To wonder if commission-only jobs ever work out?

[JunieBabes]

I have had two interviews in the past week for sales jobs and it was announced at both interviews that the position was 'commission only'

I have only worked on this basis once in the past and the company complete ripped staff off pretending sales hadn't gone through when they hadn't.

Has anyone had any good experiences of working on a commission only basis?

AIBU to think it's a way for companies to get free labour and to rip people off?

Are you based in the UK? If so, "commission only" jobs are illegal. All UK employers have to pay at least the National Minimum Wage to all UK employees.

Don't do it.

By law they have to ensure you are making minimum wage as the bare minimum although this can be commission and then topped up by salary.

Unless you can survive on MW only, look elsewhere.

They all also claim you're 'self employed' yet expect you to act like their employee and apply for holidays off etc

And yep, all in UK

In all honesty with the skill shortage that we have right now in the UK there’s absolutely no reason whatsoever for you to be putting up with this nonsense there’s plenty of jobs out there.

Was the job advertised as commission only?

Either way I wouldn’t do it. Even if they do pay out commission, anything commission based involves hard selling, and that in itself is pretty unpleasant.

No, both advertised as 'competitive rates of pay' 😂

I don't know the law but like others have said I'm pretty sure that's illegal in the UK.

There's no way I'd be doing that.

where were they advertised? Because if on one of the job advertising sites such as indeed you really should report them.

Yep, both on Indeed

Also some jobs charge their staff a fee to earn commission. More red flags than a Communist rally

Report them.

Name and shame on local FB and here

Ask your MP to get involved

I would report them. If the adverts are still up there then report those, and if not then send them an email to report the company. I have twice reported companies on there. One was someone who had somehow got my details from there are was harassing me, like some kind of hard sell business, and the other one was an advert for a voluntary role which was clearly a full-time role which should have been paid, but the uni/professor being advertised didn’t exist when I googled. The advert was taken down within hours.

Hmmm, DH's company is heavily commission weighted. They all have a basic salary of something like £17k but the average sales person comes out with about £27k. The problem is their industry is very seasonal so some months they're rolling in cash and other months they're on the bones of their arse.

I can't see how a fully commission only job can work out. You can't ever guarantee sales!

I occasionally quite like browsing indeed, I never have any intention of applying for jobs but the job market intrigues me. I like to keep an eye on it.

I have noticed a huge influx of these types jobs lately.

Care jobs have also made a huge comeback as well.

It really annoys me how these companies are trying to break the law by not even paying minimum wage and by making everyone be 'self employed'

No. I wouldn’t touch these with a barge pole

One of the companies actually phoned me yesterday to offer me the 'job'; 40 hours a week, commission only, 'self employed', any time off/holiday would be unpaid and must be authorised by the company etc. I turned it down!