I have a big no soliciting sign on my door, when sales people knock anyway I make it a point to waste as much of their time as I can and not buy anything.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    For your example, I think you’ve got things wrong. Probably a lot of those people are just being paid to work, not per sale. You’re wasting the company’s time, but probably not the employee’s. You’re also wasting your own time.

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      10 hours ago

      most of the solicitors I get are definitely on a commission program

      that said, my time is too important to me to bother wasting theirs.

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      14 hours ago

      I could imagine they get paid like a car salesman, where they have a base salary and a bonus salary based on how much they sell, as an incentive to sell more. In that case OP would have wasted the employees time to a a degree.