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I used to design financial products. The New York sales person would usually say "My customer will not buy that piece of s&#t." The Tokyo salesman would say. "I
by T_S_ 15y ago
I used to design financial products. The New York sales person would usually say "My customer will not buy that piece of s&#t." The Tokyo salesman would say. "I will show it to my customer." Then radio silence for a week. Or at worst, "Hmm... Very difficult". More silence.
After a while I began to appreciate the New York sales people. They saved me time.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI guess Japan is the extreme version of a Guesser culture.
- msbarnett 15y agoIt's not that they were slower or trying to waste your time with long "radio silences", it's that they didn't realize that you didn't realize that "Hmmm...Very difficult" was an upfront, flat-out, "fuck no" in their culture.