I’ve just been “headhunted”, rather unusually, by (or rather on behalf of) a tech sales company…
They sell software mostly, but also the associated hardware. I’m not going to name the company, but it’s POS-related…
Leaving aside the weirdness of the way they “found” me, or how very odd the entire contact has been - if it turns out that this is legit, would you take it?
The base salary is the highest thing I’ve ever been propositioned, and then they claim up to 50% commission on top of that (I believe commission-only is illegal in Aus - hence the base salary). The recruitment was full of weird millennial shit like “Free breakfast!” and a bunch of emojis. It was all very… Cringe. It was also written with really poor grammar, considering this is a tech company, in Australia…
I dunno. I’m yet to ascertain how “legit” it all is, and it is very much too good to be true, but, apart from being parasites, what are your thoughts on that sort of work/company as a whole..?
It’s setting off a whole bunch of red flags, to me, but I’m also willing to… At least communicate with them further, without giving away anything too identifying, simply because I am looking for work.
I dunno. I don’t like this, and I’m trying to be as wary as possible, but the research I’ve done so far suggests that this is how companies like this do things, even if it is utterly alien to me…
Just wondering what people think, beyond “Run a thousand miles the other way”, lol…
Oh, I see. Yes, this makes complete sense.
Before I realised this was probably a scam (you can see my slow mental breakdown over the course of these comments), I had actually thought about this, in relation to one specific thing:
In Aus, now, you are, at many workplaces, corporate or otherwise, generally "obliged" to conduct an "Acknowledgement of (Indigenous) Country" - sovereignty never ceded, yadda yadda, before every meeting, and sometimes, at the start of each day.
Think, the Lord's Prayer, or an oath, or a pledge of allegiance, but woke. It's everywhere, and has spread extremely rapidly, very recently...
I despise the thing. I actively scoff when someone does it, say on a plane, and I patently refuse to play any part of it at, for example, civic and sporting events. It is fundamentally anathema to my beliefs, if you will.
So, what would I do in the event that this company made me play along..? Note, this is never written into employee contacts (at least, in my experience), but is, rather, an "unwritten expectation"... Which makes it all the more nefarious? So, what I settled on is this: I would be willing to sit there, diligently enough, while someone else did it, but if they told me it was my "turn", I would refuse, consequences be damned.
Like, that's where I draw the line. I fundamentally will not do this, even at pain of "disciplinary action" or whatever.
There are a couple of examples of people being let go from voluntary positions, when refusing to do this, and I know of a few local politicians and the like being "censured", but as far as I know, there isn't a test case of anyone in paid employment being sacked for it, yet. Which is something...
So yeah. Very specific example, but I get the idea of what we were all talking about, and agree, thoroughly.