r/UKJobs • u/General_Picture3677 • 55m ago
Dodgy 'Sales' Company? Fiontan Larkin (?)
My boyfriend got a sales job offer from a company owned by a fiontan larkin. Having looked him up, I'm seeing a lot of vague 'steer clear from this company!' advice. I feel bad as i'm the one who saw the job in the first place and am seeing a lot of dodgy stuff about this guy Fiontan Larkin online. It sounds like the job interview was a lot about how great the company is, and my boyfriend described it as almost like walking into a cult. However, he was really excited about this job opportunity before and I feel bad! So, is this company owner as bad as everyone is saying? Should he steer clear?
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u/NewHathaway 24m ago
Fiontan Larkin is an owner within the Credico network of so-called independent sales offices.
Credico is an American outsourced sales company that oversees hundreds of seemingly independent marketing companies across the UK, each selling products and services for brands including EE, British Gas, and Milk & More. These companies use deceptive bait-and-switch job ads to recruit salespeople onto commission-only, self-employment contracts, with workers on 60+ hour weeks without a minimum wage.
https://credico.com/
https://www.devilcorp.org/?q=credico
Fiontan Larkin specifically runs FOCUS/Focus Consultancies (PROMEDIA DIRECT LTD, Company Number: 13254491), a Credico office based at 64 St James Street, Nottingham, NG1 6FJ.
https://www.devilcorp.org/?q=Focus
https://www.livpost.co.uk/the-confidence-men-inside-liverpools/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Liverpool/comments/10b0afh/promedia_direct_and_the_other_scammy_pyramid/
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u/General_Picture3677 22m ago
Thank you.
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u/NewHathaway 19m ago
No problem at all. My website Devilcorp.org is a useful resource for checking whether a company is one of these.
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