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My son was offered a job there on the premis that it was a sales job...Sales Executive was the title on contract....., selling advertising in public service magazines and 'glossies'. After the first week he was then advised that he would need to spend 'several' hours every evening researching MDs and CEOs to big companies to call the next working day. Alarm bells rang when he started telling us some of the lies he was expected to tell these people, also as Stokie Lad said, the bullying and harassment that was the norm. Companies like this give a really bad name to other legitimate sales organisation.
He didn't stay! but thanks to their [***] he was not entitled to reclaim his benefit as he left rather than being sacked just because he felt uneasy about lying. I have advised him not to put it on his CV as I do not think it would be a good idea to be associated with a "company" such as this!!!

HAHAHAHAHA - Nice jab whoever you are!

‘Anthony Snag’ of ‘Public Services’ rang my company a little while ago and engaged a ‘decision maker’ (an executive) in conversation re a forthcoming conference.  The conversation progressed to a sales pitch where the executive was asked if they would like to mount an exhibit at the conference – the cost, £12,000.

Public Services (PS) www.publicservices.co.uk is a publishing company that has a variety of other services (including running exhibitions and conferences).  www.publicserviceevents.co.uk.

Thankfully, the executive took some advice before progressing and this gave some time to check out A. Snag.  I ran a brief background check on the company and it took very little time to uncover some unsavoury details.

Firstly, I wanted to find out what other people had experienced with the company and entered the telephone number into ‘Google’ hoping to get a hit on ‘Who Calls Me’ – I did.

More information came from Telepest www.telepest.co.uk

0121 456 3336     0131 555 3970     0161 832 7387     0178 266 7340

Telepest also gave some other names used by PS including
PSCA
PSCA International / Public Service
Public Service Review Journal
Public Service

Progressing to Companies House website and later Companies in the UK www.companiesintheuk.co.uk
which gave the address, phone, fax and company number (a match for the company website)

The company has previous names – PSCA International Limited (changed 8 March 2011)
Public Service Communication Agency Limited (changed 25 April 2003)
Ever 1887 Limited (changed 20 December 2002)
Also,  PSCA Holdings Limited www.companiesintheuk/ltd/psca-holdings
PSCA Holdings Limited also has a previous name – INHOCO 3458 Limited
Chief Executive – Gordon Warrender.

A business sale report of 4 June 2008 states that PSCA International, the magazine publisher with offices in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh has undergone a management buy-out supported by the Royal Bank of Scotland.  PSCA International has a turnover of £12 million.  http://www.business-sale.com/acquisitions/art ... lish-29608.html

Go to Google search and enter PSCA International (with a space following) and one of the options that will appear is ‘scam’.  This will take you to http://psca-international.blogspot.com

Where a link will take you to the ASA website where a complaint against PSCA international was upheld www.asa.org.uk/Asa-Action/Adjudications/2005/ ... d/CS_39449.aspx

A simple search for people who have worked at PSCA raised numerous hits – the common link to almost all of them was the word ‘sales’ in connection with their employment at PSCA.  Mr Snag however, was not found online.

Conditions for staff working at PSCA have been described as ‘a sweatshop’.  An ex-employee claims that top salesmen earn £15,000 a week (Gordon Warrender denies this and says that the top salesman only earns £11,000 a week).

In our case, we did not take up Mr Snag’s kind offer.  

Given the above, would you have done?

Two of our directors have had annoying calls from this company during the last year.  On both occasions callers were misleading and gave the impression that they worked for the public sector not for a private company.  Both times, it took several minutes before it became clear that they were selling a product despite denying that this was the case. They also denied that they were undertaking a survey despite clearly collecting information and using it the second time they called.  They also used the 'just popped out of a meeting where your name was mentioned' trick.

Do not waste your time with publicservice.co.uk! They wasted several minutes of our time on both occasions which was very frustrating as we do also also get calls from companies who we do want to consider working with.  It also makes it harder for companies who do want to engage with the public sector to do so - grrr!

Publicservice.co.uk now use another guise in the name of scienceomega.com

BEWARE

They have now gone bust, but what's left of them has been bought out by Govnet. Be warned.