“I Enjoyed Being A TV Licence Enforcement Officer” - I’m calling 🐂💩 

30 sold at 30 minutes each sale = 15 hours. So if she started knocking doors at 7 am then she was still knocking at 10pm. Without a single break and no travel time at all between houses. I call total bollox

Sounds like BS ! Don't think a school leaver would cut it !

Amazing job harassing OAP.

Bullying old people - sounds like a job for ex police & traffic wardens….

Should all apply for a job, but never knock on anyone's door.

I tried door to door sales when I was about 18 and hated it because of the lies and dishonesty required to make sales. They also targeted low income families. It was home security systems and it disgusted me what they wanted us to do to get the sales.

Assuming this is not an AI generated article, then there must be some people who enjoy having doors shut in their faces!

I live in a village out in the country and I've had three visits by goons in the last three years. Fortunately I have a locked gate across my drive so I've never had any contact with them. Soon as they find they can't get access to my property they turn round and scuttle off sharpish. Good to watch.

Hello, remember if anyone knocks on your door without expecting them, they are there for their benefit not yours.

Righting the wrongs of society by getting poor, vulnerable people procecuted. I wonder what she does for a hobby collects a certain faction of war memorabilia.

20 years ago, I knew someone who was an enforcement officer, he said if it wasn't for his job, he'd never buy a licence.

I guess we are supposed to feel "sorry" for Amy ? If you harass people, what do you expect ?

Being from Wales myself I would rather trust the daily sport than Wales online

Even psychopaths need jobs.

Why do they call themselves enforcement officers when in fact they are just salespeople?

A disabled man was telling me he let in a TV LICENCE goon into his place. The guy was searching over two hours. TV guy went up into his loft space, found an old aerial lead and tried calling him out. The TV guy also went in to the daughters bedroom tried opening her tablet demanding the password. It sounded awful.

Totaly agree with you sounds total bull

I wouldn't think a young girl would want to pursue a career in chasing TV licences.

Amy's story is bulsh__ 100%

Simply DO NOT ENGAGE !!!

Sounds like a scam to me, to keep the licence in the news

I DONT buy that story, a mate of mine had a goon visit around 5 years ago and he genuinely didn't have a TV just a big stereo and boxes of records . He had no issue inviting the goon in and showed him the living room . The goon said it was fine and Alan said he could check upstairs if he wanted. The goon replied "We are NOT allowed to go upstairs " . Alan left it at that and the goon told him he would not be scheduled for another visit for 2 years but advised my friend to get a licence IF he did decide to get a tv .

They actually have a lot of retired police and dhss staff.

If nothing else, this made-up story would demonstrate a disregard for the safety of staff, sending a young girl out to try and threaten the public whilst expecting no repurcussions.

I agree with you Jon. Capita are obviously trying to make themselves look like a friendly welcoming agency. Makes you feel sick. On a brighter note, Merry Christmas to you all 🎄🎄🎄

Agreed. 'Amy' is telling fibs Haha

This sounds like a story pulled off social media, this person could be anyone making it all up. In the early 70's i was a young TV repair tech doing repairs in peoples homes. Most we very pleaseant, but you did get a few that were not happy that their TV had stopped working in the middle of a football match and could be very aggresive, dealing with them was an art the took time to perfect. So i agree that allowing a young girl to enter homes on her own seems far fetched.

Happy Christmas everyone!

I hope the TV licence enforcement officers are declaring to their motor insurance supplier that they are using the vehicle for business purposes.

I had a female 'officer' call on me a few years ago! She was probably about 40-45 years old. She was very polite and even tried to turn on the 'charm' in order to get into my house to do her 'inspection' All smiles and charm, but sadly for her she still got chased away with ZERO CHANCE of getting paid!!

Isn't this the girl that got done for drug offences? Or another one?

Never open your front door to strangers. I repeat. Never open your front door to strangers.

I would go so far; as to never open the door for someone you don't know. This was burned into my brain as a teenager. Simply yell through the door, or look through the peep hole. If you don't know tehm (yes, even the police), refuse to open the door, and ensure the door is locked and deadbolted. We even had, and still do, have a security bar, to prevent entry. There's nothing stopping them from wedging their foot in the door to prevent you from closing it,

Google her. She loves a good story 😂 and she also drug drives 😮

I can believe Amy's story. I worked in retail as a multi drop delivery driver and heard similar stories from other girl drivers (and one who was actually sexually assaulted).

Profiting on people's misery,seems about right.

"Yes darlin' I keep my TV in the basement behind the large metal shutter. Ignore the chainsaws and masks made from human skin. It's the Sony on the left, just behind all the blood stained door to door salesman badges!"

