v unhappy with job/employer - help!

fancyfred

Strider590 wrote: »

Get yourself fired so you can get onto jobseekers (you get no help if you just leave)
Word your CV so that it looks like you left the company due to their unethical practices (look like a hero)

Sorted!

(almost)

thanks Strider. good advice.

Emmzi

I advise against this on your cv - it is easy to interpret you as a "difficult employee" rather than a "hero"

Googlewhacker

I agree with Emzi, if someone has dismissed or doesn't get a referance from their last company then I would avoid like the plague.

Strider590

fancyfred wrote: »

i have to work with being shouted at when i'm not able to "dupe"/convince prospects into signing up on the strength of a 10 minute phone call. any advice anyone?

Phone the bosses elderly mom and sell her the fatest most costly product you have

Pound

Strider590 wrote: »

Get yourself fired so you can get onto jobseekers (you get no help if you just leave)
Word your CV so that it looks like you left the company due to their unethical practices (look like a hero)

This is a great way of making yourself unemployable.

Who is going to employ someone who can't give a reference from their last employer but bìtches about them on their CV?

CCFC_80

fancyfred wrote: »

thanks Strider. good advice.

Bad advice I'm afraid getting yourself sacked will be considered the same as leaving your job voluntarily, a possible sanction of JSA up to 26 weeks.

mkent

The company was it called Advantage Telecom or Select Calls? Im reasarching telecoms companies who mislead and miss sell customers and treat staff very badly for a documentary. Please inbox me for me details

nzmegs

Try to make yourself feel better about your job by collecting as much information as you can regarding this mis-selling. Get documentary evidence of complaints, note when you have been shouted at or sworn at. Write everything down. This will make you feel that at least you are being proactive. In the meantime do your job in the most ethical way you can. This means knowing your product really well so you can sell it properly, making really sure your customer knows what they are signing up to etc.

if it comes to it and you are forced to leave or are fired you may be able to go for constructive dismissal if you have evidence of these types of working conditions.

Do you have any colleagues who feel the same and who might join you in making a complaint? the swearing at east should not happen as it could be construed as bullying.

In the meantime try to get another job.

NMSE12

Sorry to hear about the stress your work is giving to you
Is this common through out the whole company? is there someone more senior than person shouting and swearing who can help? Is there anyone in HR who can aid you??
I understand how difacult it must be, but there are plenty of reputable sales companys out there, i echo whoever sugested going with a recruitment agency (alot are open saturdays) You could always book days off for interveiws etc....

BillTrac

I was very unhappy in my work approx 4 years ago. Working for the one of the most underhand/unethical/immoral employers on the south coast who didn't think twice about shouting/swearing etc. I originally felt the same as the OP. Trapped in a c**p job with seemingly no escape.

Well I couldn't live with myself knowing customers were being lied to so I walked out. I had never been out of work for 38 years since I left school at 16(well 15 as I started my apprenticeship on my 16th birthday)Didn't give a single thought to how I was going to manage without a job, but my mental well-being meant more to me.

Did a few odd jobs, anything really, to pay the bills while looking for another job. Within a few weeks I managed to secure the job I am in now which is my dream job.

My line manager has since said one of the reasons he was willing to employ me was that I seemed happy in myself.