shakran

There we firmly disagree. I've gotten recruiters on tape saying stuff like that.

And one of the immutable laws of salesmen is that many of them are quick to break that rule.

One of the problems is that recruiters have quotas to fill, and they're finding it hard to fill those quotas now that the country's embroiled in a conflict that has nothing at all to do with the military's purpose. Many are completely willing to step up and defend the country - but that does not mean they're willing to become hired guns set to kill randomly at the president's whim.

They've already adjusted the quotas downward so they could report to the media that they were meeting their quotas, but that backfired both because they couldn't meet the new quotas, and because we found out about the quota adjustment.

If the recruiter doesn't meet his quota, he gets in hot water with his superior officers. That's enough to push some of them to make BS promises that they know they can't keep, but that won't hurt them - -- after all, once you're in the military, as you pointed out, you don't get to just leave simply because it's not everything the recruiter told you it would be.

One of the reasons for the "don't promise what you can't deliver" rule is that 1) it will give the customer grounds to negate the current sale and 2) it will lose you a repeat customer. Military recruiters can't lose the current sale because once the "customer" signs the contract, he belongs to the military. Period. And they don't have to worry about repeat customers because that won't effect their bottom line either way - - whether this guy re-enlists or not, the recruiter won't get credit for it. He's still got to go find new recruits.


Agreed that he's either naive or an idiot - in fact he admits as much in the intro: "poor uneducated. . . "