Stupid Sales Techniques
Worked for Radioshack and always butted heads with the District Manager. He wanted me to use these ridiculous sales techniques that might work in a big city but were really pushy for a small town.
The year he became our DM I won a contest for best salesman in the whole company, out of about 14,000 employees, and I did it without being pushy and forcing stuff on people.
He still tried to get me to use these ridiculous techniques each month when he would visit, but after I won the contest I stopped sugar-coating it and would flat out tell him, “That’s stupid, I’m not going to do it that way.” He threatened to get me fired every time, but nothing ever came of it, wonder why.
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