marty21
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BBC News - The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
Very strange story , bloke sets up a design agency , hires folk on commission only basis, they pitch for him , some of them do this for months in the hope of BIG COMMISSION, borrow thousands to get them to the big pay off , and it was all a con. I don't understand what he was making out of it (maybe Instagram income ?) . I don't understand why people would go into so much debt on a vague promise of commission.
Many years ago when I first came to London , maybe 89/90 , I went for an interview at a ad sales place . They said I'd have a 12 week training period before I could earn commission, I asked them how I would survive for those 12 weeks , pay my rent , bills , etc. They said they'd lend me the money & I'd pay it back from the commission. I said , so at the end of these 12 weeks , I might turn out to be shit at selling, they might not give me a job, and I'd owe them £3k (I think that was the deal) . They said yes , I said I wasn't interested.
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Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
Dozens of young people were tricked into thinking they were working for a glamorous UK design agency - which didn’t really exist.
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Very strange story , bloke sets up a design agency , hires folk on commission only basis, they pitch for him , some of them do this for months in the hope of BIG COMMISSION, borrow thousands to get them to the big pay off , and it was all a con. I don't understand what he was making out of it (maybe Instagram income ?) . I don't understand why people would go into so much debt on a vague promise of commission.
Many years ago when I first came to London , maybe 89/90 , I went for an interview at a ad sales place . They said I'd have a 12 week training period before I could earn commission, I asked them how I would survive for those 12 weeks , pay my rent , bills , etc. They said they'd lend me the money & I'd pay it back from the commission. I said , so at the end of these 12 weeks , I might turn out to be shit at selling, they might not give me a job, and I'd owe them £3k (I think that was the deal) . They said yes , I said I wasn't interested.