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  • 19-08-2010 8:09pm
    #1
    loopyloulilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭loopyloulilly


    Hi Guys,

    I would like to share my experience with Encore Acquisitions. They are only pirates!! :mad: Applied for the job position (Admin/sales position) which i knew was door 2 door don't get me wrong. Anyhoo the interview came around, the interviewer asked me why do you think you are suitable for the job. So I reapplied with (not the direct qoute) well seeing as the requirements for the job is access to a car. He interputed me and said "no that wasn't the job that we advertised!!":eek: What the funk... but like.. "NO no this is Junior Marketing Executive". So being as gullible as the next went I away chuffed!

    Got called back to the second interview where you meet certain cleints, assistant managers and like. To my surprise they wanted me to drive out to salthill and meet clients. So we made our way out, on my diesel may i had, and there i was MEETING CLIENTS MY ELBOW!! :mad: grrr

    Bloody waste of time business 2 business shadowing the other rep selling broadband!! That was the second interview what load of bull.

    Do not trust this crowd.


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  • #2
    stiffler123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭stiffler123


    Ya If it's the guys I'm thinking of, they used to work for a group called cobra, bad news, intense brainwashing, ridiculously long weeks and F all money, you did the right thing.


  • #3
    rightwingdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭rightwingdub


    ah yes Cobra Group, I wonder if that office in Capel Street is still around.


  • #4
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    loopyloulilly wrote: »
    Hi Guys,

    I would like to share my experience with Encore Acquisitions. They are only pirates!! :mad: Applied for the job position (Admin/sales position) which i knew was door 2 door don't get me wrong. Anyhoo the interview came around, the interviewer asked me why do you think you are suitable for the job. So I reapplied with (not the direct qoute) well seeing as the requirements for the job is access to a car. He interputed me and said "no that wasn't the job that we advertised!!":eek: What the funk... but like.. "NO no this is Junior Marketing Executive". So being as gullible as the next went I away chuffed!

    Got called back to the second interview where you meet certain cleints, assistant managers and like. To my surprise they wanted me to drive out to salthill and meet clients. So we made our way out, on my diesel may i had, and there i was MEETING CLIENTS MY ELBOW!! :mad: grrr

    Bloody waste of time business 2 business shadowing the other rep selling broadband!! That was the second interview what load of bull.

    Do not trust this crowd.
    It took me 3 attempts to decipher this!! I hope you take more care writing your cover letters?


  • #5
    sinjin_smythe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 995 ✭✭✭sinjin_smythe


    loopyloulilly wrote: »
    Hi Guys,

    I would like to share my experience with Encore Acquisitions. They are only pirates!! :mad: Applied for the job position (Admin/sales position) which i knew was door 2 door don't get me wrong. Anyhoo the interview came around, the interviewer asked me why do you think you are suitable for the job. So I reapplied with (not the direct qoute) well seeing as the requirements for the job is access to a car. He interputed me and said "no that wasn't the job that we advertised!!":eek: What the funk... but like.. "NO no this is Junior Marketing Executive". So being as gullible as the next went I away chuffed!

    Got called back to the second interview where you meet certain cleints, assistant managers and like. To my surprise they wanted me to drive out to salthill and meet clients. So we made our way out, on my diesel may i had, and there i was MEETING CLIENTS MY ELBOW!! :mad: grrr

    Bloody waste of time business 2 business shadowing the other rep selling broadband!! That was the second interview what load of bull.

    Do not trust this crowd.


    Ive read this 3 times now and havent a clue what your on about. You hurt my brain


  • #6
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    It took me 3 attempts to decipher this!! I hope you take more care writing your cover letters?
    weedhead wrote: »
    Ive read this 3 times now and havent a clue what your on about. You hurt my brain

    I don't think the problem lies with the OP.


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  • #7
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    The door to door creeps are real scumbags.


  • #8
    rightwingdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭rightwingdub


    Denerick wrote: »
    The door to door creeps are real scumbags.

    used to do the door to door stuff but I promise I'm not a scumbag just an ordinary white collar criminal:rolleyes:


  • #9
    loopyloulilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭loopyloulilly


    weedhead wrote: »
    Ive read this 3 times now and havent a clue what your on about. You hurt my brain

    oops I do tend to waffle on.. my bad, :( but I was quite raged writing it.


  • #10
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,090 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Denerick wrote: »
    The door to door creeps are real scumbags.

    No, they are unfortunate poor divils who are desperately trying to make a living without claiming benefit. I don't buy at the door, but it doesn't make them scumbags.


  • #11
    tenchi-fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭tenchi-fan


    looksee wrote: »
    No, they are unfortunate poor divils who are desperately trying to make a living without claiming benefit. I don't buy at the door, but it doesn't make them scumbags.

    There's nothing stopping people from putting a small sign on the door saying "no unsolicited selling please"

    I put a sign on the door saying "no charity bags, stickers, free newspaper or advertisements" and it worked most of the time, apart for some illiterate idiots who pushed junk mail through the door anyway.


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  • #12
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    looksee wrote: »
    No, they are unfortunate poor divils who are desperately trying to make a living without claiming benefit. I don't buy at the door, but it doesn't make them scumbags.

    I'm not calling the actual salespeople scumbags, I'm saying operations like the Cobra group etc. are absolute scum. They are the equivilent of a legalised mafia (Without violence)


  • #13
    rightwingdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭rightwingdub


    looksee wrote: »
    No, they are unfortunate poor divils who are desperately trying to make a living without claiming benefit. I don't buy at the door, but it doesn't make them scumbags.

    When I did door to door sales there were people I worked with who were claiming the dole, we got paid cash in hand and of course the owners didn't even check out references, I also wouldn't be suprised if they didn't even check out security checks for criminal records.


  • #14
    Lexi Juicy Yak
    Posts: 0 ✭ Lexi Juicy Yak


    looksee wrote: »
    No, they are unfortunate poor divils who are desperately trying to make a living without claiming benefit. I don't buy at the door, but it doesn't make them scumbags.

    Actually, a lot of them are scumbags. I went on one of these things ages ago and most of them had criminal convictions for drink driving or assault and they racially insulted any foreign people who turned down their offer of Sky (behind their backs of course :rolleyes:) The guy I was shadowing started ranting about a guy being a Paki bastard because he spoke with an accent and had a bit of trouble understanding your man's knackery speech.


  • #15
    rightwingdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭rightwingdub


    Lexi Juicy Yak wrote: »
    Actually, a lot of them are scumbags. I went on one of these things ages ago and most of them had criminal convictions for drink driving or assault and they racially insulted any foreign people who turned down their offer of Sky (behind their backs of course :rolleyes:) The guy I was shadowing started ranting about a guy being a Paki bastard because he spoke with an accent and had a bit of trouble understanding your man's knackery speech.

    Where I worked there was one guy who was fired because he apparently went around house to house in a dodgy area in Dublin looking for cash donations over a week period according to the owner, we later found out that was bs.


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