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Just go fishing

TheeOSU

FUCK IT!

The manager of an everything-under-one-roof store is showing a new employee the ropes. "Okay," he says, "you said you have sales experience, that's good. have you ever worked at a store like this though?"

The new guy says no.
"Okay, so let me tell you about how things work here. You should try to get 20 to 30 sales a day and you can take any sales no matter what they're buying; that's about it. I'll come back to see how you did at the end of the day, good luck."

So the new guy goes about his day and at 5 PM the boss comes back. "Okay," he says, "how many sales have you made?" The guy replies, "One."

"One sale?!" The boss is infuriated.

"Yeah, just the one," the salesman says.

"All of our other employees had over 45 sales today, how did you only have one. I thought you were experienced... Whatever, how much was it for?"

The salesman answers, "Something like $480,350.65."

The boss is blown away. "500 thousand?! What on earth did you sell?!"

The salesman tells him "I was talking to a guy and he mentioned his fishing not being that good, so I said he should get a new brand of bait. Then he said his fishing poles are crappy, so I got him to buy a new set. Then I asked if he had a boat to fish on, he said no, so I sold him one. Then he told me his Honda couldn't pull the boat to water, so I sold him a new truck to haul the boat with."

The manager says, mouth agape, "So let me get this straight. A guy walked in wanting to buy fishing bait and you sold him a boat and a truck?!"

The salesman replies "No, he walked in wanting to buy tampons for his wife and I said 'dude, your weekend is shot, you should go fishing.'"