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Friday, February 09, 2007

Have a heart.....or buy one from me.

So its pretty sad when my shinning moment has do do with my job at Boston Pizza, but I think the reason I am especially proud of my latest accomplishment is because I have never considered myself to be able to sell anything - not that I want to.

So from Feb 1st to Valentine's Day, all Boston pizzas sell little paper hearts for $1, you may be familiar with them or noticed each establishment plastered with them during Feburary ...and of course, all proceeds go to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Anyway, all servers at our location are divided into 5 teams, each competing to sell the most hearts for prizes.

Since the 1st, I had only worked one shift previous to Wed night (the night I'll be reffering to) and I bartended that shift so I was to busy and chose not to sell any hearts. So when I got to work on Wednesday, the captain of the team I am on Nancy was bugging me about being pretty much the only person to not sell any hearts. For good reason, she joked that I wasn't pulling my weight on the team. So I assured her I would do my part and sell a bunch. Of course I didn't know that that night I was going to sell 662 hearts!!!

Within being on shift for 5 minutes I had already sold 50 hearts, but I really didnt have to try cause one of our regulars Shane had already bought 160 from Monkia on my team and he said that he wanted to help us win.

Anyway, later on that night I had two guys come in and had been drinking for a while. They asked what the deal with the hearts was, and I told them. They told me they wanted to help me win, but would buy some hearts later on. Subsequently, two other guys (Dan and Trevor) were in playing pool and told me that they would match whatever the other guys were going to buy. When I went back to talk to the two guys from P.R. Oil, they told me that they wanted to buy 300 hearts from me. The boss gave us a goal to reach, if we sold 300 hearts we'd get a paid day off...and these guys wanted to make sure I'd get that paid day off. When I told Dan and Trevor that the other guys were going to buy 300 they were hesitant to spend $300 on hearts (naturally) but honored the agreement (although I wouldn't have held them to it). He he, so right there I managed to sell 600 hearts, quite effortlessly!

All in all, over the two week period I managed to sell 742 hearts and most importantly raised $742 for the Heart and Stoke Foundation. As a result, our team won for most hearts sold, I got a paid day off, and get a prize for selling the most hearts.

I just never have been good at, or interested in selling anything, and I realize that selling things for a good cause is easier but I still didn't think I'd sell that much...especially without really having to do more than ask nicely.








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