Excuses, Excuses

According to the all powerful management team, the only plausible reason you aren't pulling 30+ orders a week is because you are a worthless piece of shit. This sentiment held true for some of the Grade A scum on crew, but for the rest of us, it was completely false.

About eighty percent of The Jones' are comprised of hard working, middle class, productive members of society. These people are at their nine to five, from (you guessed it) nine to five. Usually they are home by six, and eating dinner by seven. The other ten percent is made up of housewives, retirees(or people on a fixed income),broke college students, and smart people who don't answer the door to someone they aren't expecting or don't know.

These statistics in mind, how exactly do you think I'm going to sell you a magazine if you are at work for the first three drops of my day? What feasible outcome can manifest when I knock on your door while you are making/eating dinner? How on earth am I going to get my numbers up if you won't even come to the door? Walk in and write the check myself? Take the cash right out of your wallet? The pressure to perform is much more suffocating when there is no such thing as a variable in the equation to success.

Step 1- Knock Door
Step 2- ??
Step 3- Profit

You were out on T for ninety minuets and no one answered the door? That's not a reason to have blanked this drop you weak piece of shit!

The only Jones you talked to has a fixed income and an array of health problems that they need to use their fixed income on? You really should have slammed them for 5 orders, fucking dumbass.

You mean to tell me that the reason you only picked up one order this drop is because you were in police custody for eighty of ninety minutes? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, WORTHLESS MOTHER FUCKER? GOD DAMNIT GET TO WORK!!!!!!!

This is where kids become corrupt.
There is no such thing as an excuse. Kids become desperate to meet their quota, they shoot orders (tell your car handler you got one when you really didn't in hopes of making up the difference on the next drop),they literally scare people into buying, they are overly aggressive, they steal, they tell people to give them the sale right then and there and they can cancel it the next day. You're only as good as your last drop. Kids don't eat or smoke for days so they can fake orders with their own money. The average subscription price was about eighty dollars. If you're living off twenty dollars a day,and you give up eating and smoking, how long will it take for you to be able to fake your orders? Some of these tactics only have a short term effect, it works for that day, sometimes even that week. Come Sunday, you find out only half of your orders went through, due to cancellations.

So what's your motivation? I realize that by giving people a push to do better is a smart business move, but Management was most definitely giving the wrong execution of the right plan. By intimidating your workforce with the idea that N O T H I N G they produce is ever going to be good enough, you're taking away the positivity and drive required to be a productive sales person. You're breaking their spirit by badgering them for not producing when the situation was completely out of their control. You have successfully turned them into a mindless drone who's only purpose is to serve management.

I realize some kids slack off on drops, and use the aforementioned scenarios as a way to justify their lack of effort. Management treats everyone as if they are lazy pieces of shit. That makes it tough for anyone who was genuinely making a concerted effort to have a voice. Management automatically assumes that no matter what the reality of the situation was, you were sitting on your ass the entire drop if you hadn't picked up at least five orders.

Again, what is your motivation? You become so broken down the only thing you're really working for is to get your twenty dollar draw, and to keep the insults and humiliation to a minimum.

Super fun, right?

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