Exploitative door-to-door sales with misleading expectations - Anonymous employee Relay Direct Employee Review

They lied about EVERYTHING. They reached out to me first about the role and made it seem like we would be working more on the advertisement face to face and the marketing concepts when in reality it was simply door to door sales. The minimum salary is dependent on how many sales you make and they pressure you into thinking the sales are dependent on your performance when in reality we are pressured to keep talking to people at their house even if they visibly aren't interested. They had hidden the number of hours due to the fact it is typically ~10am to 8pm with only one hour lunch break in between and the rest usually continuous walking. People are even "encouraged" to work on Saturdays alongside the already established 5 days. And you have to pay for your own Uber/travel to the "field" (neighbourhood where you do door to door). The progression is also completely different to what they had initially made it seem, while it is dependent on performance it isn't dependent on self performance but rather making sure at least multiple people are trained to your level in order for you to progress in your career. If you have any questions they tend to move around it by asking more questions, talking about something completely different or making it seem like you weren't paying attention. They used this same tactic to avoid mentioning the hours since working 9+ hours on your feet continuously harassing people at their homes is ridiculous and no one wants someone knocking on their door 3x a day and what the job actually entailed by emphasising it was face to face but hiding the fact it was by knocking doors, they would constantly mention business to business interactions and events but these were rare and not until you reached roughly stage 3. Overall the role seems extremely exploitative of young people especially those that have had to move countries or areas for roles such as these and are unable to back out. Walking continuously for 9+ hours a day just to make an average 5 sales in a day should be investigated. Lunch is also only whatever shops are within the area and bathroom is also just dependent on whatever is in the area which isn't pleasant when you're walking on your feet for continuous hours. The one who took me around while she was lovely she kept assuming customers ethnicities and gender, kept talking to random people on the street when they simply wanted to mind their own business, when people insisted they were busy she would stand close to the door and just Still enforce the pitch regardless if it's clear the customer had expressed they are not interested and these are the "skills" they encourage you to use. If we finish early we are encouraged to simply find more doors to knock on whether we were initially told to knock there or not until it is 8pm. Sometimes shifts can start as early as 9am and end at 8pm which leaves no time for anything else and this is usually for 5 days min with small variances. TLDR: Overall NEVER WORK for these people. They don't teach anything, it is a waste of time, exploitative and simply just door to door sales.