Subject: Jane Gets A Raise
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 02:44:47 EDT
"The New Secretary"
A guy walked into his friend's office, he found him
sitting at his desk, looking very depressed. "Hey,
what's up with you?", he asks.
"Oh, its my wife," replied the man sadly. "She's
hired a new secretary for me."
"Well, nothing wrong in that. Is she blonde or
brunette or a redhead ?"
"Neither. He's bald."
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"Jane Gets A Raise"
The manager of ladies' dress shop realized it was
time to give one her sale clerks a ' pep talk '. "Jane,
your figures are well below any of our other salespeople's.
In fact, unless you can improve your sales record soon,
I'm afraid you'll have to let you go."
"I'm sorry, Ma'am," said a humbled Jane. "Can you
give me any advice on how to do better?"
"Well, there is an old trick I can tell you about. It sounds
silly, but it's worked for me in the past. Get hold of a
dictionary and go through it until you come to a word that
had particular power for you. Memorize it, work it into your
sales pitch whenever it seems appropriate, and you'll be
amazed at the results."
Sure enough, Jane's sales figures went way up, and at
the end of the month, the manager called her in again
and congratulated her. "Did you try my little trick?" she
asked.
Jane nodded. "It took me a whole weekend to find the
right word, but I did:.... ' Fantastic.' "
"'Fantastic.' What a good word," said the manager
encouragingly. "How have you been using it?"
"Well, my first customer on Monday was a woman who
told me her little girl had just been accepted at the most
exclusive prep school in the city. I said, 'Fantastic.' She
went on to tell me how her daughter always got straight
As and was the most popular girl in her class, I said
'Fantastic' and she bought $300 worth of clothing.
My next customer said she needed a formal dress for
the spring ball at the country club, which she was in
charge of. I said 'Fantastic.' She went on to tell she
had the best figure of anyone on the committee and
her husband makes the most money. I said 'Fantastic'
and she not only bought the designer gown, but hundreds
of dollars of other merchandise. It's been like that all week:
the customers keep boasting, I keep saying 'Fantastic',
and they keep buying."
"Excellent work, Jane," complimented her boss. "Just
as a point of interest, what did you used to say to
customers before you discovered your power word?"
Jane shrugged. "Well, I used to say, 'Who gives a damn?'"
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