SOME (SALES) PEOPLE ARE STRANGE

“Ang hirap sa mga ahente na yan, ipapangako sa inyo ang langit at lupa para lang makabenta.”

“Ang problema naman sa kanya, kapag nakuha na niya ang tseke niya, wala na siyang pakialam sa amin, eh.”

These are truths about “property consultants”/”marketing specialists“/”sales associates“ or whatever “professional” term they fancy calling themselves. Sure, the statements above were made by administrators and engineers who may not fully understand a quota-driven, commission-based and talk-induced kind of living but I have noticed that predicament too. I have seen first-hand, staff and executives alike in a “Client Relations” Department DEVOUR each other before, and their everyday life is full of hypocrisy. They tend to lie to each other as colleagues and make false statements to both customer and co-worker not only about what they’re selling, but also about what’s happening around them. That company ultimately disintegrated. What a shame. It’s sad that their QUANTITATIVE way of thinking has affected the QUALITY of how some of them correlate with others, and it’s irritating that we sometimes fall in the middle of their “miscommunication”!

I know that marketing is part-“talent”, but it’s disturbing that some sales people have become pathological liars.