Stream Consumer solutions - has anyone worked for them?

quietsailor

Folks,

Has anyone worked with the company Stream Consumer Solutions before? I've been trying to find info about them on the internetz but all I can get is their own webpage/Facebook/twitter account.

1. Are they such a new company that no-one has heard of them before?
2. The only description of their work is face to face sales - are they talking about cold calling at doors?

Has anyone info on them/have worked for them before and would be willing to share experiences please?

Thank you

Qs

11811

Looking at the website I'd be a little wary. No mention of what their product is or brands they represent. I worked for a similar sounding "company" years ago and it involved a lot of knocking on doors.

evilivor

11811 wrote: »

Looking at the website I'd be a little wary. No mention of what their product is or brands they represent. I worked for a similar sounding "company" years ago and it involved a lot of knocking on doors.

Their offices look impressive.

MrFrisp

They have,or had jobs advertised with most job agencies.

Even gumtree got a hammering from them..:D

http://www.gumtree.ie/fp-stream+consumer+solutions

As already mentioned though,,not one idea of what they actually sell.

Strange.
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Milly33

Yeah I would have the thinking that they are dodge or just another waste of time company... they have jobs.ie and the other site mobbed with ads

quietsailor

Thank you all for answering,

my flatmate is going for an interview with them tomorrow and she's a trusting person, I hope they don't screw her over :mad:, it doesn't look good though. I'll try and report back on how she gets on

Milly33

they might not be now, this is just the general idea as they seem to have a lot of jobs for one company..It would be interesting to know how she gets on with them keep us posted as I am on the look out too for work best of luck to her

horgan_p

Be careful not to mix them up with :
http://www.stream.ie/ - who are reputable.

horgan_p

from http://companycheck.co.uk/company/07361713/STREAM-CONSUMER-SOLUTIONS-LIMITED

Their business activity is recorded as Non-specialised Wholesale Trade.
Translation : door to door sales - tell your friend to take up busking. Theres more money to be made there.

lilmissprincess

A friend of mine did it. Worked 10 hour days five days a week for a month and got paid 150 in total, having had to pay for his transport to and from the places he was knocking...

Run.

miss_shadow

My brother *had* an interview with them until he figured it was market sales. worst job ever!

run_Forrest_run

Within 30 seconds of looking at their website I spotted several grammatical errors, it's the small things that give them away;)

SicklySweet

"We are excited to announce that our new office location is: Unit 34, Penrose Wharf."
That's also where another door to door marketing place is. Had an interview with them a month ago. Tried googling the name and apparently there's 3 different marketing companies in that unit. Unless they're all the same under different names :eek:
Edit: <snip>

quietsailor

thanks for all the replies folks,

My housemate (I'll use her initial "C") went to the working interview with them and came home crying. She went out door-to-door selling with a local manager who rated her and then gave his assesment to the manager on the next level up - something like an area manager I presume. When C said she didn't want the job the local manager started shouting at her that he had given her a good review and now was making him look bad

ffs how can you know a persons work ability & ethic in 2 hrs work, either way the shouting was out of line so she will never work there no matter what else the job was like.

It doesn't sound like a good place to work all in all

Sonics2k

Avoid them. It's another cold-call door to door company.

I used to work for a few companies like that years ago, and while you can sometimes make very good money, you can also go weeks/months without really making a penny. You'd easily spend more than you'd make at times.

Flesh Gorden

quietsailor wrote: »

thanks for all the replies folks,

My housemate (I'll use her initial "C") went to the working interview with them and came home crying. She went out door-to-door selling with a local manager who rated her and then gave his assesment to the manager on the next level up - something like an area manager I presume. When C said she didn't want the job the local manager started shouting at her that he had given her a good review and now was making him look bad

ffs how can you know a persons work ability & ethic in 2 hrs work, either way the shouting was out of line so she will never work there no matter what else the job was like.

It doesn't sound like a good place to work all in all

That kind of thing has been going on for the last 15+ years in the city

In the past similar operations were based out of MacCurtain St, the most infamous being Gallop (not to be confused with Gallup the survey company)

I'd a pretty surreal experience with Gallop a good few years ago which I typed up here:link
Your friends experience sounds identical to my own

Back then it was terrible quality toys and shavers being sold out of a large black rucksack by people in cheap suits.

