Not that I’d recommend anybody take the job, though what’s the issue?
It’s a job…it’s a fucking horrible job but it exists
I’d imagine this issue is it suggests 850 per week is the base which doesn’t make sense with the base yearly salary
I’d imagine the €850 is *technically* possible with on target earnings but, in reality, the chances of someone actually achieving that is next to impossible while €22K or €423 before tax is the base salary.
Total scumbaggery, but I’d say they’ve their bases covered in the small print.
Maybe it means you’ll be selling €850 worth a week?
Tell them there us a typo on their ad.
I’d rather be homeless and starving than be a door to door salesman.
I took one of those type of jobs years back when I was broke enough for it to make sense.
No base pay, commission only going door to door in Cork trying to get old ladies to switch phone providers in the November cold, (a particularly cold November if I remember correctly) Not being a natural salesperson I made no sales.
Those who were making sales were total scumbags, ringing eircom with the customers details and getting access to their account to complete the signups themselves regardless of whether the customer has agreed to this.
The whole thing was setup as a pyramid scheme, my direct superior got a cut of my sales having recruited me, in turn their direct superior got a cut of their sales and so on up the chain of command to where there was presumably some lad sitting in a chair in the UK somewhere fanning himself with fresh wads of 50s.
I gave it two weeks before escaping to the comfort and steady pay of a call center.
The company that recruited me sold for whatever the phone company was but also electric Ireland, wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same bunch of people now operating under a new doing the same.
My advice is if this job ever seems appealing don’t do it, just go work in a call center until you figure out what you actually want to be doing.
They should ban them from showing the potential numbers which are just misleading, only let them show the base number that they have to pay you for the year and let everything else be discussed later on.
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Not that I’d recommend anybody take the job, though what’s the issue?
It’s a job…it’s a fucking horrible job but it exists
I’d imagine this issue is it suggests 850 per week is the base which doesn’t make sense with the base yearly salary
I’d imagine the €850 is *technically* possible with on target earnings but, in reality, the chances of someone actually achieving that is next to impossible while €22K or €423 before tax is the base salary.
Total scumbaggery, but I’d say they’ve their bases covered in the small print.
Maybe it means you’ll be selling €850 worth a week?
Tell them there us a typo on their ad.
I’d rather be homeless and starving than be a door to door salesman.
I took one of those type of jobs years back when I was broke enough for it to make sense.
No base pay, commission only going door to door in Cork trying to get old ladies to switch phone providers in the November cold, (a particularly cold November if I remember correctly) Not being a natural salesperson I made no sales.
Those who were making sales were total scumbags, ringing eircom with the customers details and getting access to their account to complete the signups themselves regardless of whether the customer has agreed to this.
The whole thing was setup as a pyramid scheme, my direct superior got a cut of my sales having recruited me, in turn their direct superior got a cut of their sales and so on up the chain of command to where there was presumably some lad sitting in a chair in the UK somewhere fanning himself with fresh wads of 50s.
I gave it two weeks before escaping to the comfort and steady pay of a call center.
The company that recruited me sold for whatever the phone company was but also electric Ireland, wouldn’t be surprised if it was the same bunch of people now operating under a new doing the same.
My advice is if this job ever seems appealing don’t do it, just go work in a call center until you figure out what you actually want to be doing.
They should ban them from showing the potential numbers which are just misleading, only let them show the base number that they have to pay you for the year and let everything else be discussed later on.