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elSicomoro · 08-03-2002, 02:23 PM

I happened to think about my old job in DC last week and it brought back some funny memories.

As I mentioned previously, I worked for a direct marketing company that sold diploma frames and bed linens to college students when I lived in DC. It basically worked like this: We got your information from your school (we worked with about 600 colleges at the time), sent you the info, you called us and placed an order or sent the order by mail. I took orders over the phone for the first 9 months I worked there.

I try to be as articulate as possible over the phone, as did the other 2 reps. However, my buddy Sal spoke rather softly, and had a deep voice. People always fucked his name up when referring to him in a later call: Saul, Seth, Al, Hal, Thal (?). It got to the point where he would use one of these names in taking a call.

I was probably the most articulate of the 3 of us, and it never ceased to amaze me: Gary, Kerry, Perry, Tom (huh?), Barry, Jerry, Larry. How they got this from "Terry," I will never know.

08-03-2002, 02:23 PM	#56
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	I happened to think about my old job in DC last week and it brought back some funny memories. As I mentioned previously, I worked for a direct marketing company that sold diploma frames and bed linens to college students when I lived in DC. It basically worked like this: We got your information from your school (we worked with about 600 colleges at the time), sent you the info, you called us and placed an order or sent the order by mail. I took orders over the phone for the first 9 months I worked there. I try to be as articulate as possible over the phone, as did the other 2 reps. However, my buddy Sal spoke rather softly, and had a deep voice. People always fucked his name up when referring to him in a later call: Saul, Seth, Al, Hal, Thal (?). It got to the point where he would use one of these names in taking a call. I was probably the most articulate of the 3 of us, and it never ceased to amaze me: Gary, Kerry, Perry, Tom (huh?), Barry, Jerry, Larry. How they got this from "Terry," I will never know.