"Instead of an interview", they said
"We'll send you out on the job. You could earn £120 today!"

It was door-to-door chugging on some of the scariest estates in the West Midlands. On the rare occasions that I did convince some senile old dodderer to sign up to give a percentage of their pension to the RSPCA the company did everything in their power to weasel their way out of paying me the £10 commission that comprised the entirety of my wages, because it was basically a pyramid marketing scheme. I spent the next few days in the freezing cold, being told to fuck off about 10 times an hour, but stuck it out for just under two weeks before jacking it in and going back to work at the pub.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 9:30, 13 replies)

Much as I hate chugging,
I do have to admire the way the chuggers keep up their cheery facade. Or are they all just on a two week trial?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 9:35, closed)

A lot of chuggers in London are resting actors
I imagine they're just playing the part of a cheerful person
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 9:52, closed)

Some of them need to work on their improv skills.
The one I met last week froze up after a while.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 10:00, closed)

One of the most reprehensible businesses going
The company running the chuggers take so much commission, the charity practically gets nothing.

I was once chugged outside work by a guy collecting for Shelter.
I was working for Shelter at the time.
They were so clueless they'd sent this poor sod to chug staff outside the company's head office
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 9:59, closed)

Class.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 10:15, closed)

I've done that too.
It was wandering around a desolate London housing estate in the pouring rain for hours that convinced me to jack it in.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 10:15, closed)

After seeing the accounts for the Guide Dogs for the Blind, I lost all belief in charity doing good works.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 10:17, closed)

Have you seen these accounts?
No, but the dog has.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 10:36, closed)

That dog
looks terrible.
(SlantedScience, Thu 28 Nov 2013, 0:23, closed)

That happened to me, years ago.
I was told it was an interview for a trainee marketing assistant.

I was taken out to Rochdale to try and convince people to buy vouchers for gym membership. It was door to door selling, and I quickly figured out that it was a pyramid scheme.

Two hours it took, two hours in the rain wondering if it was worse than being on the dole.

It was. I quite happily told them to shove it, and went off to watch some quality Richard and Judy.

The worst bit? Seeing all the desperate people trying to make the job work, telling themselves that it was the start of a glorious career :(
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 27 Nov 2013, 16:33, closed)

That was the just under two weeks for me
Worrying that I didn't have the "inner strength" to make a glorious career out of it...when I should have realised that it was just a pile of shit and walked away after the first day.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 16:45, closed)

You're not a fast learner,
are you?
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Wed 27 Nov 2013, 23:10, closed)

Rochdale.
Ugh. Poor you.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 28 Nov 2013, 8:52, closed)