So I know today is the day after Christmas, but I let my family and friends know in advance that gifts would be late this year because I had to wait til payday. I work at a certain large cell service provider in the United States, and we get paid an $11 base pay, but they claim it's around $15-$20 with commission. Well, we only get about a 10% cut of the revenue we make and we ONLY get that if we exceed our sales goals for the month. The past few months have been pretty awful, super slow and hard to hit our goals. This month, however, we kicked it into high gear and made a bunch of cold calls and really pushed sales as hard as we could. It hasn't been a fantastic month, but it's been MUCH better than the last few. Well, today I was informed that a bunch of the customers I had set up under our service had decided to deactivate their service, meaning I lose all credit for what I've done. So instead of having dozens of new activations and sales, I now am down to only .25 new activations for the month. I was berated for this, and when I talked about how bullshit that I was they told me I should've “tried harder to sell”. I kept it together for a bit, but went to the back and had a complete mental breakdown. My m has been helping me afford groceries and been giving me a little extra money to help me get by even though I tell her to please stop doing it, and now I feel even shittier because I can't pay her back. I've been looking for other jobs around the area but nothing around here is any better, only offering around $12-$13 an hour unless you're willing to work 60 hours a week breaking your back at a factory. I don't even know what I'm hoping to get out of posting this, but I just needed to vent somewhere. I'm so fucking sick of working in the US.