Canadian wines

[Botafogo]

We have just the opposite problem here, way TOO many layers of overpayed reps sucking up all of your money:

On a recent call in on a talk radio show about how you liked your job the Mondavie rep for Beverly Hills and West Hollywood (one of over 100 such people in the state) called in, identified himself and said "I love my job, all I do is eat in nice restaurants and give away wine on the company's dime". He went on to say his principle responsibility is to ride herd on the actual salesmen of his distributor to make sure they sold his wine instead of what the customers asked for...

I know another guy whose job (at over $70K a year and an unlimited sample budget) is to make sure that if you win a major sporting event you waste a case of HIS industrial Champagne and not the competing ones by spraying it all over the place.

Roberto

[This message has been edited by Botafogo (edited 08-19-2002).]