What was the worst job you ever had? Mine was my last job, I loved the kids, I disliked the principal and the way it

[OldBaldy1701E]

59. Roaming Speaker Sales.

Once, I was desperate enough to try my hand at some retail. We would drive around and try to interest people in these speakers we had. They were a decent pair I suppose, but the idea was to convince the person that we are delivery people and that we were supposed to only come here with one pair of speakers, but they kept on loading the van, and so we decided that we could sell off the other pairs we had, make the original delivery, and pay for a hotel for the night. (It was all a bunch of crap, we had a vendors license and were just selling speakers. The act was to convince people that they were going to get a great deal on a pair of great speakers.) I was a performer for 45 year, but this was just too much for me. Especially when we were told not to talk about the speakers themselves, other than to say that they were really good and normally cost a lot. I just did not like doing that crap. I was there for three days.

(The dude in charge would give a pep talk every morning. He would use terms like 'ducks', which referred to the potential customers. We were told to make sure to 'get our ducks in a row' and to make sure that our ducks were 'corralled' into the sale. It was dehumanizing in my opinion.)