I Make Music, You Make Me Sick
Mar. 13th, 2010 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanWell... I still know which end of a guitar to hold & have vague recollections of scales. This despite not having picked one up for at least a month, mostly through lack of inspiration... or possibly interest, but tonight's unplugged session with my last remaining project was kind of fun... with the odd ~ & occasionally very odd (& LOUD) noise blurting forth accidentally, inevitably during a quiet section. No wonder I mainly prefer acoustic guitars these days ~ they're less embarrassing when you get it wrong.
Meanwhile, the last days of my sentence in Debtors Prison #2 continue to wind down, not without incidents that remind me why I never want to work in sales ever again, in any form... Example 1. was the guy who walked in yesterday, digital camera aloft, announcing that he was filming us & our response to his complaint about waiting a fortnight for his iPod to be repaired when he's been 'promised' it would only take a week. Okay nutjob... firstly, it's not our fault if your deafening device isn't back yet... we can only make calls to try accelerating its return. If you wanted the repairs done on site, well... I'm not an electrician but hand me that hammer & I'll have a shot at it... Example 2. the 60something senior citizen I sold a TV to earlier in the year who came in today insisting & accusing me of not providing him with a receipt for the sale, demanding I provide him with one & telling me he found the TV $300 cheaper "down the road". Okay, you lying old b@$t@rd... Firstly, nothing leaves the place without a receipt... it can't. Secondly, there's a Latin phrase almost as old as you are 'Caveat Emptor' It's not my fault you found the (allegedly) same TV cheaper "down the road" recently for less money. It's been 7 weeks since you bought it from me. Count yourself lucky you didn't buy a computer or a car ~ see how fast those things depreciate on a weekly, almost daily, basis, then go away, go home, turn on the ABC & then, as the saying goes, 'Consume Excrement & Expire'
25 years of sales career... Enough!!! I say...
Meanwhile, the last days of my sentence in Debtors Prison #2 continue to wind down, not without incidents that remind me why I never want to work in sales ever again, in any form... Example 1. was the guy who walked in yesterday, digital camera aloft, announcing that he was filming us & our response to his complaint about waiting a fortnight for his iPod to be repaired when he's been 'promised' it would only take a week. Okay nutjob... firstly, it's not our fault if your deafening device isn't back yet... we can only make calls to try accelerating its return. If you wanted the repairs done on site, well... I'm not an electrician but hand me that hammer & I'll have a shot at it... Example 2. the 60something senior citizen I sold a TV to earlier in the year who came in today insisting & accusing me of not providing him with a receipt for the sale, demanding I provide him with one & telling me he found the TV $300 cheaper "down the road". Okay, you lying old b@$t@rd... Firstly, nothing leaves the place without a receipt... it can't. Secondly, there's a Latin phrase almost as old as you are 'Caveat Emptor' It's not my fault you found the (allegedly) same TV cheaper "down the road" recently for less money. It's been 7 weeks since you bought it from me. Count yourself lucky you didn't buy a computer or a car ~ see how fast those things depreciate on a weekly, almost daily, basis, then go away, go home, turn on the ABC & then, as the saying goes, 'Consume Excrement & Expire'
25 years of sales career... Enough!!! I say...
