Three guys in telesales with mobile phones, looking for some payback.
A few years back a very large mobile selling callcentre in Swansea declared bankruptcy and dropped a few hundred staff into unemployment without paying them their week's wages. Twas not a good time as there were alot of good people dropped directly into the shit due to the owner doing this.

About 2 years later, no-one had got their money back and the original owner had started a new mobile selling company with a slightly different name. Did pretty much exactly the same thing as before; calling up customers or cold-calling and harassing the public into buying these contract phones.

Three guys who used to work for the original company were re-employed into this newly formed callcentre and started work as normal.

Secretly though, they were still pissed at how their old colleagues and themselves were previously shat upon by this boss, so one of them come up with a plan. One of them had a contact in Scotland somewhere and what would happen is that this contact would ring them up and buy a contract phone on the most expensive bundle. They'd ship it off to him and he wouldn't pay a penny back to the company, who'd cut him off after the first month. The three workers who were selling him these were getting paid £40 commission for each sale, even though the company was not actually getting any money back in return......

I can't remember how long it took for them to declare bankruptcy again but before the owners found out what happened the three workers walked away with between £25-30k in commission each before quitting the failed company.

A bit naughty in retrospect but it kinda stopped the owner from selling phones to innocents for another 2 years so I suppose that's a plus.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:01, 1 reply)

Naughty
In the nicest possible way. Owner sounds like pond scum, and certainly shouldn't be allowed to run a business.
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 10:05, closed)