Yeah, they are just putting food on the table--by taking the food FROM YOUR table. That is what disingenuous, misleading, manipulative, insidious, and less than honest sales is, especially when, the product you get is NOT the product they told you about and for which making the sale at all costs allows for lies just to make the sale. They have very good product training, and they do know the product to a high degree. They also have excellent psychological training in how to manipulate people and succeeded in FOOLING a nice person into making sales for them without having to do the work themselves. They were having a good laugh at this nice person at their post sales meetings and social time at some bar for being so EASILY psychologically exploited for their deeds and commissions. I presume they offered a share of their commission to the nice person who did their work for them. That would be the ethical thing to do, but then again, no one is ethical on their side.
I was in sales, very tough sales, but never did I stoop to what the companies today require and what the employees willingly do, not for food on the table, but for the next iPhone. These are kids doing this work. I detested sales and found other work, something we all do when we have truly had our limit, or feel that what we are doing is WRONG. We can live with rude bosses and crazy management and less than ideal work conditions, but we can sleep well at night knowing we aren't doing something that we know is not right, but make excuses for doing it. Does anyone really believe any of those sales people CARE about the person they are selling to? It's all about the sale and they don't care if you have to chop off your finger to buy what they are selling.
The notion of "putting food on the table" is never an excuse for unethical or even immoral behavior that is also against the teachings of every World Religion, if you want the religious argument. I suppose the old WWJD logic could be employed: would Jesus work for one of these outfits? Or would Jesus be criticizing such companies for exploiting the employees so and would He hold the sales people themselves responsible for exercising their free will in making a poor choice and for them to go and put food on the table consistent with his teachings? I suppose this takes all those Funeral Home sales people off the hook, too? If it's all about my needs and desire, then their is no restraint in any human behavior.
Please, these sales folks are not on the horns of a dilemma faced by Jean Valjean, and we aren't wandering the bombed wasteland of Dresden, Berlin, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki. None of us HAVE to do this work, unless we find it profitable or fitting to the worst in our personalities. After all, these companies have a very high turnover and depend greatly on sales people RECRUITING new people to join these companies to sell these products, so LOTS of people are moving on from these companies every day, and that does NOT put food on the table. Sales people like those cited here often have great disdain for the "customer" they sell to. I've head it myself on many occasions. Now, where is Inspector Jarvert when you need him.
