I worked here for two months. I was a high roller selling at least 4 sales a day, I became a leader where I then had to train new recruits. I also had to buy their lunches etc and didn't get paid any more for my extra work.
I attended meetings every morning from 9 onwards then finished work gone past 11pm on some occassions. I thought it was the best thing in the world, I stupidly told all my friends how well I was doing and didn't listen to my family either when they told me it was all too good to be true. I did earn a decent amount because I was good at sales but when you reduce the 30% for the bond they take out and then take off NI and tax I was on the same wage as any shop assistant that worked the same hours as I had.
I never moved up from being a leader, we were told to make the newcomers feel really welcome, tell them how good they are at the job, that they'll soon pick it up and be rolling in it, that I was happy as ever and I too was rolling in it, that the sales were always regular.
What they didn't tell me was that once you get your own office you have to relocate city, well I had a life at home so I was not willing to do that especially when I read on here all the horrible things that have happened. The road trips were a joke, youth hostels, B&B's and 1* hotels, all expenses paid for - yeh right. I paid for the newcomers to join me, I paid for the hotel rooms, I paid for the food etc. etc.
I wasn't living with my parents when I took this job, it was a risk I know but I took it without hesitating because of all the brilliant things said in my obs day & throughout. I got into debt, my bonds were coming back in negative - in any other sales company you and all the other staff see how well you are doing what exactly has come back etc but not here. I couldn't check with anyone whether these customers had returned, I couldn't even ask why so that I could save them from leaving. Nothing.
I couldn't pay my rent, I had to move back home, I lost my girlfriend, she said she couldn't cope with never seeing me, I was away most weekends on road trips and o the streets all day. I quit after I looked at these posts, I realised what I had put into this company and what little I had recieved out of it.
I'm still with my parents, my girlfriend has accepted my apology and I'm working as a manager in retail sales 20, 000, 000, 000 times more prospects than that place. Money isn't worth it if you have no life to live.
Don't work there or quit now, honestly.
James
London, W
United Kingdom
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