to think this is one of the worst job interviews ever?

[SlowlorisIncognito]

Someone I know had a job interview yesterday for a door-to-door sales position. The position was advertised with a reasonable salary, and candidates were told they would have to attend a whole afternoon interview/training session, with a break for food.

Now, to me, "a whole afternoon" would mean until 5/5.30, so normal office hours. He didn't actually end up getting home until 11.30pm! During much of this time he was uncontactable, as he had switched his mobile off, so his DP was obviously getting worried about him.

As he had been driven an hour away from the office where he thought the interview would be, he couldn't just walk out. He was unfamiliar with the area he had been taken to. If that was me, I would have been horrified!

He spent the afternoon watching sales take place. This would be fair enough, but he felt the product was being pushed onto elderly people who didn't understand or need it! He had signed an agreement saying he would not speak to clients during "training" and he felt unable to contradict the man "training" him.

Also, the job turned out to be comission only, instead of salaried.

I have said he should contact the job websites he has seen this advert on to let them know it is not truthful.

Needless to say, he hasn't taken the job!

I did an interview just like this.

then, when they finally took me back to the office they realised I was six months away from being 18. No one had bothered to check before interviewing me, sending me on this 'afternoon' you describe and offering me the job. My OH, who is my h2b now, went mental. They allowed myself and another young lass who was at a guess 24ish, to roam around knocking on doors in the street. When I queried how they safe guard you I was told ' surly you'd know if someone wasn't right?'

sure.

all the employees where raving about the £ they make (was clear no one was declaring tax! ) it was a shambles.

like you I felt it was all outright pushyness.

They invited me to a big conference with the promise of a job on my 18th. never heard so much shit in my life. .I was soooo bored..all these door to door salesmen acting like big cocks.

yanbu. Tell him to steer clear.

*in the dark, untill 11. And because my trainer hadn't made a sale I went back alone and she stayed out an extra half hour by herself. was shocked. .

sweetsummerlove that sounds awful :( How do companies get away with doing things like this? I guess they know people are desperate for jobs, so some of them will take it.

If the advert states that there is a basic salary (ie hourly rate or whatever) and the employers say that it's commission only, then the advert is fraudulent and should be reported to the people hosting the ad and the local council, possibly trading standards or something. And if he really wants to bury this shoddy, bent company alive (which he should) then he could maybe have a word with the local paper/proleporn mags like Full House and Take A Break who love this sort of story and might pay him £100 or so if he's prepared to have a photo of himself doing Acute Constipation Face and pointing at the job advert...