{"id":13593,"date":"2010-04-27T22:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:37","slug":"kim-gus-the-ultimate-in-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13593","title":{"rendered":"Kim, Gus &#8211; The Ultimate in Quality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mailto:gkim3@saic.edu\">E-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ultimate1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ultimate1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ultimate1.jpg\" alt=\"ultimate1\" width=\"324\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ultimate in Quality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who out there has called in for one of those high paying jobs you see  in the paper?\u00c2\u00a0 You know, &#8220;Make $20 an hour!\u00c2\u00a0 Call now!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 They never  seem to tell you what they&#8217;re all about until you walk in the door,  assuming you make it that far.\u00c2\u00a0 Gus was given an ultimatum one year (no  idea when this comic was made, there&#8217;s nothing resembling a date  anywhere on it) by his father: he has to get a job over the summer.\u00c2\u00a0 Not  wanting to do retail, he decides to give a company he&#8217;s never heard of a  try.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that they sell knives and other household goods door  to door, and the phrase &#8220;hard sell&#8221; is a bit of an understatement.\u00c2\u00a0  Still, Gus gives it a solid try, getting in touch with people he hasn&#8217;t  talked to in years, trying desperately to make a go of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually  he is defeated by the relentness awfulness that is door to door selling,  but at least seems to make peace with the whole thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The remarkable  thing about this comic is how straight he portrays everything about this  process.\u00c2\u00a0 He attends one of those fundamentally absurd meetings  designed to hype up salesmen, chock full of whatever buzz words are  popular that month, and really seems to take the whole thing at face  value.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe I&#8217;m just too cynical for being unable to take my  various meetings seriously over the years?\u00c2\u00a0 Either way this is a solid  mini, telling a cautionary tale for those of you who might be tempted to  try this while still providing a whole pile of practical information.\u00c2\u00a0  Oh, and the art looked pretty damned good too.\u00c2\u00a0 No idea why he doesn&#8217;t  have a website though, I thought that was mandatory these days&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ultimate2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ultimate2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ultimate2.jpg\" alt=\"ultimate2\" width=\"437\" height=\"573\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mail The Ultimate in Quality Who out there has called in for one of those high paying jobs you see in the paper?\u00c2\u00a0 You know, &#8220;Make $20 an hour!\u00c2\u00a0 Call now!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 They never seem to tell you what they&#8217;re all about until you walk in the door, assuming you make it that far.\u00c2\u00a0 Gus was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3753,1434],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-gus-kim","tag-the-ultimate-in-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13596,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions\/13596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}