Red-Ringed Tupperware Party with (ineffective) Tin Foil Hats (2)

The next insurance dips#$t raided me at a Starbucks coffee joint, sitting down UNINVITED at my table and started telling me some horror story about 'what happens if you're 40 and you get fired'.

I should have told him what exactly I was thinking: "So, I become like you and flog insurance on the street because you are a loser middle manager who was too incompetent to get promoted and too expensive to be downsized?"

I worked HR for 2 years. I managed the incompetent. I know damn well that kind when they come looking for me and I swear I do NOT like them.

My job is to ensure it never happens to me. Hence all the career sacrifices: there's a reason why I'm several thousand miles from home, cold, miserable, putting up with getting the shaft from Hell Week on the frontline, putting up with acts of random evil that come my way, all the career sacrifices to make damn sure I don't end up like that fool.

The next person who tries to sell me ANYTHING insurance-related for damn sure has their work cut out for them and a lifetime of shattered trust to rebuild before they start.

Lightstream wrote in post #3655228
I should also tell y'all about the story of the last insurance agent who tried to 'sell' me a policy. After discovering I had a 350D, 17-85, 10-22, and some cheap telezoom (all in all still worth at least $2.5K of cover), the f$#kjob started insulting me about my station in life. Admittedly I haven't had it good. Hell, I've never had it good until perhaps the last couple of years. I've been through a lot more than most people realize.

So anyway he starts going off on me, also probably fuelled by my lack of interest in his 'other' products. This is a guy who was PERSONALLY recommended to me by someone I know really well and who knows me really well, not just some insurance dickweed off the street.

I told him in explicit terms to knock off the personal insults and get down to business. Over dinner he continued to pepper me with all kinds of really offensive stuff. The best part? He later told my friend 'he didn't realize what impact it would have on me'. Even after being told bluntly to knock it off?

I went home and swore to God that the day I got my 1-series, 16-35, 24-70, 70-200/2.8 ISL, he would not get that contract.

It turns out that I got my 1-series, 17-40, 24-105 ISL, 724ISL and a boatload of other nice stuff much sooner than I imagined. He still hasn't gotten that contract. I intend on keeping my promises to On High.

I know I am not the most wonderfully charming of all people. But hell, even I know for damn sure I don't OPENLY INSULT a customer I actually intend to sell to!

Gotta love insurance agents

Lightstream wrote in post #3655246
The next insurance dips#$t raided me at a Starbucks coffee joint, sitting down UNINVITED at my table and started telling me some horror story about 'what happens if you're 40 and you get fired'.

I should have told him what exactly I was thinking: "So, I become like you and flog insurance on the street because you are a loser middle manager who was too incompetent to get promoted and too expensive to be downsized?"

I worked HR for 2 years. I managed the incompetent. I know damn well that kind when they come looking for me and I swear I do NOT like them.

My job is to ensure it never happens to me. Hence all the career sacrifices: there's a reason why I'm several thousand miles from home, cold, miserable, putting up with getting the shaft from Hell Week on the frontline, putting up with acts of random evil that come my way, all the career sacrifices to make damn sure I don't end up like that fool.

The next person who tries to sell me ANYTHING insurance-related for damn sure has their work cut out for them and a lifetime of shattered trust to rebuild before they start.

i can do you a great deal on toe nail insurance protect you nails for life with very low monthly payments

so whats your job lightstream?

Zilly wrote in post #3655257
i can do you a great deal on toe nail insurance protect you nails for life with very low monthly payments

so whats your job lightstream?

Currently? IT Whore. Sadly.

What ticks me off is call centre people trying to chat with you. Well, I don't mind the nice ones, it's the ones that are downright dumb.

This one yesterday wanted to know my password. I didn't remember any such thing at all, so he starts turning it into some kind of riddle, making me guess at it. After me getting frustrated at him, he finally asks "What's your mother's maiden name?" and things continue.

Then he asked me what I did (twice in the same 5 minute conversation while he tells me my card payment has failed after he write down the wrong number).

Then, after hearing I work with computers, he says that he's got a problem with his Microsoft Windows XP Professional (that's the way he said it). He bought a copy off his brother and now his automatic update won't work so he has to buy a license.

Lightstream wrote in post #3655262
Currently? IT Whore. Sadly.

nice alot of guys i know are getting into it seams like a popular career choice i was the guy at school who new about computers but didnt want anything to do with them (the anti nerd if you like)

When I was at college, I wanted to do something science/biology related. I couldn't get in on that class, so I followed a friend of mine (who was doing computers).

All went downhill from there....

Zilly wrote in post #3655282
nice alot of guys i know are getting into it seams like a popular career choice i was the guy at school who new about computers but didnt want anything to do with them (the anti nerd if you like)

No worries about that. I recommend staying away from the line of fire especially if you don't particularly love computers. The attrition rate on this job is pretty high.

Sometimes I honestly wonder how I made it this far after 11 years, two career-killing decisions (first one almost cost me my life into the bargain - that's how horrific it was). And I wonder why I'm still here. Probably only because there's nowhere else to go. And probably because the first decision didn't finish me off.

Pete wrote in post #3655289
When I was at college, I wanted to do something science/biology related. I couldn't get in on that class, so I followed a friend of mine (who was doing computers).

All went downhill from there....

I got a Marine Biology Degree, if I could do it all over, Geology would be it

calicokat wrote in post #3655294
I got a Marine Biology Degree, if I could do it all over, Geology would be it

If I had to do it all over again...I would never have gone to college.

Better to be happy and make less $$ than suffer for everything you believe in.

Lightstream wrote in post #3655303
If I had to do it all over again...I would never have gone to college.

Better to be happy and make less $$ than suffer for everything you believe in.

I loved college, great memories, oh, the classwork was nice too

calicokat wrote in post #3655306
I loved college, great memories, oh, the classwork was nice too

You have no idea how much I envy people who had the time of their lives there... it really does hurt

Lightstream wrote in post #3655311
You have no idea how much I envy people who had the time of their lives there... it really does hurt

I learned alot about the finer aspects of life. What not to drink, who not to date, oh, and something about physics

calicokat wrote in post #3655315
I learned alot about the finer aspects of life. What not to drink, who not to date, oh, and something about physics

I learned some sacrifices were not worth making and that education was nowhere near what it pretended to be.

Lightstream wrote in post #3655318
I learned some sacrifices were not worth making and that education was nowhere near what it pretended to be.

I agree, Common Sense is far more useful in todays society, but getting a college degree is still a feat, and it cannot hurt anything