So,
On my 2nd interview:
I also went through the pathetic thing they call a training programe.
You arrive at like, 12ish. Shake hands with the manager, or high five them, or kiss them or whatever.
Every one is in the most awesome of moods, which also gets you in a great mood too, as all managers say 'Smiling is contageous' (The only bit of truth they told me)
I wasn't told ANYTHING about what I would be doing, I wasn't told how much I was going to earn, where we were going. I was tod by all managers to 'ask as many questions as possible' but every time I asked one I got the same 2 ****ing responses.
"Ask another manager"
"Wait 'til lunch"
WHY! :S
So around 1ish that day, I found out we'd be knocking on doors for a living.
...
At this point I'd already quit my last job, so had to take this pretty much... Oh the fun.
At about 4 o clock on the 'lunchtime business breakdown' I was shown the business plan... on a beer mat.
All I could look at was the??? for managerial position. I then tried my best for the rest of the day to get that job. I got it, they took my phone number and told me to be in 10 a.m the next day. which, by the wat, was when they told me the job was commision based, which was a little ironic because the guy who took me out on my interview made sweet F.A.
So, altogether, they didn't tell me it was commision based, they didn't tell me it was door to door sales, they didn't tell me i'd be working 14 hour days (No lie) which is actually illegal for my age (17) they didn't say that only like, 1 in 25 people actually reach manager. The statistics they gave me were all wrong and they sugar coated every thing.
I worked there for 4 weeks and quit after, because I couldn't take getting up at 7 a.m, leaving at 7.30 and getting back at 11.30.
In my first week I got 11 applications, which are worth 20 each, so I should have got 220, right?
No.
I got dead on 100. I haven't been paid for the other 3 weeks they owe me yet, which should also be approximately 200 a week.
My theory: I read on forum on the internet on my phone on the day I quit at lunch. 1 person said that he got 14 apps that week, because he was on talk talk that should have been approx 440. he got something like 100 too and when questioning the manager they said it was because all the others had cancelled. Well smartly enough, the guy saved all the phone numbers of the people who supposedly cancelled, dialled them and not one of them had. So where did the other 330 go?
I'll tell you where, the managers pocket.
I think one more thing is, why didn't we get any form of wage slips? Even self-employed, we're still supposed to get them.
Also, when the manager read through the terms and conditions of my contract, she read it like you hear 'Subject to availability, terms and consitions apply' that you would hear on an advert. Picture that speed for about 3000 words. Was there something they didn't want me to hear?
The last one now:
I befriended a 16 year old girl on the interview. when the manager was going through the T's & C's of the contract with her, the girl asked if she could take the contract home for her parents to read over. (In retrospect, shouldn't the parents have been there anyway to sign it if she was only 16?)
The managers response was as follows;
'I don't think this job's for you.'
Anon
Yorkshire
United Kingdom
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