HARDCORE!!!!!!!! (Sales)
Ahh, time to tell the tale of Chris the hardcore business midget.

I have mentioned before that I previously worked at an IT firm in Sheffield, supplying kit to a number of locals for an inflated price. The company really took off and therefore we had a number of new staff start at the place, one of these new staff members wasa new sales manager Chris, a bloke who was around 5 foot and had worked at a more high sales IT firm in Leeds where backstabbing and sales targets meant everything. Our firms approach was a bit different to his and he would often be seen running round the office with a bright red face yelling sale sale sale at the close of every deal.

When he didn’t close the deal or hit a target was a different story.

I remember a few months after he had started I was walking to the office one morning and found his car in the car park. I was usually the first to arrive at work as I had to catch a lift to Sheffield so usually arrived at the site at 7:30 – 8:00 am (This was my pre- driving days). I tried the door to the premises but it was locked. Hoping to not find Chris sat upstairs beating himself with a cane for underperforming I made my way up to the sales floor and found……….nothing. The place was empty.

After a conversation with him (when he eventually turned up) it turned out that Chris had decided to punish himself for the missed target via walking home on Friday night after work (allegedly he deemed himself as unworthy of using company property for not hitting target). If he failed next month he said he was going to do it without shoes.

I may have forgot to mention this earlier but Chris lives in Leeds, a number of miles away from our business in Sheffield.

I am happy to say that I left the company before he got this style of treatment passed as a companywide thing.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 12:30, Reply)