DEALER SUPPORT NOVEMBER 2021

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SALES SUCCESS

QAUTEHSETRI OP.N CTLI IMP E F

Bringing hope, peace and unity to the good brethren of business supplies The good Father debates whether anyone is really telling the truth about their preferred working environment

I

don’t believe

numbing traffic standstills play

I was accosted last week because one

anyone anymore

havoc with their mental wellbeing,

of our customers didn’t have a suitable

when they say they

but they don’t want to admit it.

bush to hide behind and they thought

would rather be in the office than

Let’s face it, if we say we don’t like

I was checking what time they were

being in the office it’s an obvious slight

coming in to work. That cost me a

working from home. However, I also

towards the people there. Everyone

fortune in free tins of Quality Street!

don’t believe anyone when they say

wants to stay polite but, at the same

Another problem with being

they would rather be working from

time, they don’t want to fall straight

an office supplies dealer during this

home than the office - I don’t think

back into an office routine where they

pandemic is that we’ve spent so much

anyone knows themselves!

might get stuck there forever again.

time preaching to customers about

Being in the office means that we

Therein lies the problem for office

the benefits of buying lots of PPE

see our colleagues again, and get into

products dealers. People aren’t being

equipment that we dare not be seen in

more of a routine - but do we really

honest. Every time you are told that

public without being fully suited-and-

want to see our colleagues again and

an office is about to be fully-staffed

booted with visors, gloves and hand gel.

get into more of a routine? Some

you find that it isn’t. There have been a

people have tried going back to the

series of false alarms for us with our top

own backs - but, to look on the bright

office and have quickly remembered

companies - I’ve even taken to doing

side a bit, it should mean that office

that the people they work with are a

headcounts in the morning, hiding

supplies dealers should be the healthiest

pain in the backside, and the mind-

behind bushes with a number clicker.

bunch of people out there!

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