Reply #23: Only one?

[baldguy]

I once worked in sales for a mail-order computer manufacturer & distributor. The company brought in a new guy as VP of Sales whose first act was to decimate the sales dept. The only people to survive were those who had clients who'd walk if their rep left. I was one of the lucky(?) ones.

At least until he started playing games with my client's equipment. Each month they ordered between 50 and 100 systems which required one particular model & revision of a motherboard from one manufacturer, and it took about three weeks between the time we ordered the part and it was delivered to us for assembly. Mr VP of Sales decided - without telling me - that these motherboards weren't "critical" for the customer & refused to order them for two weeks. Of course the client wasn't very pleased, but they did keep the existing orders with us (due to my intervention) and actually placed another order with us.

The next month, he did it again. Again, without telling me. When I called the client & told them their order would be delayed AGAIN, they pulled $225,000 worth of orders from us. When I confronted his with this news, he determined that it was MY fault. :eyes:

This is also the guy that told us after 9/11 that we should be calling the former tenants of the WTC to sell them new office equipment - in spite of the fact that most of the people we dealt with who worked there had been shredded when the towers collapsed.

When I quit, I asked his three times for a meeting to talk about it - but he kept blowing me off. Finally I typed up my letter of resignation & left it on his desk. Then I sent a company-wide email saying good-bye & walked out in the middle of the day.

...

My next boss wasn't much better. He told me point-blank (after I was hired) that to be successful I would have to break the law.

I didn't last very long there.