sale. On multiple occasions, employees will run into each other in neighborhoods, and realized they were assigned to the same area accidentally by management.
Main takeaway– this company has the potential to be great, after making improvements in honesty, transparency, organization, and respect for its team members. It is selling a great product, and worth an appointment, but not an employment position at this current time.
Clean Energy Educators called this morning, claiming to inform our household that Excel Energy is being forced to shut down its coal powered power plants and that our rates are about to go up …then they wanted to know the amount of our monthly Excel bill. When I said I was not comfortable divulging that information the individual hung up. Scam!
Victim Location 55437
Type of a scam Home Improvement
Called me. Said "Clean Energy Educator" very persistent about reducing my electric bill. Wanted to confirm: me, phone, address, then how many of us were on the title of our home (weird), then confirm my spouses name (weird) I said no I would not do that. She hung up right away — like immediately.
This occurred at 2:51-3:02 pm on July 7 2020
My husband and I are both teachers in good standing with our jobs, community, credit, etc…… all is good. So shouldn’t be someone seeking to interrogate us for any reason.
Just think they way she was so so persistent and then asking about the title of our home regarding lowering our electric rates was REALLY ODD! Wouldn’t excel energy company just call us directly very suspicious.
Hello, I work for clean energy educators and this must be someone operating under our name. We mostly door knock to try to get the word out about the net metering program. I’m sorry on behalf of my company if whoever called made you uncomfortable. I’ll let management know immediately of your encounter.