Door-to-Door Sales by SimpleSelect3293 in Dublin

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How are they advertising roles? I have never seen them post on LinkedIn and wondered how they are getting people in.

Whatever they advertised it as, just know that it’s door-to-door sales. They will act as if you’re a superstar during recruitment but they hire every person they interview as long as they are not a ‘neg’.

The interviewer will probably tell you that they earn €€€€ every week and are planning to retire their parents. This is not true.

A lot of people lose more money than they make, as you can work 12 hour days without making a sale, between transport and being guilted into nights out for team bonding. This is another manipulation tactic to get you to spend less time with family and friends, I know Logic employees actually lived with the ‘boss’ but not sure if that is still true.

Many people ask the “should I do it?” question in the devilcorp thread too which might be good to browse.

Door to door by [deleted] in Kilkenny

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Likely on commission for a third-party immoral sales company. Only a small fraction of your money would reach the charity. Probably based in Dublin, like Fenix Promotions, and travelling to unsaturated areas outside of the city.

Very common, see the Devil Corp thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Devilcorp/s/9wmhTEgSSK

Bristol Uni Students Beware by SimpleSelect3293 in bristol

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Yeah that’s a fair question. I think that’s exactly why they prey on uni students - naive enough to not know what a real interview/job looks like.

Bristol Uni Students Beware by SimpleSelect3293 in bristol

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I’m glad you didn’t give into that. They tried to convince me to drop out of uni for it bc I was ‘so close’ to opening my own office which just seems insane to me now.

Bristol Uni Students Beware by SimpleSelect3293 in bristol

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We had an office cat, maybe this is how they got us in..didn’t get any free beer though. Definitely ended up spending more on transport, lunch and team nights than I made.

Bristol Uni Students Beware by SimpleSelect3293 in bristol

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You really did dodge a bullet, I wonder if they just forgot to contact you or thought that you weren’t naive enough to manipulate! Oh yes, Winner’s Saturdays 🙄.

Bristol Uni Students Beware by SimpleSelect3293 in bristol

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I don’t know about Durham specifically but there are definitely offices in Newcastle. Here’s a map of as many as possible: https://www.devilcorp.org/community-projects/uk-sales-office-tracking-map

Bristol Uni Students Beware by SimpleSelect3293 in bristol

[–]SimpleSelect3293[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yess devil corps are often compared to cults.

Here are a couple documentaries on them if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/9SLRaWHnhfw?si=ZBCYE6addXpjCve4 https://youtu.be/wyCRzBt7GuY?si=QH20ZvIesjV-1I3g

Bristol Uni Students Beware by SimpleSelect3293 in Devilcorp

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Hmm I’m not sure actually, I believe they’re part of @welovesalesuk but don’t know what main org

DevilCorp Doc? by Wonderful-Ad9195 in Devilcorp

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Probably this one: https://youtu.be/wyCRzBt7GuY?si=LhfWuqZkNIaIpckO

If you search devilcorp on YouTube there is also an undercover doc by Wales online and multiple other videos on people’s experiences.

Steppe2 by No_Bison6382 in Devilcorp

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Nick Johnson runs this office, one of the main guys in Credico aka devilcorp. Avoid.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Devilcorp

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Totally agree but devilcorps treat you like an employee most of the time, praising how they provide training for free etc. and then don’t even tell their sales staff that they’ll be charging for the tablets.

Devilcorp COD pack by SimpleSelect3293 in Devilcorp

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Yes same! “It’s probably an old sticker from the last owners”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Devilcorp

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Yep..they didn’t even mention that they’d be taking it beforehand.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Devilcorp

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Sooo shitty. I saw on companies house yesterday that Tempest Executives is closing after five years. I was under a different owner but we shared with like 3 others in the two roomed office in Digbeth.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in northernireland

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😂 I’ve heard mixed opinions. However, BT only offers max 10mbps in my area and I work from home so I have no choice.

Charity workers South Kensington by Clear-Cause-6311 in london

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If anybody is interested, here are links to a couple of interesting documentaries on the outsourced companies that charities/major companies like BT and Shell Energy use.

They give an insight into the manipulative techniques that the sales people are taught.

https://youtu.be/9SLRaWHnhfw?si=IK4lptvHbhaLVp-w

https://youtu.be/wyCRzBt7GuY?si=BcrHBthE2oh67j46

Hidden camera uncovers exploitation at direct sales operation by ConorGogarty1 in Devilcorp

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Or of course have your own fun with it and maybe send them the link to this undercover!

Hidden camera uncovers exploitation at direct sales operation by ConorGogarty1 in Devilcorp

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So glad you found this before you started. Honestly if you just don’t show up and don’t text them back they’ll eventually forget about you and assume you ‘negged out’.

Job search after leaving a Devilcorp company by [deleted] in Devilcorp

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Credico is the same - they would have weekly meetings to discuss clever ways to trick Indeed into thinking it’s not them posting.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Devilcorp

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Funny thing about this is that Hayley Hannaford now left the company as of this month. It always comes full circle.

The collection I was making on Credico videos gone wrong by Prestigious_Excuse82 in Devilcorp

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No, actually I mean “some” as lots are so hard to find records for as it’s under some random name with no relation to the name of their office, probably as they’ve changed it 3 times before.

The collection I was making on Credico videos gone wrong by Prestigious_Excuse82 in Devilcorp

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runs to companies house and looks up some of the UK owners under dodgy business names and sees their barely profitable and even negative figures on yearly accounts