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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mary Ann on May 12, 2013, 06:59:17 AM
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blur256 (170 posts)
I changed someone's mind today...
So I have worked for a cable company for the last 3 weeks as sort of an in between to figuring out what I really want to do with my life. I got "let go" today, but I'm cool with it (I'm not good at high pressure sales). I should probably be upset, but I have a Master's degree and I was selling things for $10 and hour. But I digress... So I had a customer come up to me today and tell me that they had to have Fox News as a channel on their cable. I asked him why, and he says it is the only news source he watches. I was about to send him away when I just decided to ask him why. He tells me that it is what his family watched, so therefore that is what he grew up on. I then asked him who he voted for when it was the presidential election (he just turned 19 and was on his own). He actually told me he voted for Obama. When I asked him why, he said, to be honest, I have been on my own for a year now, and I can still get health insurance through my parents which would cost me way more on my own. I said, once again, why do you watch Fox News, they tell you that this is a bad thing... And he actually said, I think I don't care about them anymore. You just made a great point. And that was my one sign up for the day.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022832100
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zero bongs.
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They aren`t even trying anymore. :yawn:
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blur256 (170 posts)
I changed someone's mind today...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022832100
He could with a masters degree in square dancing and basket weaving a job as a bar tender.
Most car wash attendants get $12.00 PH.
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This bouncy doesn't even come close to making sense..
Blurnumbers is selling cable subscriptions.
FOX News is available on every cable TV platform as one of the basic channels.
Blurnumbers talks a client out of subscribing to Fox News, which can only be done by talking a potential client out of service altogether.
Blurnumbers claims this is his only sale for the day.
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So I had a customer come up to me today and tell me that they had to have Fox News as a channel on their cable. I asked him why, and he says it is the only news source he watches. I was about to send him away when I just decided to ask him why. He tells me that it is what his family watched, so therefore that is what he grew up on.
It's a well known fact that all Fox news viewers were raised on isolated compounds in the Dakota badlands where they were forced to watch O'Reilly 8 hours a day and have Rush Limbaugh piped into their bedrooms as they slept.
And of course, these ****ing idiots lap it right up...
CaliforniaPeggy (103,809 posts)
1. You did a good thing today, my dear blur256!
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I'm sorry you got laid off, but hopefully there's something much better waiting for you.
And good for that young man. He can see the propaganda and not be affected by it.
defacto7 (3,136 posts)
3. That's all it takes...
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Just a couple of questions, a couple of leads and those who have a mind to think with will make a decision to seek the real. Keep it up! This is the time to keep an eye out for the open minded and ready to change.
freshwest (31,029 posts)
8. You did him and the country a service. Glad to see this. Good luck on work, too!
Cha (124,001 posts)
7. You not only changed a mind today but imo, performed a
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freaking miracle, blur! Do you know how many people swear it is the whole truth and nothing but the truth and will not listen to anyone, even their son tell them otherwise?!
Thank you, blur!
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Open minded = DUmmie airhead
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The parents must be thrilled that the son can afford cable TV but will not pay for his own health insurance.
$10 says the son also has the following, Cell phone, X box game console with multi player subscription, Air Jordan sneakers, beer and travel money, etc.
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"Only sale of the day." Yeah, no wonder they're letting him go.
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Another educated idiot. Wonder who paid for that Masters degree.
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Another educated idiot. Wonder who paid for that Masters degree.
Yet ANOTHER DUmmie with a Masters degree. That degree must grow on trees at the island.
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Another educated idiot. Wonder who paid for that Masters degree.
Everybody but him and his kind.
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None of this happened. You got fired because you suck at life.
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One bong.
So I have worked for a cable company for the last 3 weeks as sort of an in between
Three whole weeks and gets canned. I wonder why "let go" was in quotation marks? :lmao:
Fired, would be a bit more honest.
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I don't think they offer unemployment after three weeks.
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One thing kinda bothers me.
I have a Master's degree
In what? Is it marketable?
I doubt it.
Kinda like having a PhD in something stupid like South American history.
Maybe the lad can get a job selling student loans. :rotf:
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This is a prime example of why reasonable people keep politics out of the work place. A big part of sales is figuring out what the customer wants, then subtly encouraging them to go for the highest priced option that includes what they want :whistling: The appropriate response would have been, "Here are our options that include Fox News. What other types of programs do you enjoy? I want to make sure that we find the option that you will be most satisfied with."
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"Only sale of the day." Yeah, no wonder they're letting him go.
Yes, and the only customer he had, he harangued and asked personal questions of. I'd fire him on the spot.
And he almost didn't get that customer!
...it is the only news source he watches. I was about to send him away when...
Can you imagine? Ask careful questions when interviewing job candidates, all.
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Skin's needs to hire a better story tell writer in the future. The stories have lately been pretty boring and non imaginative.
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3 WHOLE WEEKS! wow!
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3 WHOLE WEEKS! wow!
Some DUmmies last a little longer, some lose the job sooner.
You never know when that first random drug screening will come up.