So I Got Let Go At Work

[Rolent Tex]

And as much as I enjoyed the experience I’m not sad and saw it coming once the little bald dictator that was our general sales manager got promoted to the top job. Garbage training, almost zero constructive criticism and help unless you begged for it. Managers hand fed certain salespeople good leads and then blamed us when we weren’t selling to sales leads with no phone numbers that never read emails. Working there tanked my savings and my credit and I could barely pay my rent. I’ve never worked at a place that had so much racism, sexism and sexual harassment. Even my coworkers were shocked that I was let go as I was leaving and shook all their hands.

Thank god I don’t have to work anymore 12 hour shifts this month listening to that bald asshole complain that we all shit the bed.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

f*** that place. Got leads on another job?

[Andew9001]

Sounds like you're better off without the place. Good luck with your next job. Hopefully it will be a much better experience.

[Rolent Tex]

Jan 25, 2024 3:28:23 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

f*** that place. Got leads on another job?

None yet. I had my resume updated and was firing out applications days before it happened. We had a very large hiring class that finished yesterday and a few of us knew they were gonna start releasing people once it was done.

[Nr1Humanoid]

I assume the bald bastard got the top job based more on brown nosing than competence.

[Rolent Tex]

Jan 25, 2024 8:04:51 GMT -5 Nr1Humanoid said:

I assume the bald bastard got the top job based more on brown nosing than competence.

He’s good at what he does. He’s also good at being just a miserable prick of a human being.

[Moppy]

I hear ya. Similar situation for me late last year, although I fortunately managed to grab a voluntary redundancy on the way out. Glad to be shot of the place, although it has really rankled to see several decent, talented people also lose their jobs whilst the clueless, brown-nosing sociopaths are just handed more and more power as the business circles the drain.

Best of luck in your new job search. At least it sounds as if, like me, you know you'll be better off away from there.

[Gecko]

Yeah, sounds like you're better off being away from there for your own long term well-being.

[edgestar]

Good luck to you, in the next venture!! Sounds like you will be alright!

[Soultastic]

Jan 25, 2024 8:24:49 GMT -5 Rolent Tex said:

Jan 25, 2024 8:04:51 GMT -5 Nr1Humanoid said:

I assume the bald bastard got the top job based more on brown nosing than competence.

He’s good at what he does. He’s also good at being just a miserable prick of a human being.

That's a terrible combo. You're much better than this, f*** that place.

[tirtefaa]

Guys like your superior are a dime a dozen, and it's unfortunate when they infiltrate a company.

It's kind of a weird butterfly effect with my last job. I was at that company for well over a decade. A few years before everything went down, there was a decision to create a secondary location for our company since we were having difficulty finding employees at the first location. Anyways, we had 3 managers with an additional person getting promoted, so the plan would be to have 2 managers in each location. Seeing as myself and one of the other two managers as moving over there, I campaigned heavily to receive it, but I was turned down. Instead, they picked another manager and promoted a girl. Unfortunately, these two ladies did *not* get along. Not only were they at each other's throats, but the secondary location almost tanked around this time. After a few months, they decided to make a couple decisions, the first was to swap me to that location and the second was to hire someone to effectively oversee things. Now once this happened, there was no longer any fighting, but the guy they hired to oversee things really liked making himself seem more valuable than he actually was. Not only was he cutthroat, but he changed every aspect of our business, believing he had all the answers, and our owner was so caught up in everything, she believed him. He ended up getting another position and I received his old position, finding a means to correct a lot of the holes he had left behind when it came to rules and regulations. Unfortunately, after all his changes, it didn't change the overall bottom line (not that things were even bad), but he still continued to convince her that everyone was not doing their part and that she should cut her losses with that part of the company, which ended up costing roughly 40 people their job. Oh and he's still there.

It's a big "what if" had things been different from the get go.

[Rolent Tex]

Jan 25, 2024 13:56:22 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Guys like your superior are a dime a dozen, and it's unfortunate when they infiltrate a company.

It's kind of a weird butterfly effect with my last job. I was at that company for well over a decade. A few years before everything went down, there was a decision to create a secondary location for our company since we were having difficulty finding employees at the first location. Anyways, we had 3 managers with an additional person getting promoted, so the plan would be to have 2 managers in each location. Seeing as myself and one of the other two managers as moving over there, I campaigned heavily to receive it, but I was turned down. Instead, they picked another manager and promoted a girl. Unfortunately, these two ladies did *not* get along. Not only were they at each other's throats, but the secondary location almost tanked around this time. After a few months, they decided to make a couple decisions, the first was to swap me to that location and the second was to hire someone to effectively oversee things. Now once this happened, there was no longer any fighting, but the guy they hired to oversee things really liked making himself seem more valuable than he actually was. Not only was he cutthroat, but he changed every aspect of our business, believing he had all the answers, and our owner was so caught up in everything, she believed him. He ended up getting another position and I received his old position, finding a means to correct a lot of the holes he had left behind when it came to rules and regulations. Unfortunately, after all his changes, it didn't change the overall bottom line (not that things were even bad), but he still continued to convince her that everyone was not doing their part and that she should cut her losses with that part of the company, which ended up costing roughly 40 people their job. Oh and he's still there.

It's a big "what if" had things been different from the get go.

Worse thing is the guys that have been there a long time said they always made great money and worked nowhere near the hours. The idiot isn’t getting any extra car sales making us work all the extra hours. Here’s an idea….since we get limited leads a day how about a committed department that vets the leads, contacts them and makes sure they’re legit…like every other place that does sales in the world. Instead of not selling 10% of your leads you get one internet lead a day and it’s usually a garbage one. Over a week to me leaving almost all my leads had no numbers or disconnected numbers so how can I sell them if I can’t contact them. But it’s my fault.

[Hit Girl]

Sounds like Glengarry Glen Ross

[unc40]

When I was younger I worked at a store who had an owner with a temper, the manager was a redneck and had no concern for employees safety, a drunk handyman, and the head salesperson was the owners wife who was known to be rude to customers. I worked there for six of the most miserable months of my work life and eventually quit. If I am not respected by my bosses I will not stay there. Life is too short to be stressed like that not to mention stress is unhealthy.