girls can't sell tvs.

I was working for the past three days. Retail. Mind numbingly boring. I'll spare you the real highlight of my working week. But here's a revelation I had yesterday.

Girls can't sell TVs.

Here's the dilemma:

The managers and everyone are happy to have girls work in the TV Hifi department. Makes them look good. Equal opportunity, shutting up feminists, all that shit.

So I've spent the past six months of my life selling all sorts of goods that encompass the particular however-many square metres that make up our department. The money's good. We get bonuses for selling stuff, signing people up for credit cards with exorbitant interest rates, selling extended warranties... that kind of thing.

I can do all that. Customers don't mind girls coming up to them, asking them if they need any assistance.

Except when it comes to TVs. The amount of times that I've approached a customer and they've said, 'I'm just looking', then not five minutes later, one of the guys approach them and then suddenly they want to get all of the information possible about televisions. The guy makes the big sale, tacks on a credit card (because of a 10% off voucher, you see), add in extended warranty and you've got yourself a nice little bonus there.

I kid you not. I did a wee little experiment yesterday. I teamed up with one of the guys, made sure he was taking note of when I was approaching customers interested in TVs. I didn't sell a single TV and some of the customers that I was approaching were later talking to male sales assistants.

So my conclusion comes in the form of a simple maths equation.

(sales assistant - penis) + boobies = no sale

however

(sales assistant + penis) - boobies (dependant on fat content) = massive sale

It appears to me that sexism in the electrical consumer market isn't dead.