The Ponzzz
03-26-2007, 10:03 AM
A month ago I posted some great news of landing what I thought and hoped was an excellent job for a sister company of Silicon Knights. Ended up being nice, but the cons outweighed the pros and I had to decline the position after my second interview and being offered an in person interview in Buffalo, NY.
Basically, for someone with a career, taking a very temp position many miles away would be out of the question. The pay was very high for the amount of time I would be working for them, but I'd lose my current job that I've been working at for awhile now.
Speaking of... After my current employer heard of my chance to take a job working on the Marketing aspects for a Online Video Game Company, I started getting treated differently. Management handled everything very professionally, but I quickly noticed I wasn;t getting the leads I was before.
Where I work now is kinda hard to explain. I work for a major company in the Rochester NY area that is a direct marketing partner with many of today's top Printer/Press distributors. Companies such as Presstek, Oce, Canon, HP, Kodak, etc work directly with us. What we do, is sell their products and help market they latest and greatest. And what I do is Sales Rep Support. Basically all the privileges a Sales Rep has with the company to go right from meeting a new client to the sale of a fine $500,000 piece of equipment. BUT, the main purpose of my position is to set up the sale so the Sales Rep basically goes in with the paperwork and says, "Sign here!" while working out and payment/leasing plans.
And there's the rub! Due to the nature of my job, my salary is higher than a Sales Rep. My commission is far lower. Say, if I sell one of our $450,000 duplex printers, I get a nice 1% of the sale, while my partner(the sales rep) gets 5%. Sales Support caps off at 5 a week(which is literally impossible, but can happen), while Sales Rep's cap is the sky. Pisses me off, because we do all the work.
Anyways... Just before the Holidays last year, I was assigned to another task all together, to visit with local companies and call long distance companies to sell a business report on market stradegy. Seriously, anyone who took Intro to Business and Marketing, it was literraly the text book you bought. It was a piece of flaming shit. But my company had hand picked me, and me alone to try to sell 180 of these before Jan 31st. The prize? For each that I sold, I got $15, if I sold all 180, I got $3000 on top of the $15 per. And for everyone I sold after the 180, I got $30. Sounded awesome. Until it failed. In the 90 days the project lasted, I sold 0. My boss sold 0 and our website sold 0. Our website actually only had 112 hits for the entire 90 days, which we believe was us. The price tag for this .pdf was $600. People I called could only pay with a credit card over the phone, right there and then. People I met with could not see a copy of it. It was a pile of horse shit.
So, that's when I started looking for something new. And then the Marketing thing happened. And now, at my job, I been getting no leads what so ever. So I'm pratically cold calling trying to sell a half a million digital imaging printing press. Or anyone that comes to the showroom(funny).
But, last week, the United Way made our company an offer, and I might get to help with that campaign. Who knows!
Anyways, I'm ranting and raving and really there is no point to this post other than to get it off my chest. I feel like if I can't keep this experience on my resume, I'm gonna start getting too old to land a good career. I been trying to go back for my Bach in Business(I have my associates), but it's so freaking hard, I take a class here and there and I'm whooped.
Basically, for someone with a career, taking a very temp position many miles away would be out of the question. The pay was very high for the amount of time I would be working for them, but I'd lose my current job that I've been working at for awhile now.
Speaking of... After my current employer heard of my chance to take a job working on the Marketing aspects for a Online Video Game Company, I started getting treated differently. Management handled everything very professionally, but I quickly noticed I wasn;t getting the leads I was before.
Where I work now is kinda hard to explain. I work for a major company in the Rochester NY area that is a direct marketing partner with many of today's top Printer/Press distributors. Companies such as Presstek, Oce, Canon, HP, Kodak, etc work directly with us. What we do, is sell their products and help market they latest and greatest. And what I do is Sales Rep Support. Basically all the privileges a Sales Rep has with the company to go right from meeting a new client to the sale of a fine $500,000 piece of equipment. BUT, the main purpose of my position is to set up the sale so the Sales Rep basically goes in with the paperwork and says, "Sign here!" while working out and payment/leasing plans.
And there's the rub! Due to the nature of my job, my salary is higher than a Sales Rep. My commission is far lower. Say, if I sell one of our $450,000 duplex printers, I get a nice 1% of the sale, while my partner(the sales rep) gets 5%. Sales Support caps off at 5 a week(which is literally impossible, but can happen), while Sales Rep's cap is the sky. Pisses me off, because we do all the work.
Anyways... Just before the Holidays last year, I was assigned to another task all together, to visit with local companies and call long distance companies to sell a business report on market stradegy. Seriously, anyone who took Intro to Business and Marketing, it was literraly the text book you bought. It was a piece of flaming shit. But my company had hand picked me, and me alone to try to sell 180 of these before Jan 31st. The prize? For each that I sold, I got $15, if I sold all 180, I got $3000 on top of the $15 per. And for everyone I sold after the 180, I got $30. Sounded awesome. Until it failed. In the 90 days the project lasted, I sold 0. My boss sold 0 and our website sold 0. Our website actually only had 112 hits for the entire 90 days, which we believe was us. The price tag for this .pdf was $600. People I called could only pay with a credit card over the phone, right there and then. People I met with could not see a copy of it. It was a pile of horse shit.
So, that's when I started looking for something new. And then the Marketing thing happened. And now, at my job, I been getting no leads what so ever. So I'm pratically cold calling trying to sell a half a million digital imaging printing press. Or anyone that comes to the showroom(funny).
But, last week, the United Way made our company an offer, and I might get to help with that campaign. Who knows!
Anyways, I'm ranting and raving and really there is no point to this post other than to get it off my chest. I feel like if I can't keep this experience on my resume, I'm gonna start getting too old to land a good career. I been trying to go back for my Bach in Business(I have my associates), but it's so freaking hard, I take a class here and there and I'm whooped.