Sales is the reason all you lot of have jobs
No company survives without good salespeople. Like me.

Sales is very hard, takes very long hours and hard graft. We bring in all the dough though, so we're well paid (if we're good). Sales guys are also outgoing, confident and bouncy so we tend to celebrate a lot on Fridays. We play football then go on the lash. Fuck pizza, we like drink!
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 27 May 2010, 14:14, 1 reply)

Can't disagree
Sales is absolutely necessary, and hard work, and to be really truly good at it you need to have a soul bypass.

The real twats are the directors who sack all the good sales people and farm everything out to a hive of minimum-wage call-centre drones who get told they work in sales when all they do is read aloud from a script that appears on a computer screen in front of them, and dare not deviate from it lest their supervisor listen in. "Recorded for training purposes" is code for "recorded as evidence for the disciplinary hearing every time anyone ever deviates from the script".

Scripts are for actors. Real selling is a performance art, for sure, but it's not simply reading from a script.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 28 May 2010, 13:46, closed)