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The pictures of these cars don't do justice to how crappy Melanie's car was. She said she doesn't usually drive to work, but that day she happened to
have the car (she shared it with one other person). She also drove another
sales person, Fray, since he was also heading to the same area we were going
to. It was a pretty long car ride to the part of town we were going to, I think
it was Carnegie.
We dropped off Fray near the stores he stopped at from the previous day. We drove another 5 minutes and parked the car. She said to watch what she does. We went in the store and pretty much she introduced herself, then told them they offered better rates for electricity, then waited to see if they were interested. The first couple of stores didn't work out in her favour. They were already satisfied with what they had. After a couple of stores later, it was my turn. I was pretty much thrown in with the wolves. She said it was her teaching tactic. I was so nervous that I started stuttering. This usually wasn't like me, but since I'm halfway around the world and didn't really know the product I was selling, it was difficult to handle the situation. Mel would jump in to help me though. Sometimes I would forget the next line to say and just turn to Mel for her to finish off what I was saying. I've never felt so uncomfortable like that in a long time.
We only did this for a couple of hours and finished at 12:00pm. She called Gwyn to tell him what she thought of me. I didn't hear the conversation, but when she was done talking, she told me that he was waiting to hear about another girl that was also on an observation day like me. There was only 1 position available, but Mel told me that she liked me and would rather me be on her team. She said that Gwyn would call me and ask me a couple of questions. She wrote down some answers to questions that he may ask: what a Jones Theory was (related to how sheep follow other sheep and that if you tell them the business next door is doing it, then they are more inclined to follow the same decision), how much our discounts were, and how much our rates were. I said thanks for the help and then I walked toward the train station and decided I wanted to head home.
On the way home I got a call from Gwyn. Sure enough, he asked the questions that Mel had prepared me for. I answered them all and told him I was still interested in the job. He told me to come in for a training session the next day at 12:00pm.
I pretty much lazed around the house until dinner. Zeena and Nicholas were going to return some movies they rented. They asked if I wanted to go and I agreed. We walked for about 30 mins to a street full of shops. It was pretty much like a downtown of a small town. Every suburb/town had a strip of shops. They returned their movie at the store and picked up another one, a movie I've never heard of. Zeena likes to watch Indie type of movies. She was more like a tree hugger type of person, only she doesn't smoke up, at least not that I know of. She was very nice, but she seemed very shy of things/apprehensive. We also passed by a movie theatre, tickets for a normal show were $15 per person, and cheap night was $12.50. I said their cheap night was the cost of our normal night.
We dropped off Fray near the stores he stopped at from the previous day. We drove another 5 minutes and parked the car. She said to watch what she does. We went in the store and pretty much she introduced herself, then told them they offered better rates for electricity, then waited to see if they were interested. The first couple of stores didn't work out in her favour. They were already satisfied with what they had. After a couple of stores later, it was my turn. I was pretty much thrown in with the wolves. She said it was her teaching tactic. I was so nervous that I started stuttering. This usually wasn't like me, but since I'm halfway around the world and didn't really know the product I was selling, it was difficult to handle the situation. Mel would jump in to help me though. Sometimes I would forget the next line to say and just turn to Mel for her to finish off what I was saying. I've never felt so uncomfortable like that in a long time.
We only did this for a couple of hours and finished at 12:00pm. She called Gwyn to tell him what she thought of me. I didn't hear the conversation, but when she was done talking, she told me that he was waiting to hear about another girl that was also on an observation day like me. There was only 1 position available, but Mel told me that she liked me and would rather me be on her team. She said that Gwyn would call me and ask me a couple of questions. She wrote down some answers to questions that he may ask: what a Jones Theory was (related to how sheep follow other sheep and that if you tell them the business next door is doing it, then they are more inclined to follow the same decision), how much our discounts were, and how much our rates were. I said thanks for the help and then I walked toward the train station and decided I wanted to head home.
On the way home I got a call from Gwyn. Sure enough, he asked the questions that Mel had prepared me for. I answered them all and told him I was still interested in the job. He told me to come in for a training session the next day at 12:00pm.
I pretty much lazed around the house until dinner. Zeena and Nicholas were going to return some movies they rented. They asked if I wanted to go and I agreed. We walked for about 30 mins to a street full of shops. It was pretty much like a downtown of a small town. Every suburb/town had a strip of shops. They returned their movie at the store and picked up another one, a movie I've never heard of. Zeena likes to watch Indie type of movies. She was more like a tree hugger type of person, only she doesn't smoke up, at least not that I know of. She was very nice, but she seemed very shy of things/apprehensive. We also passed by a movie theatre, tickets for a normal show were $15 per person, and cheap night was $12.50. I said their cheap night was the cost of our normal night.
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