They’re so bad they’re funny our video this year had a skit about how making fun of people’s ethnic foods in the break rooms another about talking about different hair styles and how it’s not appropriate to ask to touch an Afro even though you always wanted one
I could never work in sales, I always would feel like I'm being a bad person and trying to pressure someone, but also because y'all are typically the first let go if the company needs to make any cuts. I'm guessing you saw that viral video of the sales person getting fired at cloudflare? I hVe two friends, one that used to work there, and one that still works there and it's shocking how bad tech companies are unable to not seemingly fire tons of people left and right still.
100% how I felt in sales. I'm trying to trick someone into buying something. I hated it and it felt wrong. It's why I failed out of it. I realize not all sales jobs are the same so I'm not saying all sales
I really wish I could make millions of dollars by saying shit like “let’s grow revenue and limit costs“
It's my fault for going on LinkedIn, but one of the bigwigs at my company (we are a health care adjacent business) made a post about how, sad but not shocking, vaccination rates among adults are falling. Someone who works in "strategic partnerships" at a pharma company posted this reply, I genuinely felt like punching the wall. You can't "business-ify" an easy way to do solve this problem, it's a complete lack of basic science education.
I did see that video. It was a shit show and it should not have been a performance conversation but a “we’re laying people off and unfortunately it’s most recent hires are the first to be let go”. Not that it’s any better but it’s truthful and you’re not gas lighting people into thinking they have been inadequate at their job. I do get that and I do want to win every deal but at the end of the day, I’ve shown you the potential value I can provide. So A) do you want it? And B) if so, what does your available budget look like. That’s more my mind set. If you don’t see value in my product, just say so.
I’m fine with SaaS or tech sales if I’ve reached out about the product and gone through demos. What drives me up a wall are the cold calls, LinkedIn messages and emails. No I don’t want to look at your startup AI network security tool which is revolutionizing the game (along with the other dozen companies also saying the same thing). If it’s not on our roadmap for a tool or service, we don’t want it. If it is, we’re using the Gartner charts since everyone else is playing the game long enough to get scooped up by the big boys.
Every LinkedIn message I've gotten tht last 6 months is essentially, "Let us show you how we use AI to help you wipe your own ass"
I get spam on my work email. I once got one with the subject line "CUTE CHICK HOT RAPE" and I immediately deleted it out of fear
I've been to AWS re:Invent the past 3 years and they have a huge expo, the majority of which are vendors that offer some neat swag. You have to get your badge scanned in order to visit their booths and get stuff, this basically means they'll email you or sometimes cold call you a few weeks after. I always tell them that I'm not someone who makes financial decisions at my company and I'm just looking for free stuff which they'll happily give me. Almost all of them do things that I do in my job anyways, basically paying a lot for someone to manage our AWS services when I can do it for much cheaper myself internally. All that is to say I still get cold calls and the sales people are sometimes flabbergasted that I'm not interested and only wanted free stuff at the conference.
Organization which reviews and ranks various software companies and their products. It’s best to also take other reviews or anecdotes into account, but it helps when first looking for a solution. https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/magic-quadrants-research Example:
Do we need to actually get stuff done? Hell no we can have 30 meetings about it and the higher ups can plot ways they can shift the blame to others. We love our brilliant overlords folks.
Going through an acquisition is not fun. Hello, make sure you continue to do your day job, meet with clients, sell new business, etc, but here are 18 billion hours of SAP Fiori Training, Sales Force Training, a new laptop that is locked down the point I can't share my screen in teams, a VPN that locks me out of some AI Apps I used, and an overbearing WBS code structure
In a leadership workshop today and the same person has used "low-hanging fruit" at least 15 times in a couple hours.
Is that where this thread came from https://www.the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/youve-just-taken-a-giant-dump.185205/#post-19787661
we use google drive as our file storage and management (don't ask me...) and the lack of features and functionality drives me insane. i have to do some moving and copying and nothing fucking works. this was a problem that was solved in the OG windows, but because 20 product managers need something to do at google they build something so bloated it becomes useless and worse than it was 30 years ago.
We were Google drive until moving to Microsoft in a merger about 6 months ago. Sharepoint is still unusable for me. Google ecosystem was so much more userfriendly
that’s part of Microsoft’s security I think. Make it where you really can’t use sharepoint effectively and it automatically protects because no one wants to fuck with it.
Sharepoint is pretty shitty when it comes to doing a basic thing of trying to share a file between a specific group of people that aren't on the same email alias list.
I have no idea what I’m doing with sharepoint/one drive. Rarely need to use it, so when I do I always preface my link with “let me know if you can’t access.”
I keep hearing this and automatically think marketing is throwing sand on a fire and saying in a scary voice “the tale of the Q2 miss”
A new thing excel does is say "excel didn't open properly last time... would you like to open in safe mode?" I always say no because I like to live dangerously
Yes. It is completely dependent on the companies involved. I’ve seen about the worst possible outcome and am currently apart of a company that’s having the best possible outcome given their size. It’s comical watching my first company completely destroy the first company I worked for. It could be an MBA case study on what not to do.
currently going through it my company was owned by a huge multinational corporation and the sale to a private equity firm was finalized in November. Overall it has been a positive experience and outlook is positive, but it's definitely a shift in culture
private equity firm acquisition was pretty hands off smooth in my experience being acquired by a competitor on the other hand, I'd expect that to be a bittttttttt different
I am probably 30-90 days away from this scenario. All options are currently on the table. It is definitely taking a big toll on me physically. I used to be good at compartmentalizing but I am struggling this time.
Not one person in my design and engineering dept has a phone at their desk or has their direct # forwarded to their cell phone since we moved from one side of our office to another in January. There have been no complaints from the employees without phones. We've been hearing rumors of implementing Teams as a phone service in the near future. I was feeling good about, until now.
Making a phone call is fine. Chatting is great, screen share great. However the amount of times im in a meeting or out of office and get calls that I would like to automatically go to voicemail is annoying. The actual phone call interface part is limited. I never get to see the phone number calling me when it’s coming into my cell phone. It could be so much better.