In recent years similar companies branched off into aggressively trying to cold sell Sky packages and Airtricity, working as agents on behalf of them but not directly for them.

It's pretty difficult to find any information on the original company in America called DS Max who would have invented that type of selling

Except for this: link

Sonics2k

Flesh Gorden wrote: »

That kind of thing has been going on for the last 15+ years in the city

In the past similar operations were based out of MacCurtain St, the most infamous being Gallop (not to be confused with Gallup the survey company)

I'd a pretty surreal experience with Gallop a good few years ago which I typed up here:link
Your friends experience sounds identical to my own

Back then it was terrible quality toys and shavers being sold out of a large black rucksack by people in cheap suits.

In recent years similar companies branched off into aggressively trying to cold sell Sky packages and Airtricity, working as agents on behalf of them but not directly for them.

It's pretty difficult to find any information on the original company in America called DS Max who would have invented that type of selling

Except for this: link

Jaysus, I remember gallop marketing. Worked there for ages. Used to get in trouble for not joining the terrifying dance circle in the morning and other nonsense.

Flesh Gorden

Sonics2k wrote: »

Jaysus, I remember gallop marketing. Worked there for ages. Used to get in trouble for not joining the terrifying dance circle in the morning and other nonsense.

You might have an idea of some of the people I dealt with and mentioned in the first link.


I remember the blonde receptionist's first name changed 3 times in the space of two days and every one of their job ads had a different female contact name.

I think it was a rakish auburn haired lady in her late 30's that chased after me and it was a brother and sister who were running the whole thing.

Everyone in there looked really run down and unhealthy.


I wish now I'd recorded the whole thing as I'd say the likes of the Sunday World would bite your hand off for a story like that.

11811

Sonics2k wrote: »

Jaysus, I remember gallop marketing. Worked there for ages. Used to get in trouble for not joining the terrifying dance circle in the morning and other nonsense.

Oh god having flashbacks of that and the ridiculous bell ringing routine at the end of the day. Can't remember the name of the crowd I was with but was under the same umbrella as gallop but based over in Penrose Wharf. The "job" was absolute hell, was selling discount cards for hotels and then BT phone connections.

I'm amazed how these types of businesses are still going.

Cool_CM

Sonics2k wrote: »

Jaysus, I remember gallop marketing. Worked there for ages. Used to get in trouble for not joining the terrifying dance circle in the morning and other nonsense.

Went for an interview with them ages ago, was sent around on an "on the job" interview with some American guy i.e. going around attempting to sell tat to people who were working in shops around the city centre.

I terminated my own "interview".

Lemag

I went for an interview with Gallop about 10 years ago. During the interview I was told that they were one the top 3/5 (can't remember exactly which) marketing firms in the world. They had their logo pinted out on A4 paper and stuck up around their office. When I enquired about their website I was told that they were working on it. My experience with them ended there pretty much.

Sonics2k

Flesh Gorden wrote: »

You might have an idea of some of the people I dealt with and mentioned in the first link.


I remember the blonde receptionist's first name changed 3 times in the space of two days and every one of their job ads had a different female contact name.

I think it was a rakish auburn haired lady in her late 30's that chased after me and it was a brother and sister who were running the whole thing.

Everyone in there looked really run down and unhealthy.


I wish now I'd recorded the whole thing as I'd say the likes of the Sunday World would bite your hand off for a story like that.

I do remember them, including that little balding gobsheen K**th who ran the place, and his sister.

I actually felt so sorry for the people working there who took it seriously and got all involved. I'd happily stroll in late, grab my bag and leave. The "manager" (if you can call him that) used to have a fit about it, but I just told him to keep it down and let me sell the crap and go home.

hazelboots

Absolutely avoid I would say.

I actually had in mind another company based out in Santry when I applied for this job. These guys are based in the same premises as another cold calling, commission only dodgey sales company.

