More thoughts on jobs and working

[Matty]

He could easily have a few demos air-shipped for a couple hundred bucks each, and I'd suddenly move lots of bikes. But he likely can't cause he hasn't paid his last bill (for the original container that was full of weird bikes that no one wants.)

FML Stevie

 

[Archie]

we just need to round up a good crew of gamelivers to head up there and start taking all the gravel and dumping it in the lakes

 

[Matty]

In semi-related news, I now have a Garmin Varia radar/camera on the back of my bike. It's kinda fun to review the rear-facing camera footage after the fact.

When I get smushed by an angry pickup truck driver, my family will be able to retrieve the footage and see exactly how fast said pickup truck was going when it smushed me.

 

[Boner_18]

Bummer man... but fuck that noise.

 

[Blitty]

That truly sucks, brosef.

I’ve experienced slightly similar situations in most of the sales gigs I’ve checked out

 

[Vegas Dave]

@Matty Sorry to hear about this good sir.

Anything stopping you from going into biz yourself? Seems like a booming market that you know well and could thrive in if bozos like this are your "competition"?

 

[Tron]

Fok Matty that really blows.

 

[Matty]

@Matty Sorry to hear about this good sir.

Anything stopping you from going into biz yourself? Seems like a booming market that you know well and could thrive in if bozos like this are your "competition"?

I mostly sell traditional pedalbikes, which isn't a booming market as much as it is a recovering one. But yes, that's the next step I'm going to explore - the Quebec guy is an independent sales rep so he's on pure commission, but that means he can rep tons of brands and doesn't have the same obligations as an employee. Whereas I'm an employee on base salary plus commission, and I'm expected to log in 40 hours a week representing only the few brands we carry (3, soon 4, but really mostly one because the other ones are tiny boutique brands.)

I had a long talk with the Quebec guy on Thursday and have another one scheduled on Monday, will ask him more questions about how it works for him. He's also losing his shit right now - he threatened to run over the owner and his family with his truck during our last call.

 

[Matty]

That truly sucks, brosef.

I’ve experienced slightly similar situations in most of the sales gigs I’ve checked out

The expert-level lying and gaslighting is insane.