Wabbit rang the Toyota dealer in Charters Towers for a quote on a job, expected to cost around $1200. The woman who answered the ‘phone sounded clueless, but I’m used to useless front-desk staff and let it go. She said she’d get the price and ring me back. 40 minutes later…nothing. So I rang them. A widdle girl (she sounded about twelve years old and pretty thick) put me on hold, with advertisements blasting in my ear at very high volume. Widdle girl#2 came online and when I pointed out I’d been waiting forty minutes, said “sorry about that, but we only have two girls working today, I’m getting you a quote”.
This isn’t an isolated case, not by a long bloody shot. All the vast numbers of women in the workforce who are fronting companies doing technical work have achieved is to add a layer of incompetence, ignorance and expense to the businesses. I’ve known exceptions, but very, very few.
(I then rang a clutch specialist in Townsville and the ‘phone was answered by the bloke who runs the business. Five minutes later I had a firm price, an estimate of the time needed–and a way to get the car into the workshop by 7am on the due date.)
Same here,very few of them actually know their own job.I do deal with some good ones,but they are always inside sales reps and in businesses like fasteners,steel and bearing suppliers where incompetence isn’t tolerated.
I did notice that most of the car dealers here have eye candy running the show rooms and sales desks.They take the information and wag their tits at the customers and the guys in the back do all the work.Kinda like Hooters with cars for sale
“They take the information and wag their tits at the customers and the guys in the back do all the work.”