He walks into a “Fish Tackle & Everything Else” department store looking for a job.
He sits down, greets the manager and shakes his hand.
The manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?”
The young man replies, “Yes, I was a salesman back home in Texas.”
They talk and get to know each other and the manager likes him so he gave him a job.
“You start tomorrow. I’ll come by after close and see how you did.”
His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it.
After the store closed, the manager came down just like he said, “How many customers bought something from you today?”
The young man replies, “One.”
The boss looks at him and shouts “Just one?”
Our salespeople have an average of 20 to 30 customers per day!
“How much was the sale for?”
The young man replies, “$121,237.65”
The boss was now shocked, “What did you sell?”
The young man says, “First I sold a small fish hook. Then I sold him a medium fish hook. Then I sold him a larger fish hook. Then a new fishing rod.
So I asked him where he was going to fish and he said on the coast, so I told him he needed a good boat, so we went down to that department, and he got a twin-engine Boston Whaler.
He then said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull the boat, so I took him to the automotive department and sold him a truck.
The boss frowned and said, “A man came in to buy a fishhook and you sold him a boat and a truck?
No the young man replied, “No, the guy actually came here to buy some tampons for his wife and I said, “Man, your weekend’s busted, you might as well go fishing.”
The following day, the boss gave the young man a promotion.