Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:04 am
Back in the 80's I worked for a large international company. They had a system of bonus payment by reward of effort, they also upgraded your company car too. The manager's all had VW/Audi, I remember going from a basic Passat upgraded four times until I had the Audi whistles and bells thingy.
The sales team had a similar system but their cars were all Vauxhalls. My salesman was very good at selling but rubbish at driving. He had been involved in so many scrapes and bumps that they threatened to downgrade him to a Nova. He had the model between the Cavalier and the Senator, the name escapes me.
On the day he was involved in yet one more collision, he also brought in one of the most lucrative accounts ever. Confident that he would keep his car, (he had to report to head office, where he was told that he would be getting a new two litre turbo car,) he was just so excited.
He came back in tears, honestly, a grown man crying because he didn't like, or expect, to be given a two litre, turbo diesel, Maestro. He was also known as The Maestro after that. He hated that car so much that whenever they visited friends or family they did so in his wife's VW Golf. Oh the shame!
The sales team had a similar system but their cars were all Vauxhalls. My salesman was very good at selling but rubbish at driving. He had been involved in so many scrapes and bumps that they threatened to downgrade him to a Nova. He had the model between the Cavalier and the Senator, the name escapes me.
On the day he was involved in yet one more collision, he also brought in one of the most lucrative accounts ever. Confident that he would keep his car, (he had to report to head office, where he was told that he would be getting a new two litre turbo car,) he was just so excited.
He came back in tears, honestly, a grown man crying because he didn't like, or expect, to be given a two litre, turbo diesel, Maestro. He was also known as The Maestro after that. He hated that car so much that whenever they visited friends or family they did so in his wife's VW Golf. Oh the shame!
