More Real-Life Sales Managers from Hell

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  BNETComment2

  10/27/09 | Report as spam

  RE: More Real-Life Sales Managers from Hell

  The sales manager with two sets of books. He raised our quota monthly, not following the actual company quota program which he hid from the sales reps.
  
  He profited on our rightfully earned larger commissions.
  

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine

  10/29/09 | Report as spam

  RE: More Real-Life Sales Managers from Hell

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  Whoa! That sounds more like the Sales Manager who ought to be in jail!

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  barcodeguy

  10/29/09 | Report as spam

  RE: More Real-Life Sales Managers from Hell

  When quotes to my prospects became his buddy's orders, and I confronted him about the issue, he responded with, "I can't micro manage every account."
  
  He also told me that I could not sell to an account which purchased millions of dollars of our products, because they did not meet the contract guidelines of our manufacturer partners. He forgot about it, and a year later went to the company owner bragging about his new success with a multi-million dollar account (Which one of our manufacturers had dropped in his lap, by the way). When I mentioned to him that he had told me a year earlier that I was not allowed to sell to the company, he quickly said he had to go and hung up the phone.