6:00 p.m. Wednesday May 27, 2009
Dear Diary,
It's been a long day. Goddamn reps keep calling me about new market introductions. I tell the ladies who answer the phone, I'm at lunch between 10-3:30 and after that I've left for the day. My voicemail is full of the following messages:
'It's Robert from xyz company and we have the best two new introductions, best sellers for sure. If you want to be in the first cutting I need to get in to see you.'
With all the factories going out of business being in the first cutting is crucial; these reps make me laugh.
I did have a rep in today with his sales manager. It was hard to escape the brutality of these two individuals. Halfway through the sales manager's dissertation on average sales per square foot, I began to think of that Cheers episode where Woody was dating that wealthy woman and Woody tells the woman he has no money and she suggests he go to the ATM. I'm Woody right now. I told them I had no open to buy and they finally left. Thank the fucking lord.
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