CSR - Customer Service (CSR) ASG Marketing Employee Review

alot of socialising but its basically a cult

you work for free most days all expsense are on the individual and not the employer, they make you pay to go to location only to make £12.50 per day, no employement progression only a rotating door of people out of work who think its a actual job only to be fed the indepant contracter seminar

People were friendly and kind.

They make you register as self-employed so they don't have to pay you a salary and instead only pay you commission. Even then, you don't get the full commission as it is slashed by roughly 60-70 percent; you make peanuts while upper management rakes in the dough. There is no work/life balance since you won't have a life if you work full time. You start at 10am, there will be a meeting at 10:30 which goes on until the late afternoon. After the meeting, everyone gets into teams and goes out into the "field". The field is a territory of about 200 hundred doors divided between 2 or sometimes 3 people. You knock on doors until about 8-9pm and then have to come back to the office so your coach can "do your numbers" which basically is you breaking down your day, how many sales/people spoken to. After all that, everyone finishes around 10; a 12 hour workday with barely any money to show for it. The agenda here is to tire out the employee and seperate you from your family/friends who can speak some sense into you. This allows the management to indoctrinate its reps with promises of a high/lavish life, retiring your parents. Although these are not bad things, the management uses these factors to influence reps. On their job adverts, they promise "team nights" which are basically a few boxes of pizza shared between 20 people. There also "International Travel Opportunities" within which the company flies out reps to not travel but to meet other indocrinated reps and higher ups that are taking advantage of people working underneath them so they can "network" and learn how they can do the same thing. Reps are encouraged to "open their own companies". This is done so that newer reps who get promoted to "leadership" (you get more responsibility for which you don't get compensated for), hire people under thier name/company resulting in making the parent company harder to trace. These types of companies have a high turnover rate, this due to misleading job postings, making high promises. For example, a single "leader" might bring in 10 people of, 7 of which will realise the kind of company they might end up working for and not even come back. The rest quit within the first/second week; the ones that stay are indoctrinated to the point that they start seeing this as an "opportunity" but are due for a rude awakening. The reps are lovely people, it's a shame that they do not realise how badly they are being taken advantage of. The company gets almost free labour, paying their reps commission only; the management takes a huge chunk of it while the rep who was on his feet for most of his day, in the cold and the rain, barely makes any money. Because you have to travel to different areas, the higher ups are so greedy that they don't even cover those costs, nor the costs for lunch, even the merchandise (the clothing repersenting the brand) have to be bought by the rep from the manager. They are so greedy that they don't even provide their reps flashlights as it gets really dark in winter. If you are a recent graduate or are looking for work, stay away from this company and others like it. Link Marketing and Juss Marketing are also housed within the same building and follow the same criminal business model. Some things to look out for in these job postings; > No experience needed/immediate start > 300-600 weekly pay etc. > If they have Marketing; Promotions; in their names > They don't call you in for a interview but a presentation (This is where they try and sell you this "HUGE" opportunity) ...and much more. Also, the way that they finance those international trips are *drum roll* you guessed it! They finance it from the money that they should pay thier reps as a salary and from the money that they gladly take a cut from the sales that a rep makes. IF YOU ARE A REP HERE, LEAVE ASAP. The reason they want you to work 6 days is, so they can make more money off of you and so they can keep the rep fatigued which means, the rep will be so tired that they will barely have any time to do actual research on how badly they are being taken advantage of. I have no doubt that they will try and inflate their reviews on Glassdoor by posting reviews like; how it is a great place to work, company culture, not for the average 9-5 people and along those lines.