On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Paul Sharpe wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Robin Szemeti wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > > Do any of you have any better ideas?
> >
> > when I'm not writing very bad perl I run a small business making carved
> > wooden signs .. i get several calls a day asking if i want a debt
> > collection service/accountant/save money on gas bills/website/you name it
> > ..
> >
> > since they are paying for the call I try my best to flog them a sign ...
> > not worked yet .. but every call is a sales opportunity ;-)
>
> I like this approach. I thought I might string them along and as they
> close tell them that I just had to ask the permission of the person
> who looks after me as I wasn't allowed to use sharp objects or money.
> I think I got this from Jack Lemon in Glengarry Glen Ross.
That has inspired me - next time I have a recruiter call, I can do to them
what I do to door to door religion salesmen - persuade them that Lord Sri
Krishna is the supreme personality of godhead and they would benefit from
saying "hare krishna hare krishna, krishna krishna, Hare Hare ".. etc
regularly, in fact sing along with me. yeay.
I once swapped a Bhagavad gita for a book of mormon you know.
well nearly, anyway they said they had to go and seemed really
uncomfortable.
A.
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