Impressing My Boss’ Boss’ Boss

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005 | Uncategorized

1st Day of new job… I go in and one of the managers says “ya know, there is this seminar just starting up right now, it’s technically on used car sales, but the guy is into all that mind stuff that you do, you would probably enjoy it”. So he walked me down to the Buick dealership and got them to let me into the already booked up class.

There were probably 100 people in this class, and not to many open seats but they sat me in this one guy’s spot who had stayed out on the sales floor that day. This spot happened to be directly in front of one of the company bigshots (which i didn’t know at the time).

After a ways into this class, the speaker Paul Webb is talking about NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), A subject to which I am very familliar. At one point Paul asked everybody “who here is really familliar with NLP or has had previous training in it?”, to which I was the ONLY person to raise my hand. Talk about being on the spot… Paul started asking me questions about what I knew, and books I had read etc.. I answered them and one of my responses mentioning Richard Bandler spawned him off onto a whole new story about how he had gone to one of Bandlers exclusive seminars in Europe. Then everytime he had some other question or point to make about NLP he would refer back to me or things I had brought up.

Well, this seemed like a good way to start a new career. Later that day a different sales manager was taking me around to show me the facilities and introduce me to a million people. One of them he tracked down to introduce me to was his Boss’ Boss, AKA “The Guy Who Was Sitting Behind Me At The Class”. Well he starts telling me how impressed he was with me already and how when Webb is gone, they will have to have me train the employees. Then he asks where I was from, and that place just happened to be where he had coached baseball for a long time a few years back etc…

Damn, I am thrilled shitless, I mean what a way to start a 1st day, getting in like flint my boss’ boss’ boss. Honestly though, he seemed to be a very nice, easy going kind of guy; which seems odd for somebody so high up on the scrotum poll.