So I got terminated...

Seems like an actual Fatty conversation. I'd buy it .

 

Never fails to make me smile, he is one of the all time funniest minor characters.

 

I have no idea why this made me laugh so much.

it just hit hard.

 

Fatty needs to catch up with the times. Here's a blog post about selling (cars) to Millennials.

 

Can't tell you how many times I've greeted people in the morning with this line:



Usually while camping and outdoorsy stuff, but not always (i.e. guy passed out on my couch)

 

Classic. I sing it to myself all the time.

 

I never thought that a movie scene from 30 years ago would be an argument one would make to say clearly misogynistic things in a business setting.

Learn something new every day.

 

I'm sorry, but you are totally wrong about this. Highly successful financiers who totally don't make a living off of cold calling daytime tv watchers and MyPillow enthusiasts...these people would never be caught dead at a Cracker Barrel.

They're fancy like Applebees.

 

There’s 0 chance @Roscoe Arbuckle has ever had to make a cold call if he gets red faced and calls someone a ****ing ****ot over a payment dispute.

 

Of course not, he tells his ****ing *****ts to do it for him.

 

And this is why I almost never answer my phone these days.

 

Calling inbounds isn’t cold calling.

 

I'm not in the business, but it seems like the less cold calls per day, the better. Logically that means one is spending a lot of time on each call and getting pertinent information rather than being called a ****ing f***** for ruining dinner or interrupting Judge Judy and getting hung up on after 30 seconds.

 

Depends on the business.

 

I was in sales in my early adulthood, and was very good at it. I miss it to a degree, because it was a win every time I closed a sale. I drank a ****-ton of coffee, paraphrasing Fatty's favorite movie clip. So I'm fairly sympathetic towards salespeople. There can be actual good information there if you listen.

If someone is cold-calling me and not calling from a foreign call center and just reading a script, I will generally listen to their initial 30-60 second spiel. Unfortunately for them, they are usually calling me with the wrong information gleaned from LinkedIn 10 years ago, so I have to cut them off, thank them for their time, and get off the phone. I will say that polite but engaging conversationalists will keep my ear longer than hard sale or script types.

I'll lump in door-to-door sales: What I don't need: To sell my house, solar, electricity plans, political views, windows, roofs, internet, TV, security systems, print publications, extended car warranties, yardwork, tree work, gutters cleaned, to sell my car(s), new cars, used cars, retirement plans, water treatment systems or memberships in cults (I will consider leading them). I do give the time of day to kids fundraising or selling anything (I bought a cookie once from a kid for $2) because I like to support and encourage hustle.

 

Coincidentally, I just got a cold call (one of those companies wanting to buy your house). The caller's name - Chad. I resisted the urge to ask if he's ever been called a ****ing f*****.

 

Necessary evil. The calls I make today will turn into new clients in a few months.