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SCAM! A genuine pyramid scheme! I applied for this role because it was advertised as an office job with duties regarding social media, administration and making client connections. So far so good, even if the rest of the job description was a bit vague, I still applied because the pay was good and it looked like a nice entry level job. In the first initial 15-minute interview nothing about the job was explained to me, i.e. the day to day duties and getting to know me as a potential candidate. The CEO kept talking about himself (1st red flag) and how he wants to expand to the rest of the UK saying he wants to promote new graduates to manager positions in less than a year before sending them out to open other offices for him (2nd red flag). I got off the zoom call still being optimistic and hoping the 'real' interview would shed more light. Next day comes and I'm fully prepared (waking up at 6 AM and spending time practicing the answers to the questions they might ask me for such a position) and then nothing. The interviewer spent 2/3 of the interview telling me about the company yet NOTHING about what this job entails on a daily basis and kept going on and on about how the CEO was a gym instructor who failed to open his own gym before opening the company (3rd red flag). I wasn't asked about my skills or my experience or how I would be competent for this job (you know the usual job description questions) or what a day in the job would be like. I tried weaving in my skills because that’s what you do in a proper interview and said I'm very creative and social media savvy being able to create online content/graphics etc. The interviewer looked at me like I just told them the sky was green. They told me, ‘you know we don't actually do social media, right?’ I panicked at first thinking I mixed it up with another job but I pulled up the job description and read to them the line that clearly stated ‘social media duties and administration’, the interviewer quickly brushed it off and said ‘oh yeah that comes after when you become manager.’ When I asked how the sales will be conducted they said 'it's at events and trips and stuff' (they promote the fact that you get to travel to places like Dubai in the future to get you excited). In the end I had to answer a stupid questionnaire that asked random questions like 'what is the benefit of having no seniority or having a commissions-based pay'. Long story short I was offered the job and being in the midst of a pandemic I took it because I couldn't turn down a job that supposedly pays £20,000 (I still thought this was an office job). On the first day of training THAT'S when they told me this job isn't actually office based but that you go from door to door or at shopping centres to try and get people to donate to charities or buy things from you. I asked how many hours the daily shifts were and they said 8 hours. I mentioned how on the website it says it’s from 8 to 6 (a total of fifty hours per week, which is ILLEGAL by the way). Again they brushed it off and said ‘yeah you only spend 2 hours in the office (from 9 to 11) and then the rest of the day you spend it in the field’ as if those extra two hours don’t count! That was it, I said no after that initial training session and seeing from the other comments on here I’m sure I did the right thing. I ended up talking to an ex classmate of mine and when I mentioned the name of the company she told me she had a very similar experience with them only she was unlucky enough to actually go in for a day. The company essentially promotes this slave like job under different fancy names. She told me how they made her rehearse the same script for four hours and then sent her to a crowded shopping centre back in August (hello, coronavirus!) to essentially harass people into buying the products the company was promoting. The other people working with her said that the working hours are more like 14 hours a day in order to hit their sales targets and get paid. The pay is nowhere near £20,000 and it’s all commissions based. They’re super unethical, unprofessional and they take advantage of young, impressionable graduates who want to start their careers. STAY FAR AWAY FROM THEM!

Sales Communication Assistant

Interviewed at Bamboosh

4.1★
Feb 17, 2021

SCAM! A genuine pyramid scheme! I applied for this role because it was advertised as an office job with duties regarding social media, administration and making client connections. So far so good, even if the rest of the job description was a bit vague, I still applied because the pay was good and it looked like a nice entry level job. In the first initial 15-minute interview nothing about the job was explained to me, i.e. the day to day duties and getting to know me as a potential candidate. The CEO kept talking about himself (1st red flag) and how he wants to expand to the rest of the UK saying he wants to promote new graduates to manager positions in less than a year before sending them out to open other offices for him (2nd red flag). I got off the zoom call still being optimistic and hoping the 'real' interview would shed more light. Next day comes and I'm fully prepared (waking up at 6 AM and spending time practicing the answers to the questions they might ask me for such a position) and then nothing. The interviewer spent 2/3 of the interview telling me about the company yet NOTHING about what this job entails on a daily basis and kept going on and on about how the CEO was a gym instructor who failed to open his own gym before opening the company (3rd red flag). I wasn't asked about my skills or my experience or how I would be competent for this job (you know the usual job description questions) or what a day in the job would be like. I tried weaving in my skills because that’s what you do in a proper interview and said I'm very creative and social media savvy being able to create online content/graphics etc. The interviewer looked at me like I just told them the sky was green. They told me, ‘you know we don't actually do social media, right?’ I panicked at first thinking I mixed it up with another job but I pulled up the job description and read to them the line that clearly stated ‘social media duties and administration’, the interviewer quickly brushed it off and said ‘oh yeah that comes after when you become manager.’ When I asked how the sales will be conducted they said 'it's at events and trips and stuff' (they promote the fact that you get to travel to places like Dubai in the future to get you excited). In the end I had to answer a stupid questionnaire that asked random questions like 'what is the benefit of having no seniority or having a commissions-based pay'. Long story short I was offered the job and being in the midst of a pandemic I took it because I couldn't turn down a job that supposedly pays £20,000 (I still thought this was an office job). On the first day of training THAT'S when they told me this job isn't actually office based but that you go from door to door or at shopping centres to try and get people to donate to charities or buy things from you. I asked how many hours the daily shifts were and they said 8 hours. I mentioned how on the website it says it’s from 8 to 6 (a total of fifty hours per week, which is ILLEGAL by the way). Again they brushed it off and said ‘yeah you only spend 2 hours in the office (from 9 to 11) and then the rest of the day you spend it in the field’ as if those extra two hours don’t count! That was it, I said no after that initial training session and seeing from the other comments on here I’m sure I did the right thing. I ended up talking to an ex classmate of mine and when I mentioned the name of the company she told me she had a very similar experience with them only she was unlucky enough to actually go in for a day. The company essentially promotes this slave like job under different fancy names. She told me how they made her rehearse the same script for four hours and then sent her to a crowded shopping centre back in August (hello, coronavirus!) to essentially harass people into buying the products the company was promoting. The other people working with her said that the working hours are more like 14 hours a day in order to hit their sales targets and get paid. The pay is nowhere near £20,000 and it’s all commissions based. They’re super unethical, unprofessional and they take advantage of young, impressionable graduates who want to start their careers. STAY FAR AWAY FROM THEM!

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