I had to push that crap for 6 years in a previous job. A lot of our customers were on low incomes (we had to get all this data to fill out their applications), a lot of them in social housing and living off benefits, and we had to push. We had a lot of pressure to get these, and having high anxiety at the time, I let them doormat me into being the one who had to pick up the slack for underperforming colleagues. Some would outright just refuse and the manager would come to me (the same manager who victim blamed me when I was physically assaulted by another manager) and tell me I needed to make up the shortfall. And I would because my anxiety was just too high to start a confrontation.

Ours was with barclaycard, and not only was the commission ridiculously low, they also pretaxed it before we got it. Either that or the company was creaming a bit off for themselves, because it was never a round number in the payslips.

That business deserved to die.