I was one of those for like a week selling AT&T U-Verse. I'm not really a salesman though so that's why I only lasted there for like a week lol.
But I got to see the other side of door to door sales and it's even crazier than you think it is. No joke, if you see a sign that says "no soliciting" you pretend like it doesn't even exist and ask anyway. The amount of spinning the truth too is pretty insane. It isn't exactly legal to solicit neighborhoods in San Antonio where I was, but we could totally get away with doing it because we weren't actually going to every single house we could. Instead, AT&T gave us a list of houses to go of people who were current or former customers of ANY product. Cell phone, internet, home phone, you name it. So because of that we could tell the people we knocked on doors and the police that we weren't really soliciting. Hell someone called the cops on us one day and we showed the cop the list of people we had and the cop was like "oh ok as long as you aren't knocking on every single door and just sticking to that list."
These salesman (and women, there were a few women coworkers) have huge balls to do this all the time because they get doors slammed in their face and someone even told us to get the fuck off his property because apparently we banged on the door too loud after ringing the doorbell. And you have to remember those door slams too otherwise be embarrassed when you circle the neighborhood once and knock on that same door to see that same pissed off person looking like they want to beat your ass for disturbing them.
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