Too much time on my hands
Company X has their national sales meeting this week even as my current company has their sales trip in Hawaii. Both leave me unsupervised for too many days which can only lead to bad behavior. Here’s hoping.
When I was with Company X, I used to refer to NSM meetings as the “hostage crisis” and “death by Powerpoint”. The nights are fun though, so much so that I thought about taking a few vacation days so that I could meet up with the gang at the bar in the evenings.
The days though, can be brutal, a combination of celebrating last year’s success tempered with the “but you suck right now” messages is exhausting. In sales, goals only go up and no matter how well you did yesterday, last week, last month, last semester, last year, Company X wants to you ache with uncertainty… what are you doing Now. Ok. Now. Ok. How about Now? Several of my good friends from Company X were then and are now I think better suited for the Now mentality. That and their uncanny ability to forecast down to the basis point what their customers are going to give them in widgets every week.
Whereas, I struggle to remember what I had for dinner last night.
So to any Company X’ers, I have this to say:
Current surveys suggest that 70% of you are sleeping with a Company X co-worker. So as you count off into your break-out sessions, look around with the statistical knowledge that of the 10 people sitting in front of you, 7 of them are shagging someone who works for Company X.
Nothing good ever came from powdered eggs and the bacon that’s laying atop 10-day old bread, placed there to soak up the grease. That fruit tray? Yeah. That’s the fruit that was left over from the lunch and learn on 2/22/08.
Please keep track and start posting the 2008 NSM “catch phrase” (I wrote a January 2008 blog on this subject “water will find it’s natural level” 1/9/2009) to javajennifer.com
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