Hey Everyone,
Angela Bowen here, the host of Together, We're Gonna Find Our Way: An Unofficial Silver Spoons Podcast.
Tonight I covered Silver Spoons S3E20: Hot Shot ,which aired on March 3, 1985
In this episode a pair of scalawags (I prefer the term swindlers, absolute garbage people these two guys) use Rick in their scam to sell faulty cameras.
This was a lesson episode for anyone who’s ever been scammed or swindled.
I definitely learned quite a few things during this episode.
1. Never trust a classified job that lists these words in their AD.
No Experience Necessary, All Ages Considered, Sales, Earnings Unlimited.
I would have so many questions, the first one being, Is this legal?
Granted if I have to ask this one. I should already know the answer. H 2 the NO!
What kind of sales?
What do you mean by all ages considered?
Earnings Unlimited (So, I basically work on commission and don’t earn until I sell.
Forget you. BYE
I’m sorry but if I walk into an interview and see food on the table especially plates and silverware, I’m gone.
Beyond unprofessional (like, what did I just walk in on, dinner, uh... no thank you.
2. Golden Rule- If something sounds to good to be true, it probably is.
I one time went into a job based on a similar description in a classified ad but it was for selling knives and found out I wouldn’t be getting paid till I started making sales.
Another time I forked over $100 to a job hunting company in the early 2000’s to use their computers to find job postings and go out on leads. Never got my non refundable money back either when I decided it was a terrible idea.
Stupid lessons learned when you’re 19.
Also in this episode I find out how old you have to be to donate plasma, how many 5 cent aluminum cans you'd need to get $150, ANSWER: 3,000 cans. GAH!
And this is before the automated self serve machines.
And I figure how much $150 from 1985 would be in 2019. It came out to $357 supposedly with an Inflation Calculator.
Plus more stuff to laugh along with me as I cover this kookie cray-cray episode.
Join me next week for a doozy of an episode literally makes me want to retch just by the description. S3E21: All The Principal's Men, which aired on March 10, 1985.
In this episode when Rick reveals that the cafeteria's been substituting horse meat for beef on his cable-access show, the principal wants to know his source.
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Have a great week everyone!