I just shot in a CV, no cover letter or anything to see what would happen. They emailed me back with a time slot for an interview for the day after. Usually an employer will call and not email to arrange an interview.

1JDog

Had an interview there today. Packed with applicants, a hot blonde receptionist with two stout guys also there. They seemed very enthusiastic when they rang me for the interview, got a call and Emma told me that her managing director was very excited to meet me..Lol, Im good but not that good.

I completely took the piss on the form that they asked me to fill in and for some reason I was offered a place in their 'On-the-Job Experience' day tomorrow. Adds all over the Internet. Seems a complete joke to be honest. Would like to know what type of experiences people had on this day

SicklySweet

1JDog wrote: »

Had an interview there today. Packed with applicants, a hot blonde receptionist with two stout guys also there. They seemed very enthusiastic when they rang me for the interview, got a call and Emma told me that her managing director was very excited to meet me..Lol, Im good but not that good.

I completely took the piss on the form that they asked me to fill in and for some reason I was offered a place in their 'On-the-Job Experience' day tomorrow. Adds all over the Internet. Seems a complete joke to be honest. Would like to know what type of experiences people had on this day

I did one in April. You get teamed up with another few applicants and a "leader" who works for the company anyway. We went to Carrigtwohill, another group went to Whitechurch. Basically we went up and down the street 3 times (to return to the houses that didn't answer the door), taking it in turns to knock on the door with the leader to see what they did. Then we went to another street and done the same, before returning to the first street again to see if we could get those final few people that didn't answer the door the other 3 times. 10 hours total. Bring a lunch :P

cantdecide

SicklySweet wrote: »

I did one in April. You get teamed up with another few applicants and a "leader" who works for the company anyway. We went to Carrigtwohill, another group went to Whitechurch. Basically we went up and down the street 3 times (to return to the houses that didn't answer the door), taking it in turns to knock on the door with the leader to see what they did. Then we went to another street and done the same, before returning to the first street again to see if we could get those final few people that didn't answer the door the other 3 times. 10 hours total. Bring a lunch :P

Exploitation, Ted.

lilmissprincess

They seem to be the same company as one I inteviewed for a few months back, my tale of my "interview" is here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83836988&postcount=82

1JDog

@SicklySweet, you were hardly paid were you? And Im guessing that they took on anyone with half a brain..

SicklySweet

No, wasn't paid work, but our train tickets were bought for us? :pac:
And i do believe they hire anyone. When the owner of the company hired me, the leader had the most priceless "Oh fúck" look on his face because i would have been put onto his team. Because i got bored after 3 hours and started getting grumpy.
I said i'd take the job but thinking about it over the weekend, i decided not to.

UpCork

Thanks all for the 'heads up' on this.

I am currently sending out a rake load of CVs in order to try to get a marketing job. I was 'taken in' initially by the advertisement as not needing any experience so I sent out my CV to them and several other similar companies. It was only after doing so that I realised they were probably all much of a muchness as they were all in the same location.

It taught me a good lesson though - read the job desciption thoroughly. I was taken in by the graduate and full training - which I was thinkng was like an 'on the job' training in a marketing firm - at my age you'd think I wouldn't be so naive - but the small print was talking about face to face sales i.e. door to door selling. Ad never mentioned needing to drive etc which might have set alarm bells ringing.

Anyway, got an email then a call from Stream offering me an interview - was delighted, then did a bit of research and found this thread. Needless to say I didn't go for interview - lesson learned. I would hate a door to door sales role like that.

Was so glad of boards.ie - in future I'll do research before sending out CVs

Outcastangel

I got a job with them about 2 months ago, not being from Cork I had no idea how dodge Penrose Wharf was. I was leaving a job for this. THANK GOD I didn't.

I went out on my first days training and was mortified when we finally made a sale. My self and the guy who was training me in were leaving after making the sale and giving the general bull**** and he asked for a cigarette!?!?
The woman who was young enough was taken aback but of course gave him one! Then he turned and said take one to me, even though I was dying for a smoke I was way to embarrassed to take it!

All of them that work there say how they make so much money but as I only seen one sale I doubt they make much! I didn't show up for the second day of training!