Decisions, What a Pain in the Ass!

Thursday, October 27th, 2005 | Uncategorized

Well, today was the day. The day I decided to quit. I only lasted 2 months, certainly not the longest I have gone. I learned a lot there. I still believe Zimbrick Honda to be as good as car sales gets. I just don’t feel like I belonged there.

Now the decision to quit was a pain in the mental ass (or whatever the verbal equivalent is)! I mean I just quit a $80-100k a year job!!!! Hell, I was good at it, and would of gotten even better with time!

So I am sure most people think *or know* I am nuts…. Or at least would if they didn’t personally know me, since all you have to do is talk to me for 3.23 minutes (or so) to figure out what I am passionate about. I had to be honest with myself, I didn’t enjoy what I was doing, I was good at it, and it was good for me… but I was not happy, so that’s the end of the story.

Well, perhaps there is a bit more story….

So I went in to quit gracefully. You know, 2+ weeks notice and hopefully a letgo saying “ok James, feel free to keep doing outside sales for us since it’s so damn natural for you to just sell things to people at random” or something like that. However the Sales Manager didn’t have the same idea in mind…

Now awhile back when I talked to both Sales Managers both of them had wanted me to stay, and were very nice about it, glad that I was willing to talk to them abou it. However when I decided to work for myself over working for them it was a different story with one of the Managers.

He said I would regret it, and told me that if I was going to leave that I should do it right then and there! I mean empty your desk, do not pass go, do not collect $200 dollars! He said that if I wanted to leave he didn’t want me to talk to any of their customers, which is sad because I have nothing against the company, so they are missing out on some extra sales.

I was not in a hurry to leave as I wanted to say goodbye to everybody, which since that Manager (aka the emotional manager) decided he couldn’t take it and needed to go home directly after our conversation…. gave me plenty of time to talk to just about everybody.

So I can’t stay and get another somewhat helpful paycheck, but I did get some nice parting gifts. One of them being a computer monitor. Yes, I said that correctly, and NO I didn’t steal it. It was given to me earlier in the day by one of bigshots who had just gotten a new monitor, and didn’t want the old one. After several “are you sure?’s, I happily stuffed it in my car ;)

The other being, and yes I know you have all been waiting for this (how sad). A Pufferfish, with “squeeze and squirt action” Yes that’s right, I am quoting that directly off the original label that came with it. This was given to me after orientation, it has served me well for entertaining people while they are at my desk on numerous occasions.

I COULD leave it for the next person, but then I wouldn’t have it. So SMOKE YOU, IT’S MINE!

Lastly I worked out a deal with one of the nicest salesman there that I will get $50 bucks for every person I refer to him in the future. Now granted, that sucks compared to doing outside sales, but that means when people are looking for a car I still have a person to send them to. Get it, yes, I get $50 bucks, but you get the nicest salesman and a great car, so PLEASE keep asking me about cars :)

Hmm, I suppose now I need to make some more websites, or something, and fairly soon since I didn’t stay long enough to get ahead on my bills. Bah.

               

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