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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:57 PM
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65. TRUE STORY.
So I'm in a SALES MEETING last Monday. About 30 Sales Reps, getting our weekly
"briefing". A couple of the new reps start complaining about the economy....
(we experienced reps refer to the economy as the "e-word", because we have
LEARNED NOT TO MENTION it in meetings, as management does not construe the
"E-word" as an excuse for missing quotas :crazy:)

...anyway, our CANVASS MANAGER wants to put a stop to this little uprising.
He gets up and says, and I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP...

"Well, if Hillary Clinton gets in the economy is going right down the tube,
and what will you do then? Everything will just get WORSE.
You just have to keep selling, this may be the EASIEST TIME!"

This, from a guy who has been outwardly NON-POLITICAL in the 5 years I've
worked with him. He said this OUT LOUD, to a ROOM FULL of people.

If I wasn't a KNOWN agitator, I would not have stood up next and said:
"To your first point, Al, I think we can ALL AGREE that one thing
worse than a Clinton win would be FOUR MORE YEARS UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE,
ANY Republican!"

This was met with whoops and claps from around 1/4 of the reps, mostly my
friends and not a few of the African American reps that had been FLABBERGASTED
at the "bosses" little speech. (They are Obama fans).

I don't think Hillary can win in the general election.
I think she's the only candidate, besides Kucinich, who CAN'T win the general.

People HATE her.

I don't like her, and I'm now in a position where I have to defend her, and
believe me, it's TEPID.

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