I used to sell Sainsburys Mobile back in the day.
That was brilliant. My mate got me in on it with him which made it so much more fun.

Basically a two day training course all expenses paid in a hotel outside Birmingham. This was one of those things where you put your name on a bit of card and then do the ice breakers, where you had to introduce the person next to you(I swear people get paid to make these things up!). Dinner and drinks in the bar which was a much better way to get to know people. Most of them were a really good laugh, especially the ones from up north.

After that we all got sent out to our designated stores with our (real live working) mobile phone which got good use and sales materials and a promise of £80 a day plus petrol and £10 per contract we sold. Money for old rope!

So basically the job was turning up at Sainsburys for a nice breakfast, then chatting to people all day about phones and having a laugh flirting with women and then leaving early. Might do 3 or 4 contracts on a weekday, but Saturdays would be easily 10+. Best week with petrol and sales i made £750 which was loads to me then. There were not even any sales targets as this was a new thing they were trying out to see what the take up of it was going to be.

Funny thing when we did one week in Milton Keynes, we did loads of sign ups, like 20 a day easily, but hardly anyone passed the credit checks so we did not get paid for them ones! We quickly sussed out that the best customers were the ones coming out of Waitrose opposite and homed in on them instead of the Sainsburys customers!

Good times.

My mate went on to do another job where he got to hand out free packets of Marlboro fags in pubs and concerts but only if people surrendered their other brand fag box first. He was my hero for a while.
(Beaverman Opulence, I has it., Fri 10 Sep 2010, 19:06, Reply)