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12. Has anyone ever sent you hookers? Care to name which person/company would do such a thing? What did you do with them?
Problem in the past with sales rep’s (as well as companies) is that when you are being interviewed then hired, 9 times out of 10 one of the first questions is – how many webmasters or webmaster lists from a previous job can you bring to us? Second problem is in firing an employee is how many webmasters are they going to steal should they get a job with a competitor. This is why many companies do a strong forensic on a employee's computer when they go in order to figure out who they talked too and how bad the damage is.
We all know whoever has the hits has the power – and lists are gold. This is also true with sales rep’s and managers who are well networked. Companies sometimes only hire short term hoping to steal lists from as many rep’s as possible then after a few months let them go based on “performance”.
For 12 years now I have never once sold or offered up any list of previous employers to any new company. I specifically remember sexxxycontent’s conversation before I left when he said, “I know you have all our lists but I also know your character in that you would never allow them to fall into our competitors hands or use them in any way”. I was very impressed and taken back at the trust level but also his ability to know exactly who he was talking too. Yet over the years when I am being asked if I would consider working with a company I know immediately their reasonings when they requested lists as one of their first questions. Often the negotiations die when but I refused to surrender them.
I will not mention who sent hookers to my room – but while working for one employer I was being courted to work at another company. We were to meet in Vegas during Internext one year but before the scheduled meeting they insisted that I offer up any webmaster lists I had from previous employers which I had an ethical and moral problem doing. My first evening while in Vegas I got a knock on my hotel room and there standing in front of me were two, very beautiful ladies saying that they were mine for some fun times.
I realized then and there not only how valuable my connections were but also to what level some companies will go to get it. What the company didn’t realize was at the time I was married (before SheDevil), and that being married I would never cheat on my wife. I reached into my pocket and pulled out 400$ and had them split it between each one saying, “I know it’s not much, but take this down to the casino and enjoy – if it is at all possible – when you do speak to whoever sent you – tell them that I was the best fuck you ever had!!”
They laughed, and I closed the door a better man knowing that I never compromised my belief’s in that I could not be bought or sold by a piece of ass. In this case - two. If I was - then who would trust me again in the future? If I could be bought and sold like that, then who's to say that someone else wouldn't come around and get all your company secrets by sending me more women? My reputation and legacy would be lost.
Mind you –now that I think about this question – it happened around the time that people started thinking I was gay – wonder if this had anything to do with it?
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