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Originally Posted by pylon
Sorry, no you were not. You could work somewhere else.
I worked in Automotive finance for years, you want to talk about being pressured to sell products? And the potential ramifications of losing your job were way more dire, as the automotive community is small and the stakes are much higher as far as income went. I took a 7 month break and tried the RV business. The money was better, but it seemed too sketchy, so I went back to my old employer. It's pretty simple. If you don't like what you are being asked to do, find another employer or career path. It's not like there is a shortage of banks to work at.
And in all, if I felt morally compromised in anything anyone asked me to do, I simply said no. Want to fire me, go ahead. I still have to sleep at night. My conscious trumps any career. Thankfully I work for a dealer that was always above board, but there have been certain products we have been asked to offer that could have easily boosted my numbers, that I refused to sell, as I felt they were of little or no value to my customers. I never had industry best numbers, but I always had happy customers, top level CSI, and people that came back for second, third and fourth purchases.
So no. None of these people were forced to do anything. They chose to do these things to get a bigger pay cheque first and foremost. TD may have/had a boiler room mentality, but the door is right over there if you don't like the culture or ethics.
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This is all and dandy when you're taking in $100,000 plus and have for years and have some money in the bank to put your morals before your job but most TD employees couldn't survive not having their job for long. It's a low paying job as is, please don't let your own life experiences speak for these people.
Not trying to be a dick as I do respect you but you're a finance person at a major dealership, one of probably only several dozen jobs in the city, if that. Of course it's easy for you to say " if you don't like the job, there's the door" but if you're a single mother like the woman I know who works at TD, then "the door" means homelessness for her and her daughter not a couple hundred thousand in the bank until they find another job.