I'm the sales executive. “As a business journalist, you would know, right?" Of course, I don't dabble in stocks myself, nor am I in the business of recommending them.
But that doesn't stop every relative, friend, or foe from asking the same question. For long, I struggled with how to politely decline to answer this question.
Now, I simply quip: read Mint. Reading Mint this week also solved my query of apathetic sales executives: Manish Joshi, a contributor to our Mark to Market section, wrote about the passenger vehicle segment.
Why put in an effort, when you're going to sell 50,000 units a year any way? Admittedly, I'm being harsh on these people. Perhaps, they were just having and off day.
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