The DA Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 8 hours ago, The Moonster said: Salesmen get up in the morning... If circumstances deem that there are no opportunities, they go back to bed and have a w**k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 My dog has a better grasp of sentence structure that whatever tit wrote that. Is your dog better at typing than you? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 22 hours ago, TheScarf said: Absolutely f**k being a salesman. Knowing you spend every working day shafting people. Usually elderly people. They are usually also being shafted. My first graduate job was in sales after I answered an advert for a marketing management training program. You were told you were self employed (no sick pay, hols etc) but actually subject to employment type control. Commission only-£10 to sign a mug up for Gas and electricity or £4 for one. We got taught how to railroad thickos into signing. There was motivational crap, standing in a circle, clapping, and getting to hi five round the circle if you hit your targets. I went back to catering for more money and more self-respect. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 6 minutes ago, coprolite said: They are usually also being shafted. My first graduate job was in sales after I answered an advert for a marketing management training program. You were told you were self employed (no sick pay, hols etc) but actually subject to employment type control. Commission only-£10 to sign a mug up for Gas and electricity or £4 for one. We got taught how to railroad thickos into signing. There was motivational crap, standing in a circle, clapping, and getting to hi five round the circle if you hit your targets. I went back to catering for more money and more self-respect. IMO 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 2 hours ago, coprolite said: They are usually also being shafted. My first graduate job was in sales after I answered an advert for a marketing management training program. You were told you were self employed (no sick pay, hols etc) but actually subject to employment type control. Commission only-£10 to sign a mug up for Gas and electricity or £4 for one. We got taught how to railroad thickos into signing. There was motivational crap, standing in a circle, clapping, and getting to hi five round the circle if you hit your targets. I went back to catering for more money and more self-respect. How is that a graduate job? It sounds more like it's for prisoners in early release. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryHill Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 4 hours ago, TheScarf said: IMO We went from hunting mammoths and dying at 40 to this. Fucking mess. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 4 hours ago, HenryHill said: We went from hunting mammoths and dying at 40 to this. Fucking mess. Move to Shettleston and you can still die at 40. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clockwork Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Just read an e-mail that I was copied into, where the recipient was asked to 'check his bandwidth' later this week (apparently meaning how busy are you on Thurs/Friday?)….....how did we get here, using this nonsense pish!? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Was in London today to find out that to enable maximum impact, I should employ a poet or a drawnalist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 25 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Was in London today to find out that to enable maximum impact, I should employ a poet or a drawnalist. Try a hammer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Oh for the good old days when English was actually used in business discussion 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Week 4 - Building Personal ResilienceIf we concentrate too much on work we wander from the Path of Transformation into the Hall of Lost Resilience. This hall contains many mirrors which ramp up our negativity.How do we combat this you ask? Well, in our Action Pack we have Energy Boosters to get us back on track. Plus we need to Reframe negativity into positivity.So "my God, we've hit an iceberg and are going to drown" changes to "well its a nice night for a swim"! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 2 hours ago, Swarley said: Week 4 - Building Personal Resilience If we concentrate too much on work we wander from the Path of Transformation into the Hall of Lost Resilience. This hall contains many mirrors which ramp up our negativity. How do we combat this you ask? Well, in our Action Pack we have Energy Boosters to get us back on track. Plus we need to Reframe negativity into positivity. So "my God, we've hit an iceberg and are going to drown" changes to "well its a nice night for a swim"! Whilst you freeze to death. Or “I was too hot anyway, it’s good to cool down a bit” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Week 4 - Building Personal Resilience If we concentrate too much on work we wander from the Path of Transformation into the Hall of Lost Resilience. This hall contains many mirrors which ramp up our negativity. How do we combat this you ask? Well, in our Action Pack we have Energy Boosters to get us back on track. Plus we need to Reframe negativity into positivity. So "my God, we've hit an iceberg and are going to drown" changes to "well its a nice night for a swim"! J. Bruce Ismay likes this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTG_03 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 On 11/07/2019 at 14:19, coprolite said: They are usually also being shafted. My first graduate job was in sales after I answered an advert for a marketing management training program. You were told you were self employed (no sick pay, hols etc) but actually subject to employment type control. Commission only-£10 to sign a mug up for Gas and electricity or £4 for one. We got taught how to railroad thickos into signing. There was motivational crap, standing in a circle, clapping, and getting to hi five round the circle if you hit your targets. I went back to catering for more money and more self-respect. I went for a training day for a job trying to get people to change electricity provider. It was door to door sales in Australia. Not a single Aussie worked there, it was all brits. They actually encouraged you to drive the car like it's stolen to reduce time between doors. Every morning they would all meet at the office and be assigned a specific area of the city with doors to knock on. First up tho everyone would get in a huddle and perform a 'raa raa'. A different person would be selected each day to scream motivational phrases while everyone else jumped around high fiving each other. I didn't go back after the first day, it was absolutely brutal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryHill Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 7 hours ago, Swarley said: Week 4 - Building Personal Resilience If we concentrate too much on work we wander from the Path of Transformation into the Hall of Lost Resilience. This hall contains many mirrors which ramp up our negativity. How do we combat this you ask? Well, in our Action Pack we have Energy Boosters to get us back on track. Plus we need to Reframe negativity into positivity. So "my God, we've hit an iceberg and are going to drown" changes to "well its a nice night for a swim"! This is why people kill. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 This is why more people should kill more often.Fixed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deej Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 5 hours ago, Swarley said: Week 4 - Building Personal Resilience If we concentrate too much on work we wander from the Path of Transformation into the Hall of Lost Resilience. This hall contains many mirrors which ramp up our negativity. How do we combat this you ask? Well, in our Action Pack we have Energy Boosters to get us back on track. Plus we need to Reframe negativity into positivity. So "my God, we've hit an iceberg and are going to drown" changes to "well its a nice night for a swim"! Love this. "That's Betty popped her clogs" = "The nursing home is less crowded" "I'm afraid you've got leukemia" = "At least you'll finally shed those last few pounds" 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 1 hour ago, GTG_03 said: I went for a training day for a job trying to get people to change electricity provider. It was door to door sales in Australia. Not a single Aussie worked there, it was all brits. They actually encouraged you to drive the car like it's stolen to reduce time between doors. Every morning they would all meet at the office and be assigned a specific area of the city with doors to knock on. First up tho everyone would get in a huddle and perform a 'raa raa'. A different person would be selected each day to scream motivational phrases while everyone else jumped around high fiving each other. I didn't go back after the first day, it was absolutely brutal. I experienced similar with a door to door student job over in the States. The company would encourage us to stay together so that we could do things like leave $5 bills in the shower (so that the first to jump out of bed when the alarm went could scoop it) and do the additional morning motivational bullshit that you've described. Like the naive fresher I was, I obviously flew myself across there for the training out of my own pocket so I was pretty much committed to the whole thing. I was a resounding failure and came home having lost money. Those were the days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 1 hour ago, GTG_03 said: I went for a training day for a job trying to get people to change electricity provider. It was door to door sales in Australia. Not a single Aussie worked there, it was all brits. They actually encouraged you to drive the car like it's stolen to reduce time between doors. Every morning they would all meet at the office and be assigned a specific area of the city with doors to knock on. First up tho everyone would get in a huddle and perform a 'raa raa'. A different person would be selected each day to scream motivational phrases while everyone else jumped around high fiving each other. I didn't go back after the first day, it was absolutely brutal. Getting door to door sales folk hyped up can lead to this sort of trouble: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bizarre-window-firm-feud-sees-13716046 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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