{"id":441,"date":"2005-05-25T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=441"},"modified":"2005-05-25T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T16:59:00","slug":"sales-people-are-daft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2005\/05\/25\/sales-people-are-daft\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales People Are Daft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What&#8217;s not clear here?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(items in all caps are what I&#8217;ve changed to protect myself from being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=dooced&#038;r=f\">dooced<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This email is sent to me&#8230;<br \/><i>Subject: CLIENT NAME<br \/>Is this ad going to be new or is it a pickup?<br \/>Thanks,<br \/>STUPID SALES PERSON<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Since this person runs about 5 different publications for this client I&#8217;m not sure which one she&#8217;s talking about so I say:<\/p>\n<p><i>If you mean for the SPECIFIC PAPER we&#8217;ll be sending a new ad today.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>She replies:<br \/><i>In regards to Monday&#8217;s 5\/30 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PAPER<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So I look around and what I&#8217;ve got from the client for the entire month of May shows no ads running for the holiday weekend&#8230;the next round of ads begins June 5&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I say:<br \/><i>We don&#8217;t have 5\/30 FOR THAT PAPER on our schedules from the client. As far as we know they aren&#8217;t planning to run. You should contact THE CLIENT and ask them if they are running on 5\/30, as far as our paperwork on this end, we don&#8217;t show an insertion on 5\/30 in THAT PAPER.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>She replies with:<br \/><i>They are running weekly with us through the end of the year.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So I want to know&#8230;which part of WE HAVE NOTHING, CALL THE CLIENT does this daft sales rep not UNDERSTAND??<\/p>\n<p>and&#8230; just to prove that I was right from the beginning the client said this to her:<\/p>\n<p><i>No..I don&#8217;t have an ad on my schedule..we never run holidays<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>HA!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s not clear here? (items in all caps are what I&#8217;ve changed to protect myself from being dooced) This email is sent to me&#8230;Subject: CLIENT NAMEIs this ad going to be new or is it a pickup?Thanks,STUPID SALES PERSON Since this person runs about 5 different publications for this client I&#8217;m not sure which one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}