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Ruby the Liberal

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12. I like her analogy to waiting tables
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 06:43 PM
Mar 2012

That is oh, so true, and easy enough for anyone to understand.

I have never had this problem, but then again, I don't tolerate fools easily and at the mere suggestion I would have shot a look that would have caught attention in the next county. I am surprised that the Xerox Chair let the sales person treat her that way for as long as she did. I'd like to think they get one shot and on the second attempt, I'm walking out the door without explanation.

Curious if this has anything to do with wedding rings - as in the sales person assuming if someone is wearing them, they aren't prepared (or "permissioned" ) to make the decision on their own. I have had sales training in my career that insisted it was critical to talk with both parties in order to make the sale. Drawing on old history here, but IIRC, the logic was that no married couple will make independent decisions and if they won't meet with you together, it is a ploy to not have to make a decision. *sigh*

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