what happened to taking pride in your work

Calicajun wrote:
Workers have become lazy and don't care, even the sales staff has become lazy. We just spent three days at the LA RV show looking at new units. Now when I did sales, it was part of my job to me to clean up/fix up everything for sale. So that the customer saw was the best product for sell.

Now you walk into a RV with sawdust in almost every cabinet, loose screws and all the say is "well it has to be cleaned up the workers aren't that good". You want to sell a 50 to 70 thousand dollar unit and you can't even pick up a dust pan. Sure I trust your word and service department.

Explains why we have been looking for the last year for a new RV.

LA RV show - Pomona, CA - - "Sales Staff"

A few years ago, I was looking at 5th wheels at the Pomona RV show.
At one dealer's display of several units, I saw the brochures stacked in a storage compt of one of the display units.

Didn't want to help myself, so asked a salesman a few feet away if I could have a brochure.
He replied, "I don't know where they are - this is my first day!"
I thought he meant his first day at the show, and said something to
that effect. No - it was his first day *on the job*!

Nice guy - he thanked me when I showed him the brochures (location).

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Same day, same show.
While "walking" the show, I ran into a friend I had known for years.
Although he had a really nice Alpenlite, his wife wanted a Motor Home, so he had made an *appointment* to test drive a high-dollar diesel pusher at the show. (He could afford it)

When I ran into him he was chatting with the dealership *owner*, who introduced himself.

Saw him a few weeks later, and asked how his test drive went.

He said the dealership owner kept putting him off - telling him one of the salesman would - "get around to the test drive soon".

So he was killing time looking thru the MHs.
While he was in the back (bedroom) of one of the MHs, he overheard this exchange between two salesmen outside the front of the MH:

Salesman #1: "Who's that guy in the unit?"
Salesman #2: "Oh, just some tire-kicker".

That was when he knew waiting was done, as they didn't need/want his business.

He bought a slightly used Foretravel (cash) from a private party.

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