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I've got an interview tomorrow for this job at a place that does marketing for sporting goods and housewares. sounds dull i know, but the flat rate starting pay is about $12 an hr. and i also make pay on commission. there's no door-to-door crap involved, so i'm betting its telemarketing. i'd really like to get this job so i can finally have some financial independence as well as support my wonderful girlfriend. any advice? |
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try something else, telemarketing is sooo depressing... my friend did it for a bit but it's soul destroying. |
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good luck man! |
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a shiver went down my spine as soon as I read the word "commission" - not a lot of good comes out of it. |
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thanks funkmaster! jivver: i've tried a lot, and this is the first interview i've obtained. as for the soul destroying, i think i've got protection. love shall conquer that folly. but thank your concern. |
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*thank you for your concern. ick@ my typing well i get a base salary too. not ALL of my pay will come from commission. the person who called me said the flat rate starting pay would be 12$ hr, not including commission. and that would definitely be more than i'm making now. |
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marketing is fucking evil. Telesales people should be shot. Media people in general deserve to die for one reason or another. That may seem controversial, but fuck you, youre wrong. Hahahahaha, who am i talking to again? |
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well, in my experience, the job can be okay when concerning commissions - the real thing you should be afraid for are your colleagues. most of them will seem to be LIVING for the commission, in other words, are back-stabbing rats. BUT! it does not have to be this way. good luck, mr. blender. :) |
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YEH AND TEH AMEERIKA IS G4Y |
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thanks for the heads-up qrter. i keep my eye out. as for you mr. aphextriplet, i'm guessing you should put out a sign saying "wet floor" because .....i feel .....someone..... would get hurt ......by slipping ......in the puddle...... formed by the sarcasm dripping off .......your lips..... boo-yah! I now hold the record for most unintelligible comeback EVER. |
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yeah that was pretty weak. Thanks for trying though mate. I have nothing against people who work in the media. Its people who work in the media and LIKE it and WANT to who deserve to have acid thrown in their childrens faces. |
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perhaps that was a little harsh.... nah. |
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indeed. cheers. |
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I quite liked the comeback. it had a suprising slow pace, which made it more tense. yeh yeh yeh. |
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qrter, youre making me laugh today. Unfortunately my gary oldman/dracula avatar has long since disappeared. We couldve bonded... we couldve ... |
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If this is true, then it means they sell things for $$$; meaning if the customers ask about something they will be adviced to buy whatever pays the seller the most comission. This is not a good thing - but the way it works. I had a friend who worked at this electronics store, and he said it was the most "untrue/false" period of his life... |
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ah.. this is the stuff dreams are made of.. |
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that's what working for commission more or less comes down to, yes. it makes people behave quite nasty. HA! I have a friend who worked at an electronics store too! his brother also worked there and his brother used to call his co-workers "rats". |
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i have to work with rats? *gets his gigantic mousetrap and a copy of hustler as bait* |
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I advise you take it...customer service and communications looks REALLY GOOD on a resume. 6 months of that and your chances for landing a good job you want greatly increase... Just don't stick with it TOO long... |
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good point. |
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see yourself as one of the marines from "Aliens" - drop in and get out as soon as possible. oh wait, that went all wrong, didn't it.. um.. |
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no, i see what you mean. my g/f did some research on it -- i'll be selling cutlery. CUTLERY for fuck's sake! :-D |
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HA HA HA 't is funny, yes. 1: "so, what do you do?" 2: "I sell cwumplery.." 1: "sorry?" 2: "I sell cutlery. cutlery." 1: "oh." *uneasy silence* 1: "so what's your favourite piece of cutlery?" |
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yeah, i'm going to be a loser alright. but i write and sell music so that's respectable! |
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damn you, now i want to write a song about cutlery. i knew this guy who played the drums with knives... never heard it or saw it, but i heard of it. pretty funny. |
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Joe Gore used to play guitar with a knife while playing with PJ Harvey on her "to bring you my love"-tour. not every song, ofcourse, but still.. it's about cutlery... your line of work.. |
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anyways. need to get rest before the interview tomorrow. peace to xltronic. i shall return tomorrow with an update on this. |
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i got the job! i've learned that it's not commission based sales - you make a flat rate, but get a bonus if you make good sales. i'll be selling knives based on appointments w/ customers. it's not telemarketing, not door to door. they actually prefer the salesmen to be more laid back - that why there's a flat rate of $12 earned per appointment, and they say appointments usually last an hour. so i don't have to be pushy. finally! i have MONEY! w00t! |
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cool, good stuff :) sample the cuttlery and sample your customers talking about the finer points of your stainless steel forks, that'd be wicked |
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anyways, i get there, dressed nice, with my belt, slacks, button-up-shirt and tie, and everyone else there is dressed casually. I was sort of comforted to see that everyone working there was younger than i was. i get the easiest job app to fill out, and then they ask me a few questions like, "when can you start?" and "why did you apply?" my boss, Mr. Applebury, was barely older than I was. Very laid back, didn't seem too uptight. Anyways, we sit through a one-hour session where he tells all the apllicants about the company and what they sell, and then gives us the easiest questionaire on earth. and then a short interview of each applicant. and i got the job! i'm officially a knife salesman. i start training tomorrow. i'll won't be able to see my girlfriend as much, which will suck, but i'll be able to spoil her, which is good. |
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yeah, the knives I'll be selling... some of them can cut pennies effortlessly. and some cut rope and leather like it's nothing. powerful stuff. |
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what was great about it was they had an alternative rock station playing, and i was a bit nervous, but then a Cranberries song started playing, and it was very relaxing. |
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is it like those sets of knifes off the ads on the perfomance channel? |
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"watch how effortlessly this steak knife cuts thru this old leather boot" |
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actually, i don't know if they do much tv advertisement. they have several lines of different kinds of knives. they said they do most of their sales through word-of-mouth. |
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