Wasn’t sure whether to throw this into an ask community or here, but ultimately chose casual convo because I am lowkey also looking for advice lol
I landed a job last week (hired me on the spot, did training 3 days later) as one of those people who stand outside shops/etc. asking people to donate to charities. Reputable charities for the record and without cash donations, so not some scam. But the way this is organised is miserable!! I literally get told where I’m supposed to go the night before I go there. I also get paid exclusively based on how many people I get to donate (this was not on the job ad on Indeed). The job itself is fine, is whatever, but between the chaos of having to schedule my day last minute and never being sure how much I’ll make in a month… I need to hightail it out of here.
I get paid on the 15th of May, would it be inappropriate for me to quit right after? I’ll give two weeks notice of course. My team leader has been super sweet to me and is already telling me I’m a natural and she wants to promote me inside her team… I did hint at the fact this is just a temporary thing for me and what I really want is an office job, but she keeps insisting I should stay and can earn a lot more here (and tbf she makes €3000/month). To be honest this whole structure feels very pyramid scheme-ish lol minus the fact people don’t pay into it.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this or any experience you want to share!
Started in the morning. Resigned by noon.
As far as I was concerned it wasn’t a business I was working for, but rather a criminal enterprise (the crime being fraud), only a really incompetent one.
They were a “tech firm” but their product changed literally daily, depending on who they were trying to sell to. They had no actual product. They had a couple of programmers who would be told every day what the product actually was today who would gnash their teeth and cry. Then they didn’t even have that much. Which didn’t stop them trying to sell it anyway.
Oh man sounds crazy lmao!! With how incompetent they sound I find it hard to imagine they lasted much longer after you left
I didn’t keep track of them. (I kept track of the programmers. They were nice and they landed on their feet.) But it would not surprise me, actually, if they landed in jail.
Was it crypto?
Oh, this predates cryptobros by decades. No, they were “consultants” who were making a “CASE tool”. Except their programmers sat me down and had a very long talk showing me their “product” and mentioned they already had other jobs lined up and were just waiting so they could give their 14-day and walk into the new job. So I handed my resignation in promptly.
Well done, good luck!