I Don't Get It

[QueenofSmirks]

Originally Posted by LeftWriteFemme

Turtle,

... my friend was suggesting I watch Glenn Gary Glenn Ross ....

For more than a decade, coworkers (sales guys) have suggested I watch Glenn Gary Glenn Ross. I finally bit the bullet and watched it a couple of weeks ago. There was some funny sentimentality to the big speech by Alec Baldwin in the beginning, almost a (negative) nostalgia about how sales organizations used to run, and some still do. However, I couldn't get much past that part, because it reminded me of so much of what I hated about living in NYC. Miserable people living miserable lives and complaining about it nonstop. I lived it for real, and have no desire to watch it on DVD. So, I saw the big speech part, I snickered, remembering those times, and then I struggled through 10 more minutes and turned it off.

When I went back my office on Monday and told everyone I had watched it, the most enthusiastic of my coworkers said, "Well, what did you think??!!!", and I told him. After about 5 seconds he said, "You're right. There's no real reason to watch it except for the speech by Alec Baldwin."

I thought that was pretty funny actually, that here he had spent all this time trumping it up, telling me I HAD TO watch it, only to realize it actually wasn't that great after all. It probably goes to the point of the original poster here... sometimes, in fact a LOT of times, people jump on a bandwagon they aren't even aware of. I'm not that way at all, in fact, I avoid most things that are trendy and popular. I'm sort of anti-trendy, and it irks me when my anti things become trendy... like tattoos.