Friendly Fucking Companies (AKA the hypocrisy of pretense)
It never ceases to amaze me (well it did until I called one buyer who had the same “I’m too busy to return your calls” message for 3 straight weeks…but that is another story).
Not a day goes by where myself or my partner get told to “fuck off” in no uncertain terms by people we approach as business partners, be it retailers to buy and resell our product or someone we want to talk with in regards to joint marketing initiatives.
I’m not talking about people saying that they are not interested in our product or proposition in a timely manner. I don’t expect everyone to be into what we are selling.
What I do expect is the occasional return phone call or email saying “Thanks, but no thanks”. We even leave our email addresses on the voice mails, so they can send us a polite PFO (please fuck off) letter.
It seems that FOAD (Fuck off and die) is the more traditional route taken by people.
But what I typically get is some nasty response, after leaving messages for 4 weeks, along the lines of “Stop calling us already. We are obviously not interested!!!” I wonder if any CEO’s or senior managers would care if they knew their low level staff were treating people with such disdain and disrespect.
All that money spent on big consumer ad campaigns destroyed with a phone call.
Beyond the obvious, if “you would have taken 2 seconds to say so 4 weeks ago, I would have stopped calling”, these companies seem to think that I obviously live in some sort of isolation chamber on Mars and don’t know anyone who might actually shop at their stores.
We get these types of responses from both big and small companies. Virtual and brick and mortar
The majority of these companies put on these fucking smiling happy faces for their customers while treating their suppliers and potential suppliers like absolute shit. They dont return calls, they fuck them on listing fees, they short pay invoices whenever they feel like it. Bottom line, they show most of their vendors limited respect.
Guess what, suppliers are people too. People with money. And the further I go down this road, there are becoming fewer and fewer retailers I would actually shop. Which in away is great……more of my money stays with me.
But good work guys…….keep up with those shit eating grins………no one has a clue that its all an act…….no one at all 
