Challenge 1 —
Getting hired at a chain of mattress stores, where the commission sales people are Sharks. Happened to a friend of mine. The other sales people edge-cheated like crazy. One guy told my friend, “Your customer’s still in the store,” in a self-hypnotic kind of way. And then the guy jumped the “up list.” My friend didn’t know what to say.
Maybe . .
Start “normal and reasonable.” Be ready to pull back to tight and defensive when necessary. Be ready to reciprocate “normal and reasonable.”
With my friend . . .
Don’t try to respond to the details of every weird situation. Have a few general things such as,
“I’m here to do my job … [buys you time] … and my customer has in fact left the store, several minutes ago. You’re free to look around or not, as you so choose. But my customer has left, and I’m next. And that is my job.”
even that won’t work 100%
helps to be physically large individual, but even that’s not 100%. The young sharks will bet on the fact that you’re not going to commit the crime of assault and battery in a work setting.