I am working for this marketing company as an accountant. We have branches all over the country and each branch has its own sales team. But as fate would have it, my branch is a two man show - my manager and me.
The guy who is the manager has a set monthly target. He does not go out on field marketing and hardly calls anyone personally. He just places ads in the newspapers and waits for people to walk in with bags of money. By god's grace, he has been achieving the targets every month. With no other salesman, the manager has to achieve the target by himself. He does not want to appoint someone as salesman because, he's afraid that the salesman may do more business than him, thereby robbing him of the incentives. Ok, that's his own problem.
But the trouble is, he starts nagging me by the third week of the month, to close some sales. He just seems to be not able to get into that thick skull of his head that one can only talk to the potential customers and not bludgeon them into buying. I am right now in the office - today is sunday - waiting for somebody to walk in and buy. He keeps calling me on the phone every half an hour and wants to know the sales figure. Some times I feel like just walking out of the office, but with a kid to take care and the horror of looking for a new job, I just swallow my pride and to try to keep cool. I am writing this just to get it off my chest.
If any of you people have similar experience, pls post your comments.
The guy who is the manager has a set monthly target. He does not go out on field marketing and hardly calls anyone personally. He just places ads in the newspapers and waits for people to walk in with bags of money. By god's grace, he has been achieving the targets every month. With no other salesman, the manager has to achieve the target by himself. He does not want to appoint someone as salesman because, he's afraid that the salesman may do more business than him, thereby robbing him of the incentives. Ok, that's his own problem.
But the trouble is, he starts nagging me by the third week of the month, to close some sales. He just seems to be not able to get into that thick skull of his head that one can only talk to the potential customers and not bludgeon them into buying. I am right now in the office - today is sunday - waiting for somebody to walk in and buy. He keeps calling me on the phone every half an hour and wants to know the sales figure. Some times I feel like just walking out of the office, but with a kid to take care and the horror of looking for a new job, I just swallow my pride and to try to keep cool. I am writing this just to get it off my chest.
If any of you people have similar experience, pls post your comments.
