Harper Robson Reviews

Where to start. First of all Harper Robson is one of the most unprofessional company I could imagine. A typical day would start at around 10am. You would walk into a room and listen to loud music blaring from old speakers that will make you go deaf after an hour. While doing this you would be shown/taught by someone training you. Great!... However you miss half your training as you can't hear a word over this music. Once that unpaid hour of "fun" is out of the way you would then proceed to catch a bus to your destination of work usually a run down area of Edinburgh with vulnerable people around. So far you have worked 2 hours of the day and so far spent £1.60 on a bus to get nothing in return. Once you are at your destination you would go around the rundown estate going door to door trying to desperately sell them something so you can make £10. After 10 hours of running around in uncomfortable shoes all day you get to pay another £1.60 to get back to the "office." It is now 10pm and you then have a furth hour of misery and bursting ear drums. 11pm and you finally get to go home if it isn't a "crew night" where everyone goes out together to have more fun. So you would finally get home about midnight just to go and repeat it all again in 10 hours time. So in short - No hourly rate - Commission based - Embarasment of convincing vulnerable people to sign up for something they don't want. - Long hours (usually 10am til 11pm 6 days a week only getting Sunday off) - No time to have a social life

They give you a great speech about expanding, building brands etc. however no one would give me a straight answer. Anyway I got past the initial stage and then I was invited to a training day. This entailed me sitting in a café thinking up 'marketing slogans' while my 'manager' tried to get people to sign up to giving to charities on the street! No one would give me a straight answer but what I gleaned was - It's a self employed basis You will need to pay to get to 'work' in Dundee and Glasgow etc. But, hey, it's tax deductible! During these times you don't need to go home as you all get to 'stay together' which you pay for, so I'm assuming it's a hostel or really cheap b&b. It's not a really serious job. Everyone appears to become a manager after a set time - is this some kind of pyramid scheme??? If any of the above is wrong then it's all because NO ONE would give me a straight answer - and, most worryingly, that included about how much I would actually earn (the ad said starting salary of 17,500)