Not sure - Anonymous employee Harper Robson Employee Review

1.0
Feb 20, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to engage in "fun" activities (occasionally chucking a pen around a room to overly loud music) after working a 10 hour shift for the 6th time that week.

Cons

Where to start. First of all Harper Robson is one of the most unprofessional company I could imagine. A typical day would start at around 10am. You would walk into a room and listen to loud music blaring from old speakers that will make you go deaf after an hour. While doing this you would be shown/taught by someone training you. Great!... However you miss half your training as you can't hear a word over this music. Once that unpaid hour of "fun" is out of the way you would then proceed to catch a bus to your destination of work usually a run down area of Edinburgh with vulnerable people around. So far you have worked 2 hours of the day and so far spent £1.60 on a bus to get nothing in return. Once you are at your destination you would go around the rundown estate going door to door trying to desperately sell them something so you can make £10. After 10 hours of running around in uncomfortable shoes all day you get to pay another £1.60 to get back to the "office." It is now 10pm and you then have a furth hour of misery and bursting ear drums. 11pm and you finally get to go home if it isn't a "crew night" where everyone goes out together to have more fun. So you would finally get home about midnight just to go and repeat it all again in 10 hours time. So in short - No hourly rate - Commission based - Embarasment of convincing vulnerable people to sign up for something they don't want. - Long hours (usually 10am til 11pm 6 days a week only getting Sunday off) - No time to have a social life

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

Harper Robson and all it's affiliates at Credico operate under the guise of a professional company, this couldn't be further from the truth. In essence, you will either be going door to door fund raising for charity, trying to convince people to change their energy provider or selling credit cards, or whatever it is that credico (the parent company) decides you have to sell. You will not get a basic rate. It's based purely on commission per sale. Not gonna lie, some people are "good" and can make enough sales to meet the living wage, but for the vast majority of people this just isn't the case. The reason you are paid on commission is because you are "self employed", but you aren't really. You work set hours, you go where you are told and essentially do whatever your manager tells you. You won't ever get a straight answer, and you'll constantly have this carrot dangling in front of you so to speak to convince you to keep working for this scheme. Let's be real, not many people are going to make it to manager and earn the big money managers are supposedly on, but who would want to run one of these ethically and morally corrupt companies exploiting young and vulnerable workers? You would earn more working 35 hours a week at Tesco than 70 hours for Harper Robson. Tesco would probably treat you better too. Google 'Devil corp' for more information on this scam. Its more than just Harper Robson

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