Chapter 141 Lie to yourself

Telemarketing, in layman’s terms, is telephone sales.

Most of this industry is bullshit
Of course, there are many things that telemarketers are not aware of, they just copy the sales script.

So if anyone has been cheated, or feels that they have been deceived, in most cases it has little to do with the telemarketer who communicated with you over the phone.

They are just the beginning of this game, and at most they can arouse your curious little heart.

Their day’s work is to make phone calls non-stop, using the same words and expressions to communicate with hard-to-find target customers from the vast phone lists.

For example, this mother and son can be said to have been sifted out by the great waves, or they can be said to be one in a hundred, or even one in a thousand.
The audience in the live broadcast room also woke up as if from a dream. They had all entered a montage-like lie, which invisibly reversed the order of things.

So much so that I didn’t even care that the whole incident was caused by this phone call.

After hearing what Song Wen said, I came back to the starting point:

“Damn it, I was so focused on the contract and the future that I forgot about the phone call! If you think about it backwards, everything makes sense, but if you think about it forwards, this phone call is a big problem!”

“Yes, at that time, the mother just brushed aside the phone invitation, so I focused on the subsequent interviews, mainly because the latter things were more attractive! It turned out that I missed the point!”

“It seems that after I had a child, I also received various sales calls, but most of them were about extracurricular classes and activities. I always wondered how they knew my phone number and even my child’s name.”

“That’s what Brother Song said. Your phone information can be obtained or purchased in many places! It may start from an early childhood education class you signed up for your child, or it may start from a small gift you received from a salesperson in a shopping mall. Your information can no longer be retained!”

“If that’s the case, then the movie thing seems to have suddenly changed its meaning. It’s not as formal and high-end as we thought before! It’s just that everyone has been fooled by their rhetoric and has forgotten the starting point!”

“Yes, the truth is that this is just a sales call! Which formal system starts with a sales call? Usually they post an announcement or something to let those who are interested sign up themselves!”

Like the audience, the mother also suddenly realized what was going on after hearing this.

It was as if I suddenly jumped out of the circle I was trapped in. After jumping out, I looked again and truly saw that there was something wrong here.

A major cinema chain movie, recruiting for a major role, would actually recruit through a phone call? That’s too hasty! That’s too cheap!

Moreover, it is not on the same level as the formality mentioned later. If it is true, there are obviously many ways to recruit interviewers, which would be more formal and easier to build trust.

So. This is indeed a problem!

While my mother was thinking about it, the kind and honest cameraman spoke up:

“But even if there’s something wrong with this call, there will be no problem with them later.”

“Look, their interview location is right next to the TV station. Didn’t she also say that they made a big fuss about it? If it was fake, how dare they do it in such a big way? Even that big hotel wouldn’t allow it.”

“Maybe that phone call was just one of their ways of recruiting people. Maybe they just want more people to know about this.”

The cameraman is as self-sufficient as ever, and can always find a plausible excuse to deceive himself.
He focused on the venue. In his opinion, this hotel is a representative of formality and authority. After all, many celebrities stay here and many meetings are held here. And since it is an interview event, the hotel will definitely check your qualifications. If you can’t pass the review, will you be allowed to do it? The cameraman’s idea actually represents many people.

Including the mother.

Song Wen glanced at him. He was used to the cameraman’s persistence and was even too lazy to criticize him. One look spoke volumes.

“Can you trust this venue?”

“Just because this venue is next to a TV station, and because some celebrities stay there after filming their shows, this hotel has become prestigious?”

“Then you can open a pancake stand next to the TV station, and sell pancakes that are specially provided for the TV station, right? The same ones that the stars have. One is enough to make you feel full of energy, and two are enough to make you feel like you’re in heaven.”

Cameraman:.
“The hotel should also review their qualifications. If this movie is fake, what can they do?”

Hearing this, Song Wen said contemptuously: “Qualification sounds important, but is it really that important?”

“In many cases, the value of so-called qualifications is equivalent to two packs of good cigarettes or two bottles of good wine.”

“It’s even just like saying we’ll have dinner some other day.”

As soon as the words were spoken, there was an immediate response in the live broadcast room, because too many people had experienced this kind of thing!

“Brother Song is so clear-headed! Qualifications and qualifications, it sounds so high-end and rigorous, but in fact, in many cases, it is just a social condition! Different tones have different meanings!”

“Last year, our company also held an event and needed to rent a venue. I went to organize it at that time, and there were so many requirements that I couldn’t finish them after three days of running around. Later, my leader went and signed the contract in a few words! Later, I realized that what they really wanted was not what they told me!”

“Your approach is good. At least it’s quite subtle. I’ve done this before. The other party gave me directions directly and I thought it was a joke! But I didn’t expect that when I went back to the company and told my boss about it, he was so happy. It really opened my eyes for the first time. I realized for the first time that working in the workplace requires more than just professional skills.”

“Hahaha~ I actually overlooked this point. Yesterday I just rented my venue to my childhood friend’s company. Not to mention the qualification review, I didn’t even ask for money. It’s just like what Brother Song said. My childhood friend just said let’s have dinner together some other day. If you want me to speak from my own experience, sometimes procedures are really optional.”

“Looking at it this way, it really feels like every step is a trap! It’s like I’ve entered a trap set by others, and I can’t jump out. The further I go, the more I feel that everything is right! Am I too naive or is the other party too cunning?”

Looking at the cameraman’s stunned reaction, Song Wen shrugged.

“It’s such a simple thing, but you think too complicated.”

After that, he looked at the mother and said:

“And you, not only do you think too much, you also beautify them in your mind, because what you want is the truth you hope to get.”

“To put it bluntly, it’s a transition from self-consolation to self-deception.”

(End of this chapter)