Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for December 11, 2016

Get a smart phone.

For those who have been picking on the sales clerks in the strip this week, remember that they have to earn their commissions somehow, and they’ve been specifically trained to upsell at every opportunity. That’s why they’re so aggressive with Cathy and her mother, and why Cathy’s $10.00 limit has them so frustrated. Been there, done that!

I’ve been on both sides myself. I sucked at sales. I Was a dog training instructor at a popular chain petstore. A store that makes a lot of money spend it on commercials to advertise training? No, that’s silly. Just have the trainers bug every customer in the store to sell classes. Sometimes there would be hardly anyone in the store or regular customers that already done the classes or aren’t interested. We would get blamed from cooperate that we’re “not trying hard enough”. Better yet, Christmas time, people are not thinking about training, but trying to afford hristmas presents. Sales were always down around Christmas. Again, we “weren’t trying”. Then, to add onto the poor customers fun, after. Sing bugged about training classes, (if you don’t have a dog, buy one for someone else!), other employees tried to get you to buy moss balls for your fish tank, bowl, pond, decoration, anything! “Also, would try to get you to buy a puppy stater kit. What? Older dog? You still have coupons in there you can use! Don’t have a dog? You know someone who does!” Oh, you made it I the register finally? "Hey, do you want to buy a stuffed animal to support our pet charity? No? Okay, would you like to donate? Oh, by the way, has anyone told you about those cool moss balls? What about the puppy starter kit or a dog training class? ". Finally time to pay, put your card through. First question that pops up “Would you like to donate to our charity?”. Sigh…. it does really suck being a chromed and dealing with all of that. I also agree with legaleagle as well. For 98% of the people pushing sales or begging you to donate, it’s not fun for them either. They’re stuck at this job for one reason or another at the moment. Trust me, they’re praying or working for a way out of it. It makes them sick to their stomach every time they have to do it. The

I’m sorry for my grammar mistakes. When I get really into something, I drone on and just send it. Need to reread it first.

Photography used to be so simple. But now …

For the record, at first I thought the next-to-last panel said underwear picture. That made me do a double-take, until I re-read.

HI, MOM. Happy Sunday, “Cathy” Clan.

rgcviper, hendelca, lindz.coop, and QuietStorm27:

Thank you so much for the kind wedding anniversary congratu- 

lations yesterday! Hard to believe it’s been 28 years now when it still feels like we got married only yesterday. Whoever came up with the old saying: “Time flies when you’re having fun” wasn’t kidding because that’s exactly what it’s done: it’s just flown by! I’m greatly looking forward to spending many more happy years together with my sweet, handsome hubby! ♥

P.S.: Glad you all enjoyed the Bliss comic too. When I saw our favorite little nut-job in it, I simply couldn’t resist telling everyone here about it! :-D

Regarding the comic, I do love taking pictures, so I don’t agree with Cathy’s mom. But I don’t take pictures of people who don’t want their pictures taken, and I almost never take selfies. Mostly pictures of my family and places we go, and I usually don’t share them with many people.

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Hello Cathy clan! Happy Sunday! Happy (belated) anniversary, GretchensMom & GretchensDad!! You seem like you have a sweet marriage and I wish you many more happy years together!!

quanyindove, I’m sorry you had to go through all of that! That sounds like a terrible job! I know that companies need to be somewhat assertive with increasing sales, but it should never be like that. I think that it’s possible to be creative with increasing your business without being abusive.