I think a lot of it depends on the company. I left a place that the VP of sales and borderline de facto president would watch people on camera coming through the parking lot to see when people came and went. I was basically setup to take his job eventually and it shocked them but just so fed up with it left and feel much better. 1200 person company to the new one 700. Generally same amount of revenue a year Still in the office every day, but work good hours with nobody watching when you come and go. I guess my point is some office jobs are different than others
Fair, and I totally get it. Couple reasons why I wanted to go back. First, the volatility out there has been really bad for me mentally. I’ll lose clients due to them pulling back on spend, then gain new ones. But the uncertainty lately has just really been a lot for me. Also, I’d be lying if I didn’t say I have some fears about AI like ChatGPT talking away at least part of my business (I’m a writer and PR guy). Lastly, I figure I have 25 years of working left. I just can’t imagine doing my own thing for that long.
Have the sales titles gotten just out of control anywhere else? Can't throw a stone in my company without hitting someone who is a strategic director of X vertical. Is there a customer in the world that cares about this stuff?
I work for a small family owned company with ±25 employees. We have an owner/president who is also our top sales person by a wide margin, a VP of Global Sales and Marketing and and VP of New Business evelopment. Both of the VPs are absolutely nothing more than sales people and they are not capable of working together on anything, mortal enemies.
Not sure if it’s me but I feel like Business Development as a title has gotten broader and bit more unclear. Not sure if others experience that at bigger companies
Can understand that being tough. Have this happen in consulting a lot....I'd love to run a small specific shop but the volatility and uncertainty would be crushing
It’s mentally and emotionally exhausting. With new clients, I write a 30 day notice to sever ties into the contract. That at least gives me a month to scramble and try and find ways to replace the income the next month. But I’ve been burned a couple of times when no contract was in place. Usually these are relationships with old colleagues or friends of old colleagues who were referred to me and I’m too nice to be stern about it. Happened in late February when a client that was a $3,000 retainer told me they were pulling back immediately. It’s 100% my fault for not having stringent contract terms in place, but that doesn’t help the mental anguish.
Is there a way to disable reply all functionality for specific people in Outlook? Cause I work with some folks that hit reply all every time they take a breath in. ***email that I’m copied on for informational purposes*** Reply all: Thanks! At least 100x per day.
Do you otherwise need emails from those people? You can write a rule to put their emails in a different folder.
I once wrote a rule that if [person who was useless] was cc'd on the email, immediately delete it. I figured if someone was telling him about it, it couldn't possibly be important. Never burned me in four year For jbr I would probably write the rule as "from: replyall person" and "includes: someone in another department" automatically delete
I've tried to ignore VPs that all they sent me were unimportant emails. Spoiler I did not have permission to ignore those users
I had a DVP forward me the notification that I deleted his email without reading it I deleted that after reading it so I could show progress I guess? Was I supposed to respond?
I'm about 6 months into a new job, and someone just directed me to the "firm policy library" in response to a question I had about our 401k. My search for "401(k)" turned up zero. My search for "retirement" turned up a document called [Company Legal Name] Policy on Policies. In manually scrolling through the 100+ documents to see if anything felt relevant, I came across a Policy Creation Policy document. I guess the Policy on Policies does not cover when to create a policy. Still haven't found anything that touches on my question.
When I run my own company that my dad gives to me, my 1st rule is going to be if you ever create an offline copy called "_version###" and not used sharing capabilities.... I will fire you on the spot
The worst is when people create new versions of shared files they know for a fact other people will collaborate on
Our admin went on a mission trip to Guatemala last week and every day this week when people walk in she greets them with "Grand Risings!" and "Bright Blessings!"
She's mid-20s and full of life. She means well and is good to work with. I have just seen some guys roll their eyes as they walk by.
We could have a thread dedicated to LinkedIn cringe but I don’t want my face to melt by it’s existence
"Cycles" New buzz word I've been hearing wrt if you have any "time"....because we can't just say time. "Do you have any cycles available??" Is this an agile term I just haven't heard/
Not familiar with cycles but if it is cliché and catchy I am sure my execs will start saying by the end of the year.
I’ve worked in IT for 20 years and have heard cycles for at least 10+ of those years. It’s a reference to cpu cycle. The real nerds will reply with some kind of comment about switching eating up cycles.
I use bandwidth regularly Have never heard cycles except when yoga chics can't do certain poses because they're on their moon cycle.
As someone in marketing i am now flooded with everyone feeling to need to make some deep point about Barbie and how we can all learn from them.
I heard cycles more in consulting than I do currently. Never truly understood it. What is the measurement of time for a cycle? One hour, one day, or one week?