I’m just trying to figure out if this is normal behavior. I work for a insurance agent representing one of those big insurance companies.
Probably just venting here, but I really feel like this immoral and just plain unfair.
To give some background, I was hired with the expectation that I sell faaaar more than the agency sells on a regular basis. I struggled for a month or two and they threatened to make me work in the office after I was hired remote-only (I live 60 miles away). I refused and said I took this job as a remote job — not a remote only if I do this or that.
So, the next 2 months, I proceed to sell more than anyone at the agency has sold in its 35 year history. The closest producer sold some 30-40% less than I did a couple of times. I had two clients so grateful for my work that one painted me a custom painting and the other got my daughter and I SeaWorld tickets (her husband works there).
The boss disappears for the entire second month I am producing that much. The month after she’s gone, I miss my sales goal by about half of the production I made the previous two months. Which of course I did, I’m handling more of her job and have less time to sell.
A couple of weeks after that, she sends me this document saying — in very deliberate terms — that I will be terminated and no exceptions will be made if I go two consecutive months without selling at least 20 items. I sign it because I am so flabbergasted at this point that I feel like I’m going to get fired no matter what.
How can I defend myself now that I have signed this document? Should I just run for the hills? I have a six year old and I was really hoping for job security at this job and that she would be different.
I have a bachelors degree in information systems management from a State College and can’t get a job in my field because whatever the reason. Insurance is one of the only fields left that I can work without having to go to a warehouse or sacrifice time on the weekend with my daughter.
If you read this and you are on the Space Coast of Florida, please help me find an employer that appreciates how exceptional I am. I need job security for my daughter and I.
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