A Night Out With Sales

First, if you look below at the post about the Armin Van Buuren concert you see I had quite a fun night out there. Well what made it even more fun was that the sales department at work all went out for dinner. The GM likes me so I was about the only one who didn't mid that he came along.

Either way good times were had by all. I have one coworker who likes to drink but lights up like the Chief (cheers if you get the reference) but also gets really funny and not just just lobster red. Thing is I am the only one in the office who can really drink, and my coworkers know it. The guy who lights up like a stop light and I were talking and being modest like the situation required I said, "Oh I can't drink." His response was, "You can't not drink," as he filled my two glasses with beer. About that, the GM got me two glasses since one was apparently not enough for me. Hence, I double fisted and still drank the rest of sales under the table.

A word about drinking at a restaurant in Taiwan. They have what are called beer girls. Basically, they are scantily glad waitress in beer clothing (white skirt, boots, and top with Corona logos, for example) that guys can chat with while the girls try to get them to order more beers.. Well the GM called one over and had her bring lots of beers, as he joked I was "He's foreigner, so he can't drink too much beer. So give him two glasses!"

Having me there was a constant source of entertainment for my coworkers. There were not only beer girls but girls selling some other product I had never heard of and had no idea what it was (dried oyster maybe). But that didn't matter to my coworkers. They would keep calling the girls over so I could talk to them. Which really meant they would talk to the girls about me or in the case of one coworker he was able to get the girl to give me her MSN even though I told him I have a ladyfriend.

Although I did feel sorry for the girl. When my coworkers called her over they said, "Hey, here is the GM he would love to buy such and such product, he has lots of money!" The GM got embarrassed and promptly got up to go the bathroom. Then they said, "Hey, look here is the sales manager he would love to buy the product too!" When that failed they said, "Look here's a foreigner see if he wants to buy."

All in all, it was a very good night.