Do you bully friends

[The Scoundrel]

I'm a salesman. I convince people they came up with the idea to do what I say.

Is that bullying?

[The Scoundrel]

I've never worked in sales, and I agree it's not bullying,

I consider it more like mind control.

I did consider studying hypnosis for nefarious reasons but figured it was pretty much what I do anyway just not making people think they're chickens and shit.

[The Scoundrel]

A lot of companies offer supervisory/managerial preparatory courses (sometimes called "leadership training" or the like). If you ever get the chance to sign up for one covering topics such as different personality types and how to 'motivate' them, do it.

At the very beginning of one such course I attended the instructor made us all promise to "only use this knowledge for Good, never Evil, purposes".

Interesting stuff.

I did a month course when  i started selling timeshare.

That was pretty much manipulation.

[The Scoundrel]

I don't know if it was exactly the same curriculum... the ones I've been to weren't concerned with selling things.

At least not overtly.

Any form of sales course has the same core aspect, you just chat and get people used to saying yes with questions to which it is the only answer then when you ask if they'll buy they're so used to saying yes they sign on the dotted line. There's many variants but that's the real basis.

[The Scoundrel]

Kirby send out assassins to defraud old ladies out of a grand for a $100 hoover.

Shameless.