I work for a warehouse type of store......on the Demo team. Don't know what Demos are ? I give out samples of different products in the store for sale. I wear a white collared shirt,black pants & a black apron. When us Demo ladies clock-in for our shift.....they call it "The march of the penguins." There use to be 4 shifts...10-6..10:30-6:30...11-7....& 11:30-7:30. Now there are 2....the 11 shift & the 11:30 shift. Makes for a long day. Even longer if I have to take the bus home & I'm on the 11:30 shift. The bus comes at 5 Min's. after the hour. So, I wait till 8:05 to get the bus......& it takes 45 Min's. to get to my Apt. building from work. So, some times I don't get home till after 9.....ah...that's P.M. & that's after 8 hours of standing on a cement floor as well.
Anyway, I have been doing Demos for a long time. I started in 1999 in Florida......Now I live in Wisconsin....& I'm still doing Demos. I got into it because I like talking to people. But, this job in Wisconsin is nothing like the job in Florida. First of all.....most of the people who come into the store...come in to Just eat the samples. (I call them "Swoopers", they run by your table & swoop up a sample.) And, they will actually tell you that too....."Oh sorry, I don't have a membership card,I can't buy anything, I just came in for the samples." ........Or my very favorite one....."You could have LUNCH here." ...or..."What's for LUNCH ?"
There is this one man who will always ask....."What are you giving away today ?".......& I always tell him...."Nothing, but today I'm SELLING..."
Excuse me ! I'm not standing here to feed you LUNCH ! I'm SELLING a product. Plain & simple. I have a set "Goal" of how much product I have to sell everyday. And, all these people who come into the store to just eat....are not helping. Some of the other Demo ladies say they feel kind of sorry for the "Older" people who come in to "Just" eat the samples...because it might be the only "Meal" they get that day. Not me. And, that brings me to my other job...the volunteer one. I live in an Apt. building for "Older Adults"......I, myself being an older adult. On the main floor...off the Lobby...there's a small kitchen & large Dinning room. It's a meal site for "Older Adults". I help serve the meal. We serve about 50 adults a noon meal Mon to Fri. So, if these people were really that hungry......they would be welcome to come to the meal site...instead of eating up all my samples.
For the life of me......I can't understand WHY anybody would come to a store just to eat the samples anyway. I could think of a lot of things I rather be doing....then walking around a store & eating samples. It's just not cool. Oh well, that's my world.
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