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Originally Posted by Unregistered  Seriously dude. You are hypnotized by the green. Get a deprogrammer and quick! I too sold the most, worked the hardest, constantly outshone all of my coworkers and was asked to fix 5 branches in succession , which I did. The day that you can't hack it is the day you realize you are just a piece of meat for the fodder. No one should have to "hack" their job. There are pros and cons to every thing in life but open your eyes. They use that old line to keep you under control until they no longer find that you are of any value to them. Take it from a former "golden child". Get out while you can before they turn on you and destroy your life, and they will. You are a rookie and cannot see the true evil of ERAC. |
Seriously, I am not hypnotzied by shit. Nor am I a rookie. I've been doing this over 5 years, 2 as an AM and 2 as a BM. I've seen 90% of the BMs in my Region turnover in those 5 years. Its a starter job, it has always been a starter job, it will always be a starter job. The select few will make it through beyond Level 3, but I recognize that's the slender minority.
It is what it is. I am a "golden boy" now, will assemble a large collection of brag-worthy emails, stats, dinner awards, and take it to a sales, banking/finance, or marketing interview when the tide turns. That's the point I was trying to make: this crap happens at a lot of places, its not unique to the Big E, and when all else fails, bounce. It takes a pretty special individual who lets a starter job "ruin" their life. I am sure there are a million sob stories about vengeful ARMS and BMS calling prospective employers, giving negative referrences, or other illegal HR procedures, but there's a fix for that, too. Cut all contact with the company and its employees. You left, they may have been coworkers or friends, but they're dead to you now. Don't leave a trail, vanish on the wind like a trace of smoke from the cash-qualified PT Cruiser. Done.
Regardless, take it for what it is. Build referrences, create some form of "verifiable sales track record" (as required by any account management interview), and roll out with your foot in a door it may not have previously slipped into. And don't listen to the dipshit bleeding green MT who keeps posting about Guitar Hero and how shitty her BM is. She'll get promoted to AM soon enough, and that'll knock the wind out of her sails.