Just got back from a job interview

[Manic Impressive]

Marketing
"our company is a new and vibrant company which has expanded 4000% in the last 2 years and aims to expand another 2000% in the next 18 months"

"We'll start you at an entry level position and if you hit your targets we'll promote you to blah position within three months"

"After another three months if you keep hitting your targets we'll promote you to accounts"

"If you keep doing well we'll promote you to manager and then we'll discuss a salary"

Me
"So it's not a salaried position then?"

Douche
"no it's a commission based job"

Me
"So will I be contracted to your company?"

Greasy cock weasel
"No you'll be working on a self employed basis"

Me
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQV52uBq9Jl0X9YRJaE1oo5m96VF97b6 j4VG5MPRjIwmW1YNUqP7I6Iruu0Gg

If anyone doesn't know commission based and self employed means that employers can get around paying you the minimum wage. But I can't turn down work or they'll definitely cut my benefits off for like forever. (they've already suspended them)

[Nox]

Marketing
"our company is a new and vibrant company which has expanded 4000% in the last 2 years and aims to expand another 2000% in the next 18 months"

"We'll start you at an entry level position and if you hit your targets we'll promote you to blah position within three months"

"After another three months if you keep hitting your targets we'll promote you to accounts"

"If you keep doing well we'll promote you to manager and then we'll discuss a salary"

Me
"So it's not a salaried position then?"

Douche
"no it's a commission based job"

Me
"So will I be contracted to your company?"

Greasy cock weasel
"No you'll be working on a self employed basis"

Me
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQV52uBq9Jl0X9YRJaE1oo5m96VF97b6 j4VG5MPRjIwmW1YNUqP7I6Iruu0Gg

If anyone doesn't know commission based and self employed means that employers can get around paying you the minimum wage. But I can't turn down work or they'll definitely cut my benefits off for like forever. (they've already suspended them)

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. It might be easy to make a decent amount of money.

What's the nature of that company? What do you do that you get paid commision for?

[Pioneers_Violin]

That sounds exactly like the job one of my friends had over the summer. :crying:

The job was produce, produce, produce, sell, sell sell!!! Be in the top 10 or be fired in 2 weeks! And, oh, by the way, everyone gets fired a week before 6 months so you can't apply for unemployment......


My advice is to keep trying. Even if you get this job, keep looking.

Your descriptors of the interviewer are superb.

[Triple A]

seems legit

[Ose]

I did a job like that a couple of years ago, selling gas and electricity door to door. Traipsed about in the pissing rain for 12 hours a day. Survived on a diet of instant noodles and Diamond White. Lasted less than a month and got paid a grand total of £100. Never again.

[Rusty Shackleford]

the company i just got a job at gave me the http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQV52uBq9Jl0X9YRJaE1oo5m96VF97b6 j4VG5MPRjIwmW1YNUqP7I6Iruu0Ggface too when i found out about everything.




its like having a union without there being a union. how the fuck can anyone organize it if the benefits and all that shit are already there! plus, its relatively cushy! #laboraristocracyproblems

[Winkers Fons]

I've been to an interview like that. They lure high school and college kids who don't know any better into a sleazy office that looks like it has been occupied for about 5 minutes where someone barely older than them will give a sales pitch about how they will be a respected "private contractor" selling a phenomenal product that everybody needs. They have really deceptive business practices with negative reports all over the internet. Classic case of "if it sounds too good to be true, it is probably just a scam for all of your time and money".

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Most of the time, if you make zero, or significantly below minimum wage, they'll pay you minimum wage instead, simply because they seem to be on the defensive regarding the sneaky self-employment maneouvre.

Door-to-door salespeople can be exploited working on commission because normally there aren't that many of them, it's difficult to prove the hours they've worked, productivity etc. But normally if you're in a call centre, with recorded calls and there are lots of you, they don't try to get away with paying you nothing at all.

[Blackburn]

You know the so-called promotions never come right? Or the time has to keep being pushed back.

I share your rage face OP.

[Dhul Fiqar]

That is the dodgiest thing I've heard since I met a Chinese investor who introduced himself by saying: "I am a legitimate businessman!"

You don't want anything to do with this company, it's going to end very badly by the sound of it.

[Art Vandelay]

That technically how I work, but I do make decent money at it. I am not a employee but a independent contractor.