And then there was 7

I decide it's time I get a job. A lot of the jobs in Melbourne involve either selling something or working in cafés. I quickly land two sales job interviews. One is for an energy company and the other for a company that delivers groceries to your door. I end up accepting the job selling groceries, as it's a concept I like. The groceries are fresh as they come direct from local farms thus it supports the farmers and the Australian economy. On Friday I along with 10 new recruits attend our training/orientation session where we learn about the different products we would be selling, as well as how to sell door to door. It seems easy enough but we are a bit skeptical on how much money we will make. For the first two weeks we earn a base wage of $300/week, thereafter pay is commission based. In order to make $100 a day we need to sell to at least 4 customers. All but one of us decides to give it a go, for the first two weeks anyways. Monday I show up for my first day at 10:30am and notice that out of the original 11 that started with me, there are now only 8. We are split into 3 teams and introduced to our team leaders, both of mine are 23 one from the UK and the other is a fellow Canadian. We pile into a van that smells like feet and head off to our turf. I walk around with my Canadian boss for a few houses to get the hang of things and then head out on my own. Everyone is friendly and I make small talk with most of them, I even get invited into houses. No one is buying and I can't convince them that they need to sign up with me at their door. Once they ask if they can check out the service online, or tell me that they are really busy I end up apologizing, and let them know that yes they can check us out online. I manage to get 1 sale by days end, if I was working on commission I'd earn 15$ for what ended up being a 12 hour day. On the way home one of the team leader asks if we object to him drinking while he's driving, we're all shocked, he goes on saying not to worry it only happens Thursday and Friday once we leave turf. Oh thank god, cause I hear it's much safer to drink and drive on Thursdays and Fridays versus other days of the week. Once I'm home I crash and 8 hours later I begrudgingly get up for day 2. We start the day off having a BBQ with the entire office and then head to turf. After a few hours on my turf I start receiving texts from one of the leaders, at first they are motivating talking about how we are a family and together we will reach our goals. He then asks for our scores, clearly he did not get the answer he was hoping for as his subsequent texts take on a different tone. In his attempt to motivate he tries to instil fear, saying if we don't reach our respective targets there will be punishments. Rewards such as bbq's are off the table and he may also have to start asking people to leave the family. He then sends me text after text asking what my sales are, I choose to ignore him and his tirade. On the way home after getting scolded for not meeting target, one of the team leaders says never again will he pop E at 3am and come down from it while at work. I laugh out loud and shake my head, I feel like I'm in some sort of weird twilight zone. On Wednesday I wake up to gorgeous weather, the high is supposed to reach +34. It has been awhile since Melbourne has had a hot sunny day. I stroll into the office and sit down for our team meeting. I look around the room and everyone is staring attentively at our leaders as they go over how to fill out the order form properly, and then start in on how we need to be selling more. I'm not sure if it's because of the weather or the realization that I can't possibly spend one more day taking orders from these guys, either way I'm done. So I get up say I'm not doing this anymore and walk out. It felt fucking liberating. I received emails from the management team asking why I quit I couldn't decide whether to tell them if it was that I loathed the job itself, or I could no longer tolerate irresponsible, harassing 23 year olds as my bosses. I decide on both.