We have sales quotas.
The economy is in the crapper.
As such we have been missing our goals. Mind you we've been selling pretty steadily and even beat last year's numbers in a couple of areas, but we've still missed the goals.
Why is this?
Well we weren't making goals as of August, so corporate decided in their infinite wisdom to RAISE the goals, apparently thinking this would be some kind of "kick in the butt" for us to get our numbers up.
Fast forward to last week,
Goals still aren't being reached, though as before our sales are still decent. Corporate is still not satisfied, so what do they do to us?
If you guessed "raised the goal again" you win today's prize!
I just don't understand this, why do they think that raising some silly number is going to make us magically sell more stuff. You can argue that they could threaten to fire us if we don't make the goals, but that won't fly when NO ONE makes the ridiculously high goals they set for us. If they fired everyone who missed goal, they would lose a lot of good people and they know it.
The economy is in the crapper.
As such we have been missing our goals. Mind you we've been selling pretty steadily and even beat last year's numbers in a couple of areas, but we've still missed the goals.
Why is this?
Well we weren't making goals as of August, so corporate decided in their infinite wisdom to RAISE the goals, apparently thinking this would be some kind of "kick in the butt" for us to get our numbers up.
Fast forward to last week,
Goals still aren't being reached, though as before our sales are still decent. Corporate is still not satisfied, so what do they do to us?
If you guessed "raised the goal again" you win today's prize!
