Monday, February 06, 2006
Things Fall Apart, Part II
Recently we had a convention in another city. As with past conventions this one was poorly organized, over funded and ineptly managed. The folks selected to go were mostly Sales folks, including our embattled Sales Manager. I didn't go.
The crew got there on Friday, the convention was to be held on a Saturday/Sunday, returnign late Sunday evening. This morning I noticed that our CEO (who went) and our DSP (who also went) were not in. I thought that was a little odd for the DSP to not be in, as he's here typically early every morning. Turns out the CEO & the DSP are still livin' it up in convention town (not Vegas).
This kind of pisses me off for the reason that while they are out having a great time shucking out company funds for strippers and booze I am forced to accept a measely salary. I'll pause here and say that I'm glad to have a wage at all, and that is something I really am grateful for. Gratitude aside, I'm pissed off that my ocmpany would choose to go and blow funds for two guys' romp. I should also note that I don't know for certain how the funds are being spent or where they are really coming from. I just assume that the two of them are out there blowing company dough on things other than staplers.
The big event that took place during the convention was the firing of our Sales Manager. There's been a lot of tension between he and some other members of the staff for various reasons, and it has all come to a head now. It seems he was given an ultimatum to do somethign or be fired and he refused to do that thing so he got fired. I don't really want to release the details of what he was asked to do, but it was kind of trivial. I also wasn't there, so I don't know all the details first hand. Suffice to say that he probably should have complied with a simple request if he had wanted to keep his job.
Which now plants me in an odd position. In addition to Sales Manager being gone we also have another Sales guy who is indefineitely dispoed just now (you don't want to know ... its really dumb). So we're down a few soldiers. I've been angling for a shot at that side of operations, and I had been making arrangements prior to all of this to present my case. Now I fear that I'll look like some sort of shameless opportunist.
¶ 3:21 PM
The crew got there on Friday, the convention was to be held on a Saturday/Sunday, returnign late Sunday evening. This morning I noticed that our CEO (who went) and our DSP (who also went) were not in. I thought that was a little odd for the DSP to not be in, as he's here typically early every morning. Turns out the CEO & the DSP are still livin' it up in convention town (not Vegas).
This kind of pisses me off for the reason that while they are out having a great time shucking out company funds for strippers and booze I am forced to accept a measely salary. I'll pause here and say that I'm glad to have a wage at all, and that is something I really am grateful for. Gratitude aside, I'm pissed off that my ocmpany would choose to go and blow funds for two guys' romp. I should also note that I don't know for certain how the funds are being spent or where they are really coming from. I just assume that the two of them are out there blowing company dough on things other than staplers.
The big event that took place during the convention was the firing of our Sales Manager. There's been a lot of tension between he and some other members of the staff for various reasons, and it has all come to a head now. It seems he was given an ultimatum to do somethign or be fired and he refused to do that thing so he got fired. I don't really want to release the details of what he was asked to do, but it was kind of trivial. I also wasn't there, so I don't know all the details first hand. Suffice to say that he probably should have complied with a simple request if he had wanted to keep his job.
Which now plants me in an odd position. In addition to Sales Manager being gone we also have another Sales guy who is indefineitely dispoed just now (you don't want to know ... its really dumb). So we're down a few soldiers. I've been angling for a shot at that side of operations, and I had been making arrangements prior to all of this to present my case. Now I fear that I'll look like some sort of shameless opportunist.
¶ 3:21 PM
