How man of you have changed....

[marine]

Insurance sales reps are the worst IMO.

I got a call from the wife of a dental school classmate. Not really a friend, but I know him from school.

She talked my staff into getting me up from seeing someone's child to talk to her. I at first felt terrible because I thought I must have met her and didn't remember.

So I get up, unglove, go to a private phone....and the fucking cunt tries to sell me insurance. I swear my head almost exploded My BP is going up just think of the dumb bitch.

I have a rule now, if you refuse to tell my front desk why you are calling, or you leave me a voice mail and are unknown and you don't identify what you do or why you are calling, there is a 99% chance they are trying to sell me something and a 100% chance I'm not calling back.

Sorry to derail the thread :sadwave:

You're doing it wrong. Call them back. And start selling them on the opportunity to come in for a check up and cleaning.

you won't get called back after that.

 

[THE KOD]

You're doing it wrong. Call them back. And start selling them on the opportunity to come in for a check up and cleaning.

..................................................................

Tell them to come in and talk to you while you clean their teeth.

Hit them with 4 shots of novacane on each side of their mouth.

Put them on the funny gas. Then the fun begins.

Get the sharpest deepest type drill you got and do a root canal on a tooth that dont need one.

Score that tooth and turn it into mud.

When they wake up keep repeating over and over

Is it safe ?

Is it safe ?

Is it safe ?

 

[THE KOD]

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[DOGS THAT BARK]

Insurance sales reps are the worst IMO.

I got a call from the wife of a dental school classmate. Not really a friend, but I know him from school.

She talked my staff into getting me up from seeing someone's child to talk to her. I at first felt terrible because I thought I must have met her and didn't remember.

So I get up, unglove, go to a private phone....and the fucking cunt tries to sell me insurance. I swear my head almost exploded My BP is going up just think of the dumb bitch.

I have a rule now, if you refuse to tell my front desk why you are calling, or you leave me a voice mail and are unknown and you don't identify what you do or why you are calling, there is a 99% chance they are trying to sell me something and a 100% chance I'm not calling back.

Sorry to derail the thread :sadwave:

My worst would be long distace services.

on the insurances sales cold calling--IMO chances of an agent having to cold call for business to be around the next year --are slim. I know some companies force new agents to do so--but those that survive that ordeal are few.

Getting back on topic--have had 2 jobs since getting out of service on april fools day 1971.

Chrysler Corp for 11 years--and self employed (insurance) the next 28 years.

 

[dawgball]

-and self employed (insurance) the next 28 years.

And I immediately send anyone who mentions health insurance to Wayne immediately!!

Each one of them has followed up with me with huge gratitude for doing so because he was a very gracious source of information for them with ZERO sales pressure to do anything with him at all.

 

[layinwood]

for what it's worth, I feel the same way about the 3rd party recruiters & staffing firms.

on the totem pole that life is, they are the slimiest of them all.


This summer I happened to be invited to a small gathering to welcome home a good friend of mine from iraq. Hadn't seen him in about 5 years and he's been through 3 deployments over there. Got there, and his wife is a 3rd party recruiter and started telling me how she could solve all my problems... said hi, and bye to my buddy in one breath.

they are sneaky, unethical, self serving, shitballs.

Since I've been a 3rd party recruiter for 11 years and owned my own recruiting company for 8 I'll have to say this isn't true. For the last 6 years I've never made one sales call. I turn down working with more companies than I say yes to but then again I'm not sure what type of companies you've dealt with.

I don't solve companies problems. If they need an employee they either don't have time or can't find on their own then I help but I don't have any other special answers other than that.

A good way to think about recruiters(or any other type of business) is that there are different types just like investment people. A lot of them are slime balls and call you frequently with all of the answers. Then there are the investment guys you don't hear about unless it's by referral from a friend.

Stereotyping isn't the best thing to do, although I do understand why you do it.