Sensee ? [TEXT DELETED BY FORUM TEAM] company or not

new_comper_sara

Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone had any experiance with the work from home company sensee?

I'm trying to find out some up to date information on them but everything seems years old and I can't seem to see anyone who has actually worked for them, just had interviews.

AP007

http://www.sensee.co.uk/

??

they are an agency?

new_comper_sara

Yeah but I can't seem to find anyone who has recently been employed by them on the working from home jobs so I was just curious as I've read they keep your first week wage until you have finished your probation period.

All I see when I google the reviews is how brilliant the company is to work for and no one actually working for them just endless interviews.

claret_mike

Why would anyone want to allow someone to keep their 1st weeks wage? Why would they not have confidence for people to not complete probations periods?

That alone would spell out trouble ahead.

gb12345

Would you want to work for a company that lies about its registered address and only lets you communicate with it via a web form?

Or perhaps a company that hides its website registration details by pretending to be a non-trading individual?

Not to mention its pitiful financial position.

Depth_of_Field

I have been a long time lurker on the MSE forums and thought I'd register just to reply to this thread. (I used to work for the company)

I can assure you that Sensee are not a scam. The reason why they keep the 1st week's wage is due to the fact that they put new employees through 4 weeks of online training. They keep the 1st week's wage as a retainer and pay it to you after you complete your probationary period. I was told that they did this because some people used to purposefully undergo the training and then quit.

I worked for Sensee as a Home Call Centre Agent (the client was a well known catalogue order company). Overall, I thought the company was very good. Wages were paid on time through BACS etc.

However, I decided to quit as I didn't feel the job was suited to me. I was getting depressed day-to-day answering calls (I had never worked in a call centre before) and felt a bit isolated from the outside world. I will never work in a call centre based job again, that's for sure; it just isn't for me.

Feel free to ask any further questions.

claret_mike

Clearly you will be challenged about 1st post and trying to prove the company is not a scam.

I still don't get why they need a retainer.. Surely if you were an established company with established means, you would put in a condition of the employment that if the person resigns from the position within x number of weeks then they will owe Y amount and then deduct from final payment?

Anyway - I wouldnt work under these conditions..

Depth_of_Field

claret_mike wrote: »

Clearly you will be challenged about 1st post and trying to prove the company is not a scam.

I still don't get why they need a retainer.. Surely if you were an established company with established means, you would put in a condition of the employment that if the person resigns from the position within x number of weeks then they will owe Y amount and then deduct from final payment?

Anyway - I wouldnt work under these conditions..

To be honest, I was expecting to be challenged for being a new poster. I can fully understand and appreciate the reason why.

I think you make a good point about deducting the pay from the final salary payment if one resigns early. However, what happens if someone chooses to resign straight after receiving their first month's pay. The company wouldn't be able to deduct any wages as the final payment would have already been transferred to the former employee's bank account. They would have wasted 4 weeks of time, effort and financial resources into training a person.

I guess this is problem that all companies face when employing new people - the cost of training is not cheap and there is always a risk of people leaving prematurely.

I'm not trying to defend the company or its practices, but I do understand why they do this, especially when you consider the staff retention rates for call centre type work.

antrobus

Depth_of_Field wrote: »

...I can assure you that Sensee are not a scam. ..

Depends on how you define 'scam' I imagine.

On the plus side, Sensee Ltd do exist, and they're even on the Financial Services Register as an appointed representative of Aviva Insurance Limited. So they're a legitimate company.

However they do seem rather confused about the location of their registered address, not to mention the purpose of actually having one, and (perhaps most importantly) they do appear to be insolvent to the tune of £1,684,880. Or at least they were last April. So I'm not so sure that I'd want to put myself in the position where they owed me any money.

Depth_of_Field

antrobus wrote: »

Depends on how you define 'scam' I imagine.

On the plus side, Sensee Ltd do exist, and they're even on the Financial Services Register as an appointed representative of Aviva Insurance Limited. So they're a legitimate company.

However they do seem rather confused about the location of their registered address, not to mention the purpose of actually having one, and (perhaps most importantly) they do appear to be insolvent to the tune of £1,684,880. Or at least they were last April. So I'm not so sure that I'd want to put myself in the position where they owed me any money.

A good analysis.

PlutoinCapricorn

Depth, there are some very knowledgeable people on this forum so it is worth sticking around. Be careful though, or you may end up addicted!