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Originally posted by obediah
But the ability to form and respect prejudices has been key to our species survival and expansion. If you think about it prejudices are good for everything on the planet except other people. Sure there are always exceptions, but when something could be liefe or death and your's is the only life involved which do you want the 90% chance or the 10% chance. I think it's this deep dependance on prejudices that make it hard for us not to pre-judge other people. Not making excuses, just trying to understand the problem.
All that said, being nice doesn't seem to be a big requirement for car salespeople, so perhaps over time it usually works out that a salesperson does better not wasting their time with people that don't look like they could affortd the product.
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Correct, and correct!
To the original poster, I think you got lucky. In the car sales industry I imagine that one would have the best success by going (being the first to snag) the 'big fishes' and by snagging as many as possible. Since cars are really expensive it's not a bad thing to have your 'pre-judgements' or whatever you'd like to call it. It can save you time and money.
Yup, I'm convinced that you got lucky, but that's still a great story, and your co-worker is still and asshole. He's just a sore loser... sort of like a 6 year old. But, that's not to say his methods of sales are 'bad', maybe they're not morally correct but they get -for the most part- more cash in your wallet.
I've worked (kind of) in soliciting so I do know this: everyone is a potential customer. With what I was selling, this was VERY true since what we sold didn't really cost much unless you purchased in bulk.
Ok, it's getting late here (5:32am) I think i'm going to downgrade to level 'sleepy'.
Good luck with your future sales and great job on this one!
ps: just from what you said about the other guy I really want to kick his ass. I know too many people that act that same fucking way -they're sore losers.