Smash Notes
S1E3 - 'The Regional Sales Meeting'
This week, Belinda gets to grips with her UK wide sales team and a few after-work drinks at a hotel bar get a little out of control. One word - pomegranates...
Notes
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In the regional sales meeting chapter on My Dad Wrote a Porno, Belinda has no settled view of the four managers who report to her, only third-hand notes on their performance. About 20 salesmen report to those managers. She has pessimistic thoughts, fair or not, about how the whole sales organization is doing, but the book says sales can still surprise you if you speak to people in confidence. Tony's mantra is "Develop what we have," not a plan to cycle the force out. In her first three weeks, Belinda and Tony agree to keep any salesperson or manager who shows any sign of performance.
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Reading the regional sales meeting on My Dad Wrote a Porno, hosts Jamie Morton, James Cooper, and Alice Levine stop on Rocky Flintstone's line about surprising people in sales once you talk to them in confidence and get them to accept your way of doing things. They say he is not afraid to write a sentence without a clear meaning, and that he puts verbs in unconventional places. One of them asks whether English is Rocky's first language, and the group answers that he is Irish. They try the sentence in an Irish accent and still cannot make it parse.
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On My Dad Wrote a Porno, during the regional sales meeting chapter, James Cooper asks Jamie Morton whether Belinda feels like family because Jamie's dad, Rocky Flintstone, wrote her. Jamie says he would not call her part of the family, but he does feel a certain loyalty to her. James asks if she resembles anyone Jamie knows, including someone who might turn up at Christmas. Jamie says no. The hosts then go back to the chapter, where nine o'clock brings a call that two northern regional managers need a lift from Heathrow, and Belinda phones sales administrator Jim Thompson to rescue them.
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Belinda had it start at 10 AM. Salesmen, Patrick and Dave had each given an hourly presentation. She put a stop to the meeting around noon, but wants overview details later from each sales manager individually.
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Taking place in a pub after work, Belinda removes some articles of clothing in the ladies’ room, then dabbed some water on her chest. She went back to the drinking area to join her coworkers. Bella and Giselle had been spreading rumors about Belinda while she was away.
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They are describing a character’s breast— badly describing them, nonetheless. First to point out, pomegranates do not hang. Perhaps Rocky thought melons were too obvious to use?
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They didn't want to give off the impression of them being prostitutes. Soon, all the men left the bar, not caring about what the women had to offer.
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It's supposed to be Bella, but Rocky called her "Donna" on accident. Belinda stated the pun to the girls for making the “breast” of the evening out with her.
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There was lighter sexual content. This time, we got to know Belinda little better. According to Alice, this is the most boring chapter yet. James counters by pointing out how we can’t always have steamy chapters. We need a break in the book every now and then in order to invest in the characters.
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