My face is in the paper!

sort of...

I have a new job now. The interview a couple weeks ago was really not an interview, it was more a chance to give me the paperwork. Phil, my new manager, walked in and said, "Hi, we're very interested in having you, if you're interesting in joining us." So, since I hadn't had any other offers -- Jack in the Box never even called me back -- I decided to join the cars sales team at Karl Tyler Motors.

I know nothing about cars, especially nothing about trucks. Which is a shame, because that's sort of something we do best here at Karl Tyler Motors. But they said that was ok, because I know how to be nice to people and I can learn cars.

Back to the story about me being in the newspaper -- it's not that big a deal. They have an ad running in the local edition of Auto Finder and there are pictures of all the Sales Consultants (that's technically my job title) across the bottom.

Today I hope to sell a used Ford Taurus SES and take a lady on a test drive of a 3/4 ton crew cab Chevy Silverado Duramax Diesel 2500HD pickup (with gooseneck trailering). Both customers stopped by yesterday and the Taurus lady took the car home overnight to show her husband. He's harvesting and can't take the time to come in. (Great! Two things I don't know, cars and farming! But I don't think I annoyed her and she left pretty excited about the car, so I'm hopeful.) The lady with the truck wants to test drive it pulling her horse trailer. She was convinced that we wouldn't let her, BUT, we are an amazingly nice, people-centered dealership and we are going to let her as soon as we can plan a time.

When I'm not busy talking to customers -- about 95% of the time -- I still haven't really figured out what a cars salesman is supposed to do. Mostly I sit around and eat Twizzlers. And read owners manuals in the hope that someday I will need to know how to convert the Avalanche from truck to SUV and back again. It's really not that hard.