Sales has been dethroned as the least trusted profession in America, revealed a recent survey. 

Sixty-eight percent of Americans now feel politics is the least trusted profession in America, knocking off Sales as the long-time incumbent, found a new survey by Sandler Training.

While most feel the shift to politics is a reflection of the major rift between this country’s political parties and the rash of scandals that have sprouted up over the past few years or so, the real surprise was that politics was such a runaway winner (or loser, depending on your perspective).

The top six on the list of professions people voted as the least trustworthy:

1. Politics (68%)
2. Sales (9%)
3. Law (7%)
4. Journalism (6%)
5. Banking (6%)
6. Automotive repair (5%)

The survey also asked respondents which segments of the sales profession they trusted the least. Car salespeople (38%) were the least trusted and financial sales execs (35%) came in second. Meanwhile, retail salespeople were the most trusted.

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