Another day - another resume

I hated my last sales job at financial services company. Money had been great, except that I was financing construction and industrial equipment and the economy turned. Well, not turned - stopped- home construction came to a halt. My sales numbers tanked, everyone slowed except our dept Suck Up. She kept getting plum accounts not affected by the recession. Layoff rumors were rampant and when I heard rumors of our division closing, I jumped ship. Right into the frickin' ocean without a life jacket I might add. Landed in manufacturing sales. Swell, I thought, I knew this business since I worked for a competitor a couple of years ago. Had the interviews, talked to their senior sales people. Really thought I did my homework on the company. During orientation and training, they were practically singing "Kumbaya", no expense spared at the Christmas party, I even received a small bonus for my short time there. Then reality set in. HARD. During a training class, we finished a few minutes early, so I went back to my temporary desk and checked my voice mails and chilled out for 10 mins, until my next class. At the end of the day, the HR manager wants to speak with me. No problem I thought. When I got to her office, she has me sit down and asks what I did with my time during the period training was finished "early". I had to explain what I did during approximately 12 minutes of free time. The next morning, my manager sends me an email and I have to list out for him what I did during the 12 minutes I stole from the company. I should have run away right there and then and never looked back. My calls are monitored as are emails. Our company VP gets a copy of each and every email received and sent out. He has asked me about an email before I have had a chance to read it. Now he's not cc'd on these emails mind you - he gets a secret copy! He also reads all our ACT notes (contact managment software), and will call a customer to dispute your comments without your knowledge and then call you on the carpet about it. I have been there 6 months and I'm not making my quota.
The owners are so secretive and paranoid that someone will hack into their precious system, I don't have access to the product database. I'm a salesperson and I can't have access to price and availability. I have to call a customer service rep, that's if I can get through. I can't email a quote to a customer. Some poor slob accidentally emailed pricing info to a competitor so we're all prohibited from emailing quotes to customers, only an internal clerky-lerky girl can do this for us salespeople. Two bad jobs in the last year and a half. I know all companies have their problems, office politics, etc., but this place takes the cake. I cringe each time I log in and open Outlook for fear of the critical, micro-managing emails from the boss. Ohhhhhh I could go on. I find myself paralyzed with anxiety trying to second guess these mental morons. Other employees have given me little tips for handling the BS, I just can't. My manager did ask me if I thought they were micro-managing, I replied that he brings the micro to a new level - Micron-managing. He thanked me for my candor and I almost thought this was a good thing. Except he went into the company president and repeated everything I said. Surprised I've made it through the probationary period.

Now just trying to see if it's best to leave this place off my resume entirely.....


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Submitted by hujwdupe on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 04:49.

good reading above..... at my place, the boss is so anal he'll time your lunch break and bitch if you're 2 min late. I think he's got nothing to do and does it out of boredom. We are salary, so we don't exactly get paid if we stay over or come early, but he does bitch when we are late, which makes no sense(to me, to him it makes perfect sense). So, I do my bare minimum, just to make it look like I do something, enough to keep him happy while he's there, and enough not to get fired. When he's not there I blow off as much as I can, so in the end it probably ends up costing him much more than the 2min he is bitching about. To all you bosses out there: Don't be anal about time, otherwise we employees will waste 10X more just to piss you off. I might be there, but I won't do anything productive. Happy, well paid employees are much more productive, so make them happy, and they will make you much more money than by you bitching.

hujwdupe