Yes a lady from Crapita did knocked my door its funny how the door shut the same as when a male goon knocked my door.. Cheers from South Wales.. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I had 2 blokes and 2 plod and they walked away (goons) when i said "I do not want to buy your product" and they claimed they had a warrant...I never saw it. I also told my story of shagging a TV Licence woman (before Capita)......and anyone can call bullshit on that one. But e en more important than this bullshit woman is the fact that (like you said) They do not visit 'out of town locations' They do not visit 'citadels'. guarded apartments whatever you want to call them Posh places....they don't even go onto Posh estates.....because as you are smart enough to know.....a posh estate is poor pickings because most people are smart enough to tell them to feck off. I know people who live down lanes, on farms etc, they have no licences and have never been visited??? Again as you say, too much money to drive out there to be told 'feck off or I'll set the dogs on yer". As a blokey who grew up poor and from a poor family, I remember being told to hide behind the sofa because the TV licence people were about.....I now know that it is all based on education...my parents just did not know the rules..or they could have told them to feck off.

Think about it this way. If they call them "enforcement officers" should they not have a SIA Licence? We all know they are just salesmen but they call them that.

Not sure ex cop's would lower themselves to do TV licences, what with the massive pension they get. Possibly poor old ex squaddies may be forced to stoop to this level as they're treated like shit in comparison. Also I think the story has a bit of the old Hans Christian Anderson about it....

The is 100% a PR puff piece. How do you know? The personality always sound exactly the same.

They will take kids on they like young people don't they if you no what I am saying 😊

I left UK 44 years ago, I cannot remember when it happened but there was a time when you needed a licence to listen to radio broadcasts! It became the standard that if you had a TV licence, it also covered radio! I suspect that radio licences were scrapped when tranistor radios became the norm in the 1960s? Imagine the goons having to stop everyone in the street with an earpiece and a lead going inside their coat?

It looks as if it's originally from LancsLive and is old. I seem to remember this from a year or so ago. NO, they should not be placed in a dangerous position, but there are some that are aggressive and intimidating and should be treated in the same way as they treat others.

I'm 75 in two months and on pension credit so no more TV licence. Ironick because I haven watched TV for over 10 years but other people watch it.

Professional Stalkers!

The psychological indoctrination message is TV Licence enforcement officers are just ordinary people who love meeting people, often vulnerable themselves with a difficult job, you should feel sorry for them and treat them pleasantly with respect (so they can stab you in your back). This is the kind of crap you could get from the Behaviour Insights Team whose job it is to covertly change people's behaviour on behalf of the government.

I call bull 💩 too those stories are too extreme to be true

She is Chief Reporter at the North West Evening Mail. She worked for Capita TVL from 2003 to 2006. It's in her LinkedIn profile.

BS I am sure Jon thanks for your insight.

I had a lovely young tv licence sales rep and I had a bottle of chianti spare and felt like a snack. Many thanks Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Thats well dodgy. With a company's " duty of care" this is bollox.

A whole raft of stories coming out one after the other. Each of them being well presented and well spoken. As if they have all rehearsed, as if they are all trying to get lots of positive PR. Spin Spin Spin

I had a lady come knocking on the door, I took your advice and just said not today thank you

Loving your job is something that I can very much empathise with, ‎However, ‎The sort of person who might be attracted to the job of TV licence enforcer ‎Is perhaps not the sort of person I would wish to associate with.

I've heard this story before, about a female licence inspector being trapped upstairs by a man (a 'potential customer' LOL). Wherever these personal accounts come from, they must be few and far between.

Recruitment drive by one of the PR companies....... your right this is bs story.

The licence, originally a radio licence, was introduced in November 1923 using powers under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904, and cost 10 shillings per annum. The licence was extended to televisions at a cost of £2 in June 1946. The radio part was abolished in February 1971.

I have had a female one at my door but she was in her 40s but ye am definitely calling 🐂💩 too 😆👍

I was a beer enforcement officer once, it was a fuck load more fun than most other jobs I’ve had, can imagine tv licence enforcement officer is way down the list of enjoyable jobs

Compare this woman's story to the kind of traumas that teachers go through for instance, the lack of respect the lack of senior management assistance, and the physical violence they have to deal with, as well as the possibility they could be murdered, or take their own life thanks to despicable OFSTED.. Many teachers have quit in the face of such treatment, maybe that is why there is an acute shortage right now, so the question is, if this woman and others in the enforcement service are all open to the kind of danger she talks about, why is there not a shortage of such people, dicing with death daily, or even driven to suicide, just to 'enforce' people to pay for a licence, whether it is needed or not. The whole story stinks of BS and propaganda.

All sorts of people visit people's homes on their own for work. Why would Capita be any different?

Your right so many red flags on sending a lone worker. Any way I wonder how many people have seen one of the TVL sales people.

Your straight out of school photo " what a sweet little thing you were" meant as a compliment made me smile😀

What a load of Bull Shit mate... i found her on Facebook with a different profile . Have laptop Will Travel .Merry Christmas mate.

I imagine Capita would love to shut down Chilli JonCarne

As soon as I saw the word commission that implies door to door sales

Hilarious!!!!! I won't be applying.

That's the arena she got in so be it , like joining the army yet moaning about the discipline, when you try to extract ££ out of people toughen up

The radio licence was abolished in 1 February 1971.

