Well, the surprises definitely aren’t stopping. Today, Friday, a regular weekday, now ranks as the second-highest revenue generating day since my start last week. This was triggered by the sale of the most expensive item on my floor — a 16.1″ screen, 2.6GHz Vaio notebook by Sony. Movement over in the video [...]
Whoa — today’s sales on a regular weekday topped last Saturday’s sales; if things keep going at this pace, I’ll have to start asking for commission :) I had two returnees from yesterday who made substantial purchases, so perhaps that makes up for yesterday’s slow movement. One mother and son team were rather [...]
Today was definitely a challenge — the weather was bleak, with temperamental rain mixed with warm stale air; not exactly encouraging customers to spend their hard-earned cash. Most of the day was spent explaining product details to first-timers in Japan, only to have them say they would have to consult with their “resident technician” [...]
Funny how the mind batches up numbers; my feeling during the day was that I was making a number of small sales — at least compared to Saturday. So when my shift ended, I figured I came close, if not topped, the previous day. Surprisingly I sold a good 8% more today. [...]
Check out my sales! Weekends are definitely the best, and today was definitely amusing. I’ve already lost track of the concept of a “week”, as I’ll be working full shifts on weekends. My cycle will be work two days, rest, work three days, rest, wash, rinse, repeat. I have already begun to [...]
So I managed to whip up a simple Python script that will keep everyone abreast of my latest sales for the day. Yesterday was my first day on the floor, with an orientation in the morning. Basically we were shown some graphs on current sales figures (down mostly because of the SARS scare), [...]
So some of you already know that new full-time employees of Sony Japan must participate in what’s called 販売 修, or “hanbai kenshu”, which translates to “sales training”. New employees must undergo this training usually within 2-3 years of joining, and is essentially required before moving up in the ranks. Now it’s my [...]
Had my last dinner for a while at Sony’s Building 5 cafeteria. They try so hard there, and the service people are all so very nice, but the food…the food still has a lot to ask for. It’s sad that my alma maters served tastier food than this. What’s even more strange [...]
Some interesting tidbits of news over at Terrie.com with regard to the Japanese business environment of late. Here’s a particularly interesting quote:
… it seems that foreign multinational firms in Tokyo are once again appointing foreign CEOs for their local operations — after a long spell where the common wisdom was that the local branch [...]
Can’t say I fully condone any of this behavior, but Rob Pongi definitely puts an interesting spin on Japanese culture. Only problem is, through my experiences I don’t think the Japanese generally understand the concept of the “last laugh”, but rather, just “the laugh”. In other words, group mentality has created a culture [...]
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