Citadel Pics in Viewmont Mall

[Ramone]

When you enter the Viewmont Mall near the food court, you have got to check out the Citadel DJ glamour shots at the Jim Nichols Kiosk. It's kind of like a train wreck, you can't not look.

 

[yonkstur]

> When you enter the Viewmont Mall near the food court, you
> have got to check out the Citadel DJ glamour shots at the
> Jim Nichols Kiosk. It's kind of like a train wreck, you
> can't not look.

At least they have them now. When I was selling for them
they were so cheap we almost began taking polaroids of the
talent. For you yung uns out there, this was pre digital.
You took the camera, shot your subject, then like magic
the film developed in front of your eyes. Kind of like
Fizzies. For you yung uns out there, Fizzies was this tablet
you put in water and it fizzed and you got a sugary drink
of lime, cherry or root beer by adding water from the tap.
For you yung uns out there tap water came out of the sink
from a...........................................
yonkstur
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[JAFO]

> > When you enter the Viewmont Mall near the food court, you
> > have got to check out the Citadel DJ glamour shots at the
> > Jim Nichols Kiosk. It's kind of like a train wreck, you
> > can't not look.

Here's the question of the day----is this like the Citadel websites where they still have pictures of people who don't work there anymore???????

 

[RK]

> Here's the question of the day----is this like the Citadel
> websites where they still have pictures of people who don't
> work there anymore???????

Or

The WARM 590 website that has "nothing" to do with WARM 590. Unless your on the Citadel Website haha!

 

[yonkstur]

> >
> Here's the question of the day----is this like the Citadel
> websites where they still have pictures of people who don't
> work there anymore???????

I don't know. Haven't seen the Mall display. But a few
years back, there was a website called The Citadel Death
Star and on it were personal stories of people who worked
for the company and were let go. I haven't logged on to it
lately so I don't know if it's still there or not. When I
was a Senior Account rep there, we were losing so many sales
people that we started to keep count. I started in Aug of 98
and noticed that in my first two weeks, eight sales reps left.
So I began to keep a number log on my desk of the reps who
left. In the corner near the pictures of my sports teams and
women was a big number in bold print. When we hit 40, a few
of us decided to give "parting gifts". So when a person we
were fond of left or got fired, we'd go to Kevin's up in
Throop and got them a Citadel button down blue shirt with the
logo on it and a coresponding number. When I got fired in
April of 2000, I was number 68 which I have on my shirt. I
was fired on a Thursday. It was supposed to be a Monday but
I took the day off for my wedding anniversary. So they fired
someone else. On Tuesday, they were set to fire me but I had
a root canal and they fired another guy. On Wednesday, they
couldn't find me because I was in Tunkhannock doing cold calls
and by the time I returned, the managers were gone but did
fire somebody in my place. Finally on Thursday they got me.
You know it's happening because all the other managers know.
One manager in particular who was one of the biggest idiots
you ever wanted to meet (and later wound up at Cable where he
annoyed his GSM there by sitting in the conference room telling
stories about Citadel all the time) avoided eye contact with me
that day. Another ducked into a stall when I entered the men's
room while another just looked away. You know when you're
getting canned. When they did my exit interview with the GSM
and the HR rep, I stretched it out for an hour asking questions
like "can you please reintepret your language on that last
statement?" or "I really don't understand that particular line
of thinking regarding my performance. Can you elaborate?" Anyway,
I got my denim shirt with the big red 68 on it. In 18 months, I
was the 68th sales rep to leave. We had thoughts of starting a
Citadel Reps Alumni Association, doing community service stuff
like that but then figured we'd be giving them way too much credit
so that idea died.
Yonkstur
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