I Was Cutting Corners And Lost My Job Today

tony is on the line in tampa question for Ken Coleman today hey Tony what's up hey Dave hey Ken are you doing good are you sir doing good just lost my job this morning I'm 24 years old going on 25 and I just lost my job and it was a six-figure income so you know a hard job to find what in the world happened and what were you doing so I've been in the car business my whole life kind of just got thrown into it the whole family you know everybody's in the car business for the same company I was selling bought the cars first place every single month and you know some of the cars that were selling they had you know bad CARFAX I'd work with a guy for five days straight and the CARFAX would be bad and I decided to leave the CARFAX you know out of the you know I didn't show the guy the CARFAX so I guess that could have been a lawsuit or something and they ended up firing me it was mercedes-benz so you know they're real strict with everything you leave the toilet seat open you might get clipped well first of all we're sorry this is not a fun day but I want at least encourage your heart for a moment you're gonna survive you've got to learn from this anytime something like this happens you don't want to move on from this you want to take as much personal responsibility as you need to and then figure out okay what do I learn from that not let that happen again and move forward so six figure income we've got to ask on the Dave Ramsey show where you at financially are you where are you at in the baby steps do you have any kind of emergency fund yeah I've been putting a little money away I know my jobs real strict and the security there's not too good I'm just by you know knowing where the managers are at mentally and that kind of thing they're just real strict with everything I've only worked there and I said six-figure income but I've only worked there this is my third month there and my first second and this month I'm all in first place with a perfect CSI which is you know your surveys that come back so my customers love me but I was thinking to the motion more than I was with my head so I know that's where I went wrong well Tony so were you at do you an emergency fund at all what is it how much um yeah I have about 15,000 dollars saved up do you have any debt yet they do how much my bills every month or right around two thousand a month yeah but how much debt do you need to pay off if you look at all the money you owe how much how much debt do I need to pay off on this are no debt to pay off I'm renting my apartment and my car is leased I know you hate that Dave but it is leased alright Dave I'll let you handle the money stuff in a second here's what you need to do Tony you really need to I think you ask yourself the question why did you do what you did which got you in a situation where there was a clear company policy and you violated it and they take that stuff serious and as a result you're out of a job so you really need to reflect on that we don't wanna beat up on you but that's important secondly do you love sales you're 24 do you like to sell yeah I love to sell in certain environments so there's certain places I've sold that that I didn't enjoy on the first real job that I did like was Mercedes the clientele the money of course and the cars I enjoyed selling the cars all right you're 24 where'd you go to what did you go to school for did you go to school and what was it for what was your major I started college and I was just gonna get a business management degree because I had no idea what I wanted to do so I was like just to go to school for something I ended up not going or I ended up stopping school after about two years you know once it started coming out of my pocket I just really you know didn't care about what they had to say I was more interested in making money and that kind of thing so for a couple years I was a professional poker player okay well Tony you're all over the place so I'm gonna give you a couple pieces of advice and this is something you're gonna need to do actively first things first is you've got a little bit of a cushion with that $15,000 you're single I'd get rid of the lease obviously Dave can this Dave can speak to that but I want you to sit down with three people you can make it five or seven I don't care but some people who really know you they care enough about you to tell you the honest truth they'll be blatantly brutally honest with you and I want you to ask the question of yourself and then let them answer it which is what is your greatest talent what do you do better than anything else and then what do you care about if you love selling but you want to sell something that lines up with your values I mean it matters to you then that's where you need to be heading but before you even make that big decision you need to get employed and you need to lick your wounds here and also learn some valuable lessons Dave Tony my son is 25 and this is what I would tell him if I heard this story from him number one you have a tremendous upside you have a gift with people and you have the ability to sell what sometimes comes with that is a BS artist and you've been biessing even on the phone here toilet seat up is way different than freaking not giving a CARFAX report you should have been fired you deserved it not because you're not a good salesman because you completely violated the thing here I'm a Mercedes customer you completely violated that you would have been fired if you were working for me and I would have cried because you're such a good salesman when I quit when I fired you and I would have cried for you because I wouldn't want to break your little heart but you man you're just completely stepped in it and you cannot allow your your gift with people to think that that entitles you to cut corners that's the poker thing that's cutting corners that's the going around the carfax thing that's cutting corners your gift with people doesn't give you the right to cut corners it demands that you go right through the middle and that integrity become your number-one goal posts that you check everything on from this day forward if you'll take that with your personal gift with people you're gonna make $200,000 a year for the rest of your life you're gonna be very wealthy you're gonna have a lot of healthy great customers because I can tell you this about you you like selling a quality product Mercedes a quality product and you like dealing with intelligent customers because most of what most of Mercedes customers are well-heeled they love that product because it's a quality product most of them are very successful themselves they're easy to sell to for that reason again I'm one of them but you got to take that other little piece of this and digests that part of it from today and make that your goal post so I'm gonna be the first one in your corner like Ken said put three people in your corner that loves you enough to tell you the truth you have a tremendous gifting young man you can be anything you want to be you could be the CEO of a major company with your ability to deal with people and your ability to sell but you can't you will never achieve that if you shortcut if you think you are the if you think you get to go around the side of something because of your verbal gymnastics Kim you can you and I both have that ability and so it's talking to both of us I've done the exact same crap when I was his age here's the deal Dave this is a road block or a stop sign that he created for himself and it's a gift at 24 to go wait a second this is a temptation for anybody who loves to sell you know this any others know how to use a word properly and there's afraid there's a thrill in getting the deal done yep and it'll cause us to be tempted to cut corners like you said Dave and end up getting ourselves in big trouble know why you love to sell and love what you are selling so you're not tempted to cut corners so if you get this lesson from this firing you'll look back when you're 34 and let stand for and you'll say this is the best day of my life if you take the lesson away that they were right they were not petty toilet seat up is petty you tried to match it up with Betty it was not petty it was deserved but you're a good man and you've got the ability to make big money and do the right thing with this gifting and you're gonna you're gonna be somebody dude you call me back and I'll help you I promise this is the Dave Ramsey show hey guys thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video click the subscribe button to get the latest content and check out these other great clips from the show [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 8min 35sec (515 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 28 2017