Selling Security Software Systems
"Hey Les," Bobby said frowning at his friend, "did you get hung up on again?"
Les looked up at Bobby and grinned, "No just the opposite, I think I'm in love."
"What? You're supposed to be selling software not falling in love. Didn't they explain that to you in training?"
Lester sighed and starting writing on the call sheet.
"Well," egged Bobby," give it up, what started this?"
Les looked at his monitor. "That phone call."
Bobby raised his eyebrows. "You need to explain that."
"It was a girl, I talked to her about the system and she just kept getting me distracted."
"Now how did she do that you can't even see her?"
"She had this southern drawl and the way she said things, and my mind just went blank."
"Did she notice?"
"Yes, she started laughing at me." "Then she said that her salesmen distraction
Software was working."
Bobby laughed at that.
"So did you make a sale?"
"Not sure, I'm not even sure what I tried to sell her at this point."
"Lester?" Bobby tilted his head and laughed again.
"My mind went into auto pilot and the last thing I remember was telling her how much I loved snowmobiling."
"You like snowmobiles? I didn't know that." Bobby looked at him.
"I didn't either. I've never been on a snow mobile."
"Are you shitting me?" Bobby said.
"I wish I was." he stared at the monitor screen. "I'm supposed to call her back next Wednesday after her Tech guy gets back from Wisconsin or something like that."
Les hesitated. "Bobby, maybe you better call her next week."
"Why?"
"I might get engaged."
"Wait a minute. Give me that number."
Why what are you going to do?"
"Well, as your supervisor," he snorted, "I think I need to do a customer satisfaction survey."
"What are you talking about, you're not my supervisor and we don't do those on the phone."
"She doesn't know that." He started dialing the phone.
Les left the room and hid in the break room. He waited and waited and finally slowly walked back into the call room.
Bobby was sitting there with his head in his hands.
"So, what happened?" he asked Bobby.
Bobby lifted his head and looked at Les. "I told her my dog's names."
"You don't have any dogs." Les said grinning.
They both laughed.
"Man," Bobby sighed, "I see what you mean by distracted."
"That woman could make a fortune on phone sex."
"Dumbass, she works at a church." Lester laughed.
"Oh, by the way Les," Bobby continued.
Les looked at him.
"She enjoyed talking to you and said you were very friendly and sweet."
"Ah shit." Les blushed. "Did she tell you the chicken joke?"
Bobby shook his head, "no she told me a sink joke. What do you do if a sink knocks on you door."
"Ok, what?"
"You let that sink in."
They both laughed.
"Wait, wait," said Lester. "There were these two rednecks and one of them was carrying a bag. The other one asked what he had in the bag and the first one said chickens. The other one asked him how many he had and the first one said if you can guess how many chickens I have in this bag I'll give you both of them.
Bobby and Les were laughing hysterically.
Suddenly a red light flashed on Bobby's monitor as a voice echoed in their headsets.
"You do know that this has all been recorded don't you?" They heard Tank say slowly. "Both of you Ranger's office now you are having entirely too much fun to leave us out."
Bobby looked at Lester and grinned. "Take that phone number with you," he said.
Les had just taken a sip of water and spit it everywhere.
They laughed all the way to Ranger's office.
"We need to let the Boss do the next sales call."