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conviper30 t1_ivj7dbi wrote

Reply to comment by 62SlabSide in Anyone else get political spam messages like this by Zerox19a

I'm not saying I support it at all, I can only understand in the context of trying to reach a audience. I'm in sales and no matter what way I've conducted myself it's always as invasive. Send an email? How dare they! Call them? How dare they! Leave a voicemail? How dare they! Network through one of their friends or vendors? How dare they! Cold call them at their work? How dare they! (I did office supply sales/restaurant sales this was the only way.) All I'm getting at is; people don't want to listen regardless if it's good or bad for them. Everyone hates everyone and nobody cares.

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fprintf t1_ivmyu19 wrote

And this is why I sucked at sales and only lasted a year (this was over 30 years ago). I had empathy for the people not wanting to be called upon and bothered. So I didn't bother them and didn't make any sales...

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conviper30 t1_ivn1t8n wrote

It's a hard line to balance on...depends on what industry it is for me. I can't do residential fuck that no way I'm bothering people at their homes. The only time when I pressed people is when I had a solution to a problem they had and wouldnt respond at all (had a case of this happen to a BIG company in CT and since they never took my call it fucked the company up and got the CEO fired) so there is some validity to needing to pick up those calls at some point). Sort of like that comic where they are pushing a square wheel saying "IM TOO BUSY" while the guy is offering them a circle wheel. It's a battle of ignorance I deal with on a daily basis. But with that being said, alot of sales people can be ignorant too.

Also too I like to use as a reference is "why did we go through the industrial revolution? Because someone eventually said there is a better way to do things and people listened."

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