A young man from Alabama moves to New York.
He walks into an “Everything under one roof” 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 man replies, “Yes, I was a saleman back home in Alabama”
They talk and get to know each other and the manager likes him so he gave him the job. “You start tomorrow. I’ll come by after we close and see how you did.”
His first day on the job was rough, but he pulled through it.
After the store closed, the manager came down just like he said, “How many customers bought something from you today?”
The 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 man replies “$121,237.65”
The boss was now shocked: “What did you sell?”
The man says, “First I sold him a small fishhook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook. 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, we went down to that department, and he got a twin engine Boston Whaler. Then he 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 here to buy a fishhook and you sold him a boat and a truck???”
The man replied, “No”, the guy actually came here to buy some t.a.m.p.o.n.s for his wife and I said, “Man, your weekend’s busted, might as well go fishing’.”
The following day, the boss gave the young man a promotion…