Crimson, cream... and pink
Published: 6/10/2008 7:07 AM
Last Modified: 6/10/2008 7:07 AM
Today's tale is courtesy of The Star newspaper in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Stay with it long enough, there's quite a payoff at the end...
"Ten years into a 17-year career as a flight attendant for U.S. Airways, Dana Pizzo received a 'thank you' certificate in the mail. Two years into selling cosmetics full time for Mary Kay, she has a pink 2008 Cadillac CTS.
Any regrets over the change in careers?
'No, none whatsoever,' she said.
Pizzo and husband, Joe, picked up her prize from a dealership in Forest City on Friday. The pale pink sedan represents the most coveted incentive awarded by the company, according to Mary Kay. It’s the third car Pizzo has earned in her short career with the cosmetics giant. She chose cash compensation in lieu of a Pontiac Vibe or Grand Prix.
But she just couldn’t turn down the custom Cadillac, one of only 1,800 nationwide.
'I worked hard, but it wasn’t hard work,' Pizzo said.
She manages a sales force of more than 78 members, including 40 local sellers. Other team members are staggered nationwide, including Florida, Washington, New York and California. Pizzo had to sell $96,000 in six months to earn the car. For the fiscal year, Pizzo’s team sold more than $360,000.
Even her husband is starting to get excited. Joe, the football coach at Gardner-Webb University, has driven the car twice, but only at night, Dana said.
She said he’s lightened up since she told him that University of Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops has been seen driving his wife’s pink Mary Kay Cadillac.
'If Stoops will drive it,' she said, 'he can drive it.'
-- Guerin Emig
Written by
Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
