Comments on: The Learning Curve http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/09/14/the-learning-curve/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:04:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: derfasaurus http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/09/14/the-learning-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-7867 derfasaurus Fri, 16 Sep 2005 04:16:50 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2000#comment-7867 This article is perfect for me right now. I've been thinking much the same way for the past few days. I recently got a job at Foley's department store. Foleys really likes to 'teach' (force) their employees to open Foleys credit accounts with their clients. They do this because on average, a customer will spend $400 more in a year if they have a credit account. They really want every one of their employees not to just offer the account, but to push it, ask if they have one, if the person does not ask them to open one, if they say no, you tell them how they'll save money, if they still say no you tell them of the coupons they will get in the mail.... etc on and on to the point where the customer might be screaming. What do I as an employee get for being 'that guy?' $1 per opened account. "Wow, a whole dollar, sweet." If you don't meet your quota for account openings, you can and will be fired. The beauty of the system is, I look at it and think of how the people at the top are really making a lot of money off this. The people around me even push me to open accounts and I can't help but think about how stupid all these people around me are, or maybe its just my understanding of the system, or my hate of corporations. Whatever the case, corporations suck and the people that work for them are brainwashed. derfasaurus This article is perfect for me right now. I’ve been thinking much the same way for the past few days. I recently got a job at Foley’s department store. Foleys really likes to ‘teach’ (force) their employees to open Foleys credit accounts with their clients. They do this because on average, a customer will spend $400 more in a year if they have a credit account. They really want every one of their employees not to just offer the account, but to push it, ask if they have one, if the person does not ask them to open one, if they say no, you tell them how they’ll save money, if they still say no you tell them of the coupons they will get in the mail…. etc on and on to the point where the customer might be screaming. What do I as an employee get for being ‘that guy?’ $1 per opened account. “Wow, a whole dollar, sweet.” If you don’t meet your quota for account openings, you can and will be fired.

The beauty of the system is, I look at it and think of how the people at the top are really making a lot of money off this. The people around me even push me to open accounts and I can’t help but think about how stupid all these people around me are, or maybe its just my understanding of the system, or my hate of corporations. Whatever the case, corporations suck and the people that work for them are brainwashed.

derfasaurus

]]> By: manxome http://www.thetalentshow.org/2005/09/14/the-learning-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-7866 manxome Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:34:23 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=2000#comment-7866 My humorous minimum wage inconveniences are similar. Getting fired two weeks into a job for failing to be able to find $9+some change when doing the final balance for the day. Getting permission to take a week off to go on vacation with my family, only to get fired upon returning because they decided after the fact that they "needed" me during that time. At 16, these experiences made me cynical right out of the gate, and I'm lucky that cynicism is all it got me. I truly cannot fathom, then, how so may people are not able to acknowledge that there are always people who are in this position of expendability, and it's not always a PT job for a suburban teen's spending money that's on the line, but a family income. I suppose acknowledging it means admitting that your wants are more important that someone else's needs. My humorous minimum wage inconveniences are similar. Getting fired two weeks into a job for failing to be able to find $9+some change when doing the final balance for the day. Getting permission to take a week off to go on vacation with my family, only to get fired upon returning because they decided after the fact that they “needed” me during that time.

At 16, these experiences made me cynical right out of the gate, and I’m lucky that cynicism is all it got me. I truly cannot fathom, then, how so may people are not able to acknowledge that there are always people who are in this position of expendability, and it’s not always a PT job for a suburban teen’s spending money that’s on the line, but a family income.

I suppose acknowledging it means admitting that your wants are more important that someone else’s needs.

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