9: AGC and other stories

Now you would think that joining AGC was a great move.

Originally, I thought it was.

 No weekend work.

 About the same sort of pay they said, and more freedom, how wrong it was.

 When I worked in an office, I was an accounting type person. I hated it.

 When I went to Bill Patterson Motors, I became this raging sales type person.

 At AGC they wanted you to do sales and accounting type duties, so they gave you the title DSM (District sales manager) but most of your day was spent doing numbers.

 Financial figures.

 Percentages.

 And like some religious order, you had to read a book called the SPI which is about the size of a telephone book.

 The SPI (the specific practises and instructions) was the company bible and they tested you on it regularly. 

 The branch accountant would say “have you done your SPI training?”

 Do you want to talk about it.

 Then they would send you endless amounts of meaningless internal memos.

 They would arrive via the company’s own “branch courier service”.

 Memos came in three parts, and you had to answer them ASAP and of course keep a copy and file in special folders.

 Carbonised paper. Reams of it. Relentlessly arriving day after day.

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