XLN Telecom Timothy Craig Con artist London Sydenham
I decided to share my story as I was scammed into working like a slave with no income in London under Timothy Craig. I had move to the UK on a working visa from South Africa in 2006 and miraculously got the job at XLN in Sydenham if I remember correctly. You work your first two weeks free and thereaftee get paid £20 per contract signed doing door to door cold calling. All travel expenses around the whole of London and Brighton is at your own expense! That Yank Timothy Craig was in charge and he talked you into any b*******. I remember he loaned a couple of us desperate newbies a few quid to get a travel pass (oyster card I think it was called) I must have signed up about 40 or so new businesses and he was impressed and offered me the franchise to take over in Jan of 2007. This after I had been there about two months! It was after my 8 week trial run or whatever you want to call it. I cant remember the T's and C's but it sounded way too good to be true. He invited my girlfriend and I to his house for a poker night and dinner to talk it over and that everyone would now be reporting to me as I would be taking over from him. I declined and returned back to SA a few days later. This American piece of s*** is still around 10 years later pulling the same scams all over the UK so please dont fall for his tricks. There is no management position as advertised. There is no money to be made and you work your a** off from 7 to 7 for a few quid that barely covers transport and rent. If i never got an overxraft facility at the bank and won £1500 at Hard rock casino i would have been on the streets that Christmas! I really wish I was still in the UK or I had taken another job instead of that one as its a beautiful country to live in. But the desperate get taken advantage of. Becareful out there.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Timothy J. Craig
Gastonia,North Carolina,
USA
To: Andrew Cuskelly
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, June 22, 2017
You don't need to be anonymous here, Andy. You have my email and mobile, and I'm here if you want to contact me.
Timothy J. Craig
Gastonia,North Carolina,
USA
To the Author: Hammersmith, Alabama
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, June 21, 2017
I'm Timothy Craig, and I would like to reply to you directly. I'll include my contact information here, so you can call and/or write to me directly as well. You've said some pretty harsh things about me in your original report, and it seems you must be under the impression I am still working with XLN in the UK for some reason? I left XLN in 2013, and I returned to the US in 2014, so I'm not sure where you got your information, but I am no longer there, nor with the company. I replied to this report 11 years ago when you wrote it in 2006. I tried to reach out to you then as well, with no response? So, I'm not going to try and debate what you have written here again, or try and defend myself, or justify what happened, or even rebut the specifics of your report this time. It didn't really matter whether they were true and accurate then, or now still. What matters here is that you feel like they are, and you're obviously still distraught about it today. This is your story, your truth, your version of what happened, and your personal feelings about it, and really that's all that matters here, isn't it? I will say the same thing to you, as I said 11 years ago. If you really feel this way, then how could I have not been responsible? You worked for me, which means it was my leadership and management that brought this experience upon you. What you have written about me is not as important as why you wrote it, and that is the only thing that I care about. Not for myself, not for my reputation or credibility, not even for this report - for you. You are someone I thought enough of to hire in the first place, and someone who thinks so little of me and their experience that you wanted to tell the world about it this way. Its not about right & wrong here. Its about how you feel about this, and your feelings are never right or wrong - they just simply are. I don't feel there's anything "right" about this at all whatsoever either, and I still feel obligated to do the right thing here. So, once again, I will ask for the chance to make it right for you. All you have to do is contact me. M: (((REDACTED))) E: tcraig@i-acquisitions.com