Car Salesman Humiliates Lazy Manager by Simply Following His Orders

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    Font - A few years ago I worked at an exotic car dealership, we were the largest in the world for our brand (which will remain nameless for this post) and the exotic car side was run by one of the owners, a manager we'll call Jim, and 2 others my age who did most of the grunt work with me. We sold cars in all 50 US states and would ship them wherever they needed to go. We all worked on every deal and were paid off the profit of the dealership, not individual sales.
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    Font - Jim was a major kiss ass to the owner who oversaw our department, he wasn't good at his job but he was good at playing the game needed to stay on the owners good side. He treated myself and the other younger guys like shit and tried to do as little work as he possibly could. He was openly racist, openly sexist, and knew nothing about the cars we sold or their main competition.
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    Font - Jim's main responsibility was to send out all paperwork to customers, and make sure everything was set so we could release the car. A big part of this was making sure the car was registered before shipping it out if they financed through the manufacturers financial arm (most did for a slight discount). This often meant sending all registration paperwork to the customer to go register it locally, Jim was the only one allowed to do this as our manager had inherent distrust for the younger g
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    Font - Well when the owner wasn't there, Jim would often do nothing all day and then send some paperwork right before the end of the day, on the day things came to a head he spent the morning shopping for pellet smokers and a cruise for his family to go on, and kept interrupting me to show me the different options he was looking at. Meanwhile I was handling 2 in person deliveries and dealing with all showroom traffic.
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    Font - Long story short, the end of his day rolls around and he didn't get the paperwork sent out, so he told me to do it, I explained that the owner made it clear he's the only one allowed to send the paperwork out for a registration but he said "just send the fucking paperwork out" so that's exactly what I did.
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    Font - The title needs to be filled out with the info for the financing company or they'll have no claim to that car and the registration will show no lien. So I sent the blank title out to the customer, knowing that meant they could just sign it and register like they didn't have a loan.
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    Font - The customer noticed and asked my manager why he left the lien holder off the title, but CC'd our whole department. The owner saw this and freaked out, shouting at my manager saying "how could you fuck this up, it's so simple" which lead to my manager having to admit he interrupted my actual work to make me send it out while not clarifying that he hadn't even filled out the title yet and that I had to do that. They sent an overnight envelope to the customer to send it back to us, then we
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    Rectangle - StuBidasol 1d That dude basically gave away an exotic car and still had a job?! Am I understanding that right? ↑ ... 422
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    Font - Piddy3825 1d He got an earful and the owner never let him live it down... And that was it? No other consequences? Kinda disappointing after reading the whole story. 14 201 ...
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    Font - PatchworkRaccoon314 21h Some owners are not inherently bad people, but they feel lonely at the top when all they have is work and money. So they get an upper manager who serves absolutely no purpose other than to be their friend, their confidant, someone to and tell them what a great and smart and savvy rich owner they are. This can't be one of the people like OP who do the actual work on the ground floor, because the most important part is the owner needs to feel like this manager is a p
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    Font - Dependent_Price_1306 11h "I quit and moved into software sales (network monitoring, code level app security monitoring) and I'll never work in a dealership again." What is the difference between a car salesman & a computer salesman? The car salesman knows when he is lying to you! ↑ Vote
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    Font - ● FenixBg2 9h "Jim was the only one to do it as the owner had inherent distrust of the younger guys" *Jim gives it to one of the younger guys gets effed up Sorry, but I had to point this out :D i know, i know, just the irony... ... * Vote

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