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i'm so dumb- i thought i would feel less stressed once charlie started working, but now we're both a wreck. we've been tested since we came back from our honeymoon. everything was just fine when we were living in sin. it was as though life was waiting for us to be officially married before it spit in our face.
for a company that's been around for 130 years, they sure do make their agents start out in a shady way... i guess it's still part of the weeding out process. medicare supplement information gets sent to people about to turn 65. because he's at the bottom of the totem pole, right now he's basically cold calling the people who did not reply to that info. he's expected to get appointments from these people. in a few months he'll get to call the people who actually replied.
he's expected to make a certain number of appointments. make those appointments and you go along with an experienced rep to their appointments too. it's almost funny to me what happens if you don't meet that number of appointments, though. one day charlie had three instead of four appointments he was expected to get, and his appointments were just given to the experienced rep in his place. instead, they had charlie drive around knocking on doors of people who are on the no-call list. so instead of shadowing the experienced rep, seeing the process, and how the whole next step of the job works, he got doors slammed in his face.
some of the other new people are getting by using their friends for life insurance appointments. even if they're not planning on buying anything.
well. must be nice to have so many friends.
to top things off, he only has one day off a week during this training period. sunday. and i work sundays. so the only time we ever see each other, he's half asleep from working long ass days, six days in a row.
he hasn't worked there a month and he texted me today saying he can't do this. unfortunately i'm terrible at being supportive. he's frustrated and doesn't want to alienate the people he loves by trying to sell them shit. life insurance is important. and it's inexpensive. you definitely want to buy life insurance to help your family in a terrible time, but no one really wants to be sold life insurance. i don't know what to tell him. where am i supposed to get the skills to help him hang in there until there's a poor group of souls lower on the ladder than he is?
for a company that's been around for 130 years, they sure do make their agents start out in a shady way... i guess it's still part of the weeding out process. medicare supplement information gets sent to people about to turn 65. because he's at the bottom of the totem pole, right now he's basically cold calling the people who did not reply to that info. he's expected to get appointments from these people. in a few months he'll get to call the people who actually replied.
he's expected to make a certain number of appointments. make those appointments and you go along with an experienced rep to their appointments too. it's almost funny to me what happens if you don't meet that number of appointments, though. one day charlie had three instead of four appointments he was expected to get, and his appointments were just given to the experienced rep in his place. instead, they had charlie drive around knocking on doors of people who are on the no-call list. so instead of shadowing the experienced rep, seeing the process, and how the whole next step of the job works, he got doors slammed in his face.
some of the other new people are getting by using their friends for life insurance appointments. even if they're not planning on buying anything.
well. must be nice to have so many friends.
to top things off, he only has one day off a week during this training period. sunday. and i work sundays. so the only time we ever see each other, he's half asleep from working long ass days, six days in a row.
he hasn't worked there a month and he texted me today saying he can't do this. unfortunately i'm terrible at being supportive. he's frustrated and doesn't want to alienate the people he loves by trying to sell them shit. life insurance is important. and it's inexpensive. you definitely want to buy life insurance to help your family in a terrible time, but no one really wants to be sold life insurance. i don't know what to tell him. where am i supposed to get the skills to help him hang in there until there's a poor group of souls lower on the ladder than he is?