Nakers is in advertising
which is, if possible, worse.

but yes, salesmen are scum.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:16, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

I don't have a problem with advertisers
they put pretty pictures on billboards that I don't have to read, or on the telly that I don't watch, or the internet that I can block about stuff that I don't have to buy.

They don't call me up and get shitty with me because my response of "my boss isn't in, you say you've got his email address well use it" wasn't good enough for him.
( Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:19, Reply)

Was this a cold caller?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:20, Reply)

True.
out main sales guy nearly sunk the company. he sold stuff we didn't have yet for prices that we couldn't make it for on deadlines we couldn't hope to meet. He 'left to pursue other interests' or some other euphemistic shit. because directors don't get shit-canned apparently.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:21, Reply)

Most of them will promise the Earth in order to get their commission
and then leave the tech guys frantically trying to make the kit do what they've promised. Which they frequently can't because sales guy doesn't give the first, tiniest fuck what the kit actually does do.
( Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:27, Reply)

I spent a number of years in sales and was very good at it before...
I moved into buying, I always sold service and not product that's probably why I have been head hunted so many times
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:29, Reply)

I'm just pissed off by the obviously lying guy who was blatantly just nosing for an introduction.

( Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:33, Reply)

If it's a call center wanker just tell them to fuck off

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:34, Reply)

One of them pissed me off so fucking much
by getting actually full-on aggressive with me that I told him that it wasn't my job to provide him with his livelihood and then hung up on the prick.
( Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)

Our finance director gets about 30 cold calls a day
he never has the bottle to talk to them so they just keep ringing back, what a pussy.
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:37, Reply)

My brother's job
appears to consist mainly of placating people who've spent upwards of 100k on kitchens which are months later than expected, with unworkable designs etc all of which bullshit information has come from salescunts and designers who never have to deal with the fallout from their own cuntery.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:30, Reply)

Absolute fucking shits.
They should only get their fucking precious commission once the job's been properly completed. That way they might not just say any old shit in order to secure their 5% or whatever.
( Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)

My first consulting gig
was rescuing a little 10 man Visual Basic software house whose salesman sold their client an Oracle system. For the money they'd have charged for a VB/Access system.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:37, Reply)

Did you consult them to "fire that useless cunt"?

( Kroney, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 12:39, Reply)

Already done by the time I got there
They did fire the 3 indian contractors they had making a pigs ear of it after I got there.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Jul 2013, 13:17, Reply)