Q: Which is worse to deal with?

1) Bulimic sales managers on power trips with 3 hour commutes each way every day or.....

2) BiPolar Sales people that "forget" their medicine 3 times a day even though their lithium is only needed once a day.

3) Working with both at the same time.

The above statements are true.


That said, people call in ads selling some of the wierdest shit I really didn't care to think about. Or keep thinking about........

I take in an ad, typed out all Johnny from "The Shining" style stuffed in a small envelope in our outside mailbox. Also paid only half in cash what it normally costs to run an ad. OK. No biggie. Some old codger hasn't run and ad in 20 years and just forgot the new rates.

Then I read it and began to wonder. ...I'll type it in here.

Goat meat. large buck, not neutered. appx 150#. 3 yrs old. please call XXX-XXX-XXXX

OK what the fuck? Goat meat? Got sacrifice? 3 years old? Got smoked goat sacrifice meat? Teriyaki never sounded so yummy! Goatyaki? Who the hell are you dude?

After my initial confusion and realising we get all kinds here at the paper, I did my usual checking. On account? Placed ads in the past? what's the do/don't manual say about this? Is it ethical to sell goat meat without a USDA licence # on file? Call the customer to confirm that's really what they want in the ad?

I found jack shit in our databases. Except for ONE previous entry.

They SHE had an ad in 2 weeks ago for a.... 3 yr old male goat for sale. She returned my call later today quoting "my first ad didn't to diddly shit for me so I put the thing in again", and hung up, promising to bring in the unpaid part of her ad over the weekend, even though we're closed.

STOP......stop my shit right HERE. What? I put 2 and 2 together and now I got it.....lady you USED to have a 3 yr old male goat, not neutered, for sale and NOW you have GOAT MEAT for sale, that used to be a 3 yr old goat. You goddam freak. You KILLED it? And you're selling the meat in the classifieds? Why not eat it yourself you fucking witch? What? hubby doesn't look good in goat skin and horns playing a flute?

I'm not making this up. This lady actually disposed of a perfectly good (I assume too much) livestock, and wants to pimp off it's carcass in the newspaper. And all this coming the day after The Green River Killer admitted guilt for killing 48 people. I'm so glad I'm leaving this mess. People are nuts.

Aside from that previous entry I had to check with the Classifieds TuffGuy Guru that knows all this crap. Took 7 hours for him to call me back, but ahyhoo......I had to confirm wether it was ACTUALLY ok as per company policy to place the ad.

Well, apparently as long as it's just domestic livestock it's just fine to run an ad but Jethro can't sell off his venison if he shot it or hit it with a truck last week. Or anything else "wild" that gets blown away on weekends. No mention about dogs or cats, nor did I actually want an answer to that one.

However, it's just fine if Mary Mother of Satan kills her pet goat and sells the meat thru the newspaper. I wonder what else she sells? How to practice VooDoo in 9 easy steps?

People of Earth™ Some of you scare the shit out of me.

I'm done.......Assuming I can sleep tonight.