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'He was officially reprimanded': Salesperson tries to pull power move with the lab techs, learns the hard way how to wait 24-48 hours

'He was officially reprimanded': Salesperson tries to pull power move with the lab techs, learns the hard way how to wait 24-48 hours

If you have ever worked somewhere that included a sales department, then you are familiar with the clashing of heads. Salespersons tends to have a little bit of a more inflated ego than the other employees. Why is that? Who knows? Maybe because they think they're the money makers since they're the ones making the deals. But the deals wouldn't even be able to happen if the product didn't exist, so maybe they should be taken down a peg. Well, that thankfully happened in this story we found on Red…
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‘[The company] ended up getting less money for providing better services’: Tech savvy-millennial outsmarts internet salesperson trying to upsell her mom, gets her a 30% cheaper deal

‘[The company] ended up getting less money for providing better services’: Tech savvy-millennial outsmarts internet salesperson trying to upsell her mom, gets her a 30% cheaper deal

If you have ever worked as a phone salesperson, then you know how horrible it is. If you enjoy it, then you work at a company that is unique and cares about their employees and customers or you are a sadist. Because most of the time, these companies hired to sell products for even larger companies pay minimum wage, make employees upsell unnecessary items to work off of commission, and most don't even offer benefits. Imagine it, you're talking to someone who has to be pretty old because they sti…
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'The company saved £5k on fees, but got one day of work instead of five': Penny-pinching company gets taught a lesson when their traveling salesman is forced to fly coach

Bureaucratic bean-counting threatens every employee's work-life balance, for none more than the traveling salesmen of the world. To be totally frank, there's always a disconnect between the bean-counters of a company and the footmen because financial decisions are made in an office whereas the salespeople are out there in the trenches. The man in the field can see a bit more clearly than the man on the sidelines...
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'The only reason I took it was for the raise': Boss begs their salesperson to cover their position while they're on maternity leave, then cuts their salary last minute, shorting them ~$200 per week

C-level management seems to forget that their ‘family’ of employees is really only working so they can get that money bag every two weeks. Despite their lofty claims that everyone's on the same team and needs to reach company goals, a lot of workers are starting to refuse to do more work unless they're financially compensated– as it should be!
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