I do not want to buy into your ‘money saving electricity supply’ program. No, I don’t know what it is, but I suspect it’s just another multi-level marketing plan that requires me to sell these plans to all my friends and family to save 5 bucks. No thanks.
The sticky pads that you apply to your abdomen guaranteed to make me lose 6 inches overnight? No way. Rumor says they smell like Ben Gay and there is nothing on the planet that will make you lose six inches overnight unless you count things like Ebola virus or some other hemorrhagic fever. Don’t want that either, thanks.
Sticky pads that I apply to my feet that remove all my toxins overnight while I sleep? Also a “No”. How could that possibly work? How do I know it won’t remove my brain cells by accident? In fact, I think that’s what they do.
I don’t mind the candy bars for baseball or the Girls Scout cookies- if you just leave that stuff in the lounge and let me decide on my own. But please quit approaching me to buy these bogus products. Why are you all so gullible?
I am with you 100% on this. One of my peers is selling weight-loss shakes, and tries to work that into conversations whenever he can. Annoyingly, on his Facebook profile (and I know this is petty, but whatever), he changed his “employer” section so it shows that he’s employed by this shake company, rather than the corporation who we both work for. And he’s a manager (admittedly, a low-level one, just like me). He posted one day that he was actively striving for a “job-optional” lifestyle, meaning he could decide each day when he woke up whether he wanted to work. Pal, you keep missing deadlines, checking your phone in staff meetings while our boss’ boss is addressing us, and pissing your team off, you’re going to be living that dream more quickly than you’d imagine.
Also: he lost a certain amount of weight on his shakes and then plateaued. It’s very apparent. And one of the gals here who bought the shakes, same thing happened to her. Guess they’re not that effective. :smack:
Ugh. I work with a girl who is selling cleanses. Well, she wasn’t up front about it at first-- all of her Facebook posts were about how HEALTHY!!! she feels and how in CONTROL!!! of her body she felt. Then it slowly slipped into veiled attempts at getting people to cleanse with her. . . and now she outright advertises it.
Why yes, friend, if I only drink cayenne pepper water for a week, I will most definitely get thinner. I don’t have to pay $150 for the privilege, as I have both water and cayenne pepper I can use to anorexia myself at my home already if I ever feel so inclined.
Most of the companies I’ve worked for, including this one and my previous one, have very strict rules about soliciting at work. The most I’ve seen in years is the box of fund raising candy bars on the counter by the coffee pot with the honor system pay envelope. At the last place, someone got a written notice on the first offense for sending around a solicitation email, and people doing so much as having something at their desk for it were told to remove it immediately or face disciplinary action.
Certainly, if I was getting regular solicitations from someone at work, I’d be filing complaints.
The solicitations for people’s religious groups are the worst…this week it was a mass emailing (and later, flyers all over the place) advertising a spagetti (sic) plate sale to benefit some ministry. It makes for damn awkward conversation when people approach you with it, too…“Don’t you want a spaghetti plate? It’s only $7! You always get spaghetti when we go to Luigi’s, why don’t you get a plate? It’s made by Joe’s wife’s friend’s sister’s choir director – it’s homemade! Do you want a plate?”
Some folks are also selling monogrammed bags, personalized ‘Origami Owl’ lockets and necklaces, and ‘scentsy’ candle-like products.
The weight loss wraps are called ‘Skinny Girl Wraps’. I guess they don’t claim to make you lose weight just tone you, reduce your waist (or whatever) by inches, and get rid of cellulite and stretch marks. But that is not all! They also detoxify you all while giving you energy and your skin nutrients!
So their website says they don’t claim you will lose inches, but then proceeds to tell you to measure your waistline for 2-3 days.
Quote: "We cannot claim inch loss, however The more water you drink the slimmer and better your body toning result will be.
Remove the wrap after a minimum of 45 minutes and rub the remaining ingredients into your skin. Remeasure the area and document. It will continue to work on the skin for 72 hours.
Keep drinking water the next 2 days, measuring day 2 and day 3."
Since we’re all together, anybody want to order some girl scout cookies? You can pay for it from all the savings earned from the coupon books you bought from me, er, her, a few months ago.
At my last job I was one of the very few childless employees. I was constantly being hit up for something - baseball, softball, band…and I didn’t have any kids so I could sell them shit. Pissed me off.
I did give in and buy a huge tub of cookie dough. It was surprisingly good, and made enough for an entire team of hockey players.
My neighbor’s daughter sold something like that one year…it was a big plastic tub full of cookie dough, and all you had to do was plop it on a sheet and bake. The cookies were good, and they impressed the heck out of my coworkers.
I have purchased wrapping paper being sold to benefit the private secular school of my department manager’s son; however, he did not approach me directly (the packet was being passed around only on that side of the building). I also made it very clear that my purchase was entirely motivated by my desire to avoid Hallmark during Wrapping Paper Season.
I actually don’t mind fundraisers at work or selling of items as long as your co-workers don’t go begging for you to purchase something.
The worst products I seen people sell at my workplace is Avon products. It is basically Chanel Dollar Store. Mass produced products of Avon that are advertised in their magazines are pictured as being extravenge, fun and exotic. Yeah I think air is amazing also :rolleyes:
A couple of jobs ago I worked with this girl I liked and thought was really cute. One day she said she wanted to talk to me, and it got me pretty excited thinking she wanted to do something with me socially.
Then she goes into this pitch for some kind of traveling rewards scheme BS and what a great opportunity it would be for me. Heartbreaking.
Psh, Avon can be fun and I don’t know anyone who thinks Avon is exotic and extravagant. What crack are you smokin? I dig their nail polishes. Most chicks I know who love Avon mostly like it for cheap but cute flip flops and jewelry.
I keep boxed “healing crystals” (actually they are rather nice rose quartz pieces if you like that sort of thing for jewelry) in a desk drawyer at work as a pre-emptive strike against anyone that come around hawking stuff. Sometimes fighting fire with fire works best.
