"Roadhouse" and Polygamy
I am currently an editor / publishing coordinator at a publishing company in Fullerton. It is a weird job, I basically babysit sales reps and HOPE they do their job. Of course, they never do. The weirdest part of the job is the day to day revelations and drama. Here is ANOTHER list (thanks for paving the way Jesse)
-The owner of the company is a polygamist. He has two women, both named Deb and they both work at the company. He has two daughters with one, so maybe she is the "first Deb" and the other is the lowly "Second Deb."
-One of the salespeople is seriously crazy, she'll come in once in a while, stand in the middle of the room and scream obscenities at everyone, then she'll run in the bathroom, grab 5 rolls of toilet paper and flee the building. I've gotten a few calls from her and all she does is yell and blame me for stuff I've never done. She's also tried to tell me about her personal life, but I just hang up on her. We're allowed to do that, but just to her. I've started talking back to her, I mean, if she's still employed after all that, there is NO way they could fire me.
-The other day, one of the sales people asked one of our writers if she smoked weed, she said no, and was greeted with a long exhale, a cough, and the salesman saying "Man, this is some good shit!
-The owner pulled me and the other two girls into his office and gave us the following bits of wisdom
-We should treat the salespeople how Patrick Swayze treated his customers when he worked as a bouncer in the movie "Roadhouse." Be nice, until it is time to not be nice anymore.
-Apparently, owner man has been in AA for 14 years, so he used a lot of 12-step metaphors that I guess you'd have to be drunk to understand
- If a man breaks into your house and steals your stuff, it is unexcusable, but is he probably doing the best he can to survive? YES, he is.
- It is human nature to want to kill someone who has more food and land than you.
Of course, none of this made any sense when we were just going in to ask some questions about getting art in on time.
Also, he said "Let me put this into perspective for you" 12 times in 20 minutes and he always leaned back into his chair when he did it.
And that is all I can remember at the moment. Every day it is something else.
-The owner of the company is a polygamist. He has two women, both named Deb and they both work at the company. He has two daughters with one, so maybe she is the "first Deb" and the other is the lowly "Second Deb."
-One of the salespeople is seriously crazy, she'll come in once in a while, stand in the middle of the room and scream obscenities at everyone, then she'll run in the bathroom, grab 5 rolls of toilet paper and flee the building. I've gotten a few calls from her and all she does is yell and blame me for stuff I've never done. She's also tried to tell me about her personal life, but I just hang up on her. We're allowed to do that, but just to her. I've started talking back to her, I mean, if she's still employed after all that, there is NO way they could fire me.
-The other day, one of the sales people asked one of our writers if she smoked weed, she said no, and was greeted with a long exhale, a cough, and the salesman saying "Man, this is some good shit!
-The owner pulled me and the other two girls into his office and gave us the following bits of wisdom
-We should treat the salespeople how Patrick Swayze treated his customers when he worked as a bouncer in the movie "Roadhouse." Be nice, until it is time to not be nice anymore.
-Apparently, owner man has been in AA for 14 years, so he used a lot of 12-step metaphors that I guess you'd have to be drunk to understand
- If a man breaks into your house and steals your stuff, it is unexcusable, but is he probably doing the best he can to survive? YES, he is.
- It is human nature to want to kill someone who has more food and land than you.
Of course, none of this made any sense when we were just going in to ask some questions about getting art in on time.
Also, he said "Let me put this into perspective for you" 12 times in 20 minutes and he always leaned back into his chair when he did it.
And that is all I can remember at the moment. Every day it is something else.
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