I’ve been at my current job for a year and a few months. I basically do sales in marketing. I don’t want to get further into it; it’s a specific company type but if I add more info someone could doxx me.
I’m great in sales. It’s my forte. I have experience. I work with graphic designers, web developers, advertisers/marketing… and I love my work family. I want to say that first and foremost. The people (besides the higher ups) are the closest I’ve ever been to a workplace and that’s saying something.
Our CEO is the type to innovate and I do believe that… but it feels like even though we’re tiny (15 people), he has no idea what we do on a daily basis and he doesn’t care to learn. Therefore, he will get on you for not doing enough on random days; dude, our system is fucking broken and useless and I can’t always get everything done on schedule because of this. Yet he’ll say “we’re gonna have a new website page up in a week!” Over and over and it’s pushed off til six months later.
He said we’d hire more salespeople and get another 850 sales this year from me and the other sales guy plus whoever they’d hire. I knew that would never, ever, ever happen with how we’re doing things; we’d have to get 3-4 new companies on per day, and we can’t do that nor can the company handle it at this size. Other sales guy quit in January, so, heh… yeah. I’m the primary salesperson; they hired two more on, except they changed our role and trained the new people in the OTHER things I should now do but I don’t have time for the training because I have my current things to do. It’s a fucking mess. So the new salespeople are hardly selling and are hardly able to sell; what happened to your 850 goal? It’s fucked entirely. What a cluster fuck. Way to set realistic goals. What a joke.
I’ve helped train these people. I’m the primary salesperson and I’m busy. My coworkers rave about my sales abilities. And yet when I asked for a raise to cover my huge medical bills (I probably end up netting $25k a year even with commission, and I drive 60 miles round trip to get there/go home; my base pay is literally only 25k gross), I got turned down because they “couldn’t afford it” when we have a whole other chunk of our company that deals with big selling accounts. Hmm. K. Also the male salesperson who worked with me was given two raises of 5k each when he worked with us… he didn’t do anything special to deserve them, they gave him two raises when he asked and won’t give me one even after working the same time. I’ve told my coworkers and they’re incensed.
Six months ago our CEO told us we’d built a dashboard for clients and to speak as little to clients as possible over phone/meetings. So no scheduling meetings with clients even when they don’t understand marketing or advertising (hence us doing it for them). So many accounts dropped because they cannot understand everything that we’re doing and they’re confused and feel ignored. We’d ALL told CEO that sales doesn’t work this way; sales in this type of arena is personal connections and personal help, because laypeople do not understand advertising and marketing, especially those that can hardly use Google search correctly. Well, six months later he’s “listened” (or learned the hard way) because like we all thought, it failed. Miserably.
This is insanity. Now they’re going to rate us on company values in individual meetings. I’m so frustrated. You’re rating our values… when we could be brainstorming how to save the company. I want to rate the CEO on his goddamn values.
I’m tired and all I’m finding on indeed is $14/hr jobs. I have a lot of experience but only some college, I’m admittedly quick to learn/very intelligent but no degree.