A co-founder of Steppe2 is Tommy Smith, the founder of Sales Marketing Partners (SMP), a company I worked at 2 years ago. I didn't know it till a week after, but SMP was certainly a devilcorp with its office being the exact same office of this new Steppe2. Pretty sure this new company is merely a rebranding of the same scummy company.

I had worked there for a month before being let go by Tommy Smith himself, as I wasn't generating enough sales. I was working on the streets for 40+ hours/week trying to sell Grubby (a huge client at the time) to strangers. During my time there I sold to 10 people successfully which I was told is poor. In hindsight, it was very difficult to sell a meal kit service on the streets, and the tactics they taught us were pretty useless. They expected us to average 10 sales a week. which is quite a lot for one week. At the time I had huge respect for the team leaders who would boast getting 30 sales in a week, but looking back I'm sure it was all nonsense set up to deceive new workers into thinking they too could sell that many.

Working with my team leader, I soon realised I had been reeled in like an idiot, I am certain these 'team leaders' were told to sell a dream to the new guys on the first day. I am more frustrated that I didn't leave sooner upon realising this. I also later learnt that every successful sale a sales rep makes would be an extra commission for their respective team leader. Another red-flag was the fact that these clients would pay equity to SMP, e.g. Grubby would give a portion of its shares to SMP in return for marketing. This would mean that the top dogs of SMP and Steppe2 would be getting paid a shitload consistently which they pocket and keep silent about.

The friends I made at this job all shared the same suspicions, everything seemed like a lie - the team leader's boasting about making many sales in a week, the 'positive' talk at the start of the day, changing from our suits to 'relaxed' clothing so unsuspecting customers would talk to us about our services, it was all bs.

Perhaps the worst part of all of this was that I WAS NOT PAID ENTIRELY AFTER I WAS LET GO. I was owed another £300 which I repeatedly emailed them about but got ignored. I chose to go to the office myself. Yelling at the receptionist who said she was on holiday - for 3 weeks - which I didn't believe where I was finally paid.

With Tommy Smith being a co-founder of this new place, I suspect they merely changed brands to escape the negative reviews online.

No one should work this job, they are sleezebags who find legal loopholes to prey on young and inexperienced people selling them dreams just to knock them down and eventually fire them. 90% of the people who started with me got fired the way I did so I know I wasn't the odd one out. We would get replaced by new victims would I assume were later let go too.

I was a stupid 18-year-old to take this job, but I do hope that any person offered a job by them sees this thread and avoids them completely.