My life down here has definitely changed changed from what it was in Canada. Some of the changes are good, and some of them are bad. Still, I find it comforting on most of the occasions when something crops up down here that is so familiar to how things worked up North.
Our salesmen still thinking that the world revolves around them? Not so comforting.
Hypothetical Situation #1: Salesman A gets us a contract awarded on Monday for a significant amount of work. The first job is to go at the end of the week. A normal person might actually inform some people within our company of this immediately so that equipment and logistics can get sorted out ASAP. A salesman won't think anything about waiting two days to tell people.
Hypothetical Situation #2: Salesman B doesn't like the numbers coming out of the lab for a certain blend. Rather than discussing his (valid) concerns with the people who understand the chemistry and trying to come up with a solution together, which is what a normal person would do, a salesman will instead discuss the issue with another salesman and then unilaterally change the blend, inform the client of the new blend, and then ask the lab to run tests on the blend to make sure it works.
They just don't seem to live in the same world as us.
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Preach it, brother!
There's a reason that Dilbert is so popular. I decided to leave my first job when I realized that Dilbert for me was a documentary.
Heh. I don't think my job's that bad, and management down here's quite good. The demons of stupidity just seem to inhabit a few select members of our sales department.
Of course they don't live in the same world as us. They live in a better, shinier, more expensive world than we do, with more swimming pools and life insurance and vacuums that *do* suck in the way they're supposed to. They live in a world of commissions and double-breasted suit jackets that are meant to look stylish but which just look cheap. They wear too much cologne in their world, because they have lost most of their human senses.
Um...maybe I should stop now...
You forgot to mention that, in their world, a day at work consists of usually about 2 hours of work followed by 6+ hours of golf and drinking.
And they only have Planned Children, and everyone knows that Planned Children do exactly what their parents tell them to do, and cost nothing to raise, except the price of a big-screen television and some Nibs.
Man. Do I sound bitter?
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