Amy Fenton Lancashire Live - I remember searching her name previously. I can't put my finger on it but I'm swaying towards an article covered by Chilli a few months ago that her name was mentioned.

Hi Jon. While living in Southampton I got a knock from a licence agent who was a woman. A fairly small one at that. I remained friendly and polite throughout the encounter. She asked if I had a license. I explained that I do not anwer questions from strangers. She asked if I have a TV. I explained how that sort of question sounds like she is casing my place for a robbery and would absolutly not be answering such questions. She then demnded my name. I explained that i was not required to give my name to her. She demanded it again, I explained again and said I wanted the converstation to end. She said fine and added spitefully that she could look it up on the electoral register, I grinned ear to ear at her at her and said "OK you do that" knowing I was not on it. My point is that they do employ women, some small ones however they do still try to intimidate.

Around 1989 a young, very pretty 'enforcement officer' visited my home, and asked to look around, so I can believe it. She was very dateable.

Are Capita that evil the answer is yes Capita manage the Teachers Pension Scheme and when I retired they tried to fleece me out of entitlement fortunately I had kept paperwork to prove my entitlement but it still took time to sort out the mess which of course is only ever on their side!

TOUGH! when they are too terrified to knock on doors WE HAVE WON! +.

First time I’ve listened to your video with headphones on and didn’t realise your microphone is stereo coz you kept going quieter and louder, left and right when you moved your head, I thought my headphones were playing up 😂

TV licence enforcement officer sounds more frightening to vulnerable ppl than what their real title is which is door to door salesman looking for £20 weekend beer money.

Well all know that Fascist Bully Boys like meeting People.

Anyone facing this much hostility in a job is never gonna want to stay in that job. This is utter 💩. I don’t believe a word of it. The sooner the TV licence is finished the better.

Jon, I know a lot of police and there is absolutely no way they would be working for tv licensing after retirement. They hate the public and great unwashed. They are all down the golf course or always on holiday. Those that do work have nice easy jobs, delivering cars or private driving. I smell a bull shite puff piece.

30 sales a day???? how many hours a day was she "working", it's a load of rubbish chilli LOL!!!

I read the same story verbatim a few years ago

I hereby withdraw the implied right of access. Good bye. Close the door. End of👌👍

I used to have an anti tv licence Twitter account a few years back and a disgruntled tvl goon contacted me. Provided his ID and sent me photos of the tvl guidelines for enforcement officers. Said he never seen any detection equipment in his time there. 'Detector Vans' drive around empty in high evasion rate areas hoping to frighten people into getting a licence. IF they get a rare warrant their policy is not to force entry and always check to see if you're in first. He said any threats of violence at an address and they marked the address for no more visits for safety reasons

Wales Online - Due Diligence You are are card! LOL

Amy left Uni in 2003 TWENTY YEARS AGO…. This story is completely irrelevant today… it’s also fictitious as the geography was changed….

Many Local Newspapers now receive payments from businesses and other organisations for a 'Plug Story!'

I smell Bull S-it and lies from that woman Amy. Selling 30 licences a day is just a sales job, and probably intimidating on the doorstep to make people pay up for something they don't need. I have had Atas and Capita reps for my disability many times, and boy do they bend the truth & makeup stuff in their favour.

What a bottom of the barrel Job, I couldn't think of anything worse.

Your right this has done the rounds before.

It sounds very much like a made up puff piece. It has all the hallmarks. Toxic positivity to the max.

Would she not need an SIA badge, if she is entering people's homes or the bare minimum of an enhanced DBS check. As no one is getting into a vulnerable relative of mines address without a valid dbs check. There used to be an age restriction on this job role for obvious reasons. I wouldn't let any teenager of mine do this job at all.

Is it true what the bbc Saying The license has got to go up for the nonpaying Licence viewers

what a crock of lies

Wales online, doing checks and due diligence, you must be joking !

Who'd chose to work for CRAPITA?

I go to prison before these robbers get a penny out of me

The thing to remember is anyone knocking at your door and is usually after something, with the financial crisis and the like there’s more of them than a while ago. Remember to keep the chain on the door, it’s not hard to fit one and they are useful to have. Always ask the person who they are, they might try to ask your name or try to get information from you. If they won’t identify themselves then be careful as there’s something they are hiding . A genuine caller will have a valid ID card be happy to say what company or organisation they are from, charity knockers are very good at what they do and rarely stay if you say “no thankyou”. The way a person presents themself is a give away, so if a person with a clipboard asks you 20 questions you can be fairly sure they are not from a charity to help the needy. Tv licence folk like to pretend they are important, they have to sell licenses and their intimidation or entrapment is what becomes a tool of the trade. Let them do the talking, it might appear to be rude to interrupt them. You can wait for them to finish, when they ask who you are you can say “ no thankyou”. They will have wasted their time for nothing. It’s their choice to do the job so leave them outside to enjoy whatever the weather offers. They need you more than you need them,let them walk away. Close the door and make a drink, there’s nothing to worry about.

It’s insane UK citizens allow the government to charge them for tv 😂