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Originally Posted by dubc80
I kind of wonder who takes these crappy door-to-door jobs. You must be really hurtin' for $$$ and must have no other options to take this on.
I can't imagine how crappy it must be to get up in the morning and all you have to look forward to is getting denied, have doors closed in your face, and getting told to SCRAM!
You'd think students would be able to find something better. New immigrants perhaps? But then again, they might be ESL and trying to sell something while ESL is a recipe for disaster.
Door-to-door is a tough job and in this day and age, probably shouldn't be a sales strategy anymore. Bottle drives for Scouts is maybe the only acceptable door-to-door approach.
I've known people who have volunteered and gone door-to-door for charity things like Easter Seals, STARS calendar, etc and even they get treated like crap sometimes.
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this is a little dramatic. It's just a guy at your door. You don't have to answer it. It's like when telephone marketer dudes call you, just don't answer or if you do hang up, who cares? If this is your big problem in life, I think you're doing alright.
When I cruised into this job I was pretty useless, didn't really care what I did at the time and was in university in full party mode, it paid decent, I didn't really care if doors got slammed in my face, and it wasn't near the apparent scammyness that seems to be prevalent as what's being reported here. Got to walk around outside all day, meet people. Not all people were stuck up jerks like you... it was actually a really fun job to be honest.
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Originally Posted by V
I must have had a bad DE sales guy today. I was grabbing something from the truck in my driveway when he showed up, he said "Hey" and I said "Not interested", then he says "I'm with Direct Energy", so I said, "Yeah, I gathered that from your Direct Energy shirt. Still not interested." So he just says "Okay" and walks away. That was disappointing. I wanted to use my "I work for EPCOR and know more about my energy bill than you ever will" line, but the conversation didn't get that far.
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One of the more hilarious times I remember walking along a route and seeing down the road some door-to-door Mormon dudes. Our paths were certain to cross. I wasn't particularly interested in their crap, and they weren't in mine, but we both heard the others' pitch on the sidewalk. Pretty hilarious having rival door-to-door sales people sell each other !@#$ neither wants.
Realistically though, if I ever heard a person say not interested, I'd move along, I wasn't really interested in pushing people, and funny enough it was usually when I just walked away the people came after me asking me what it was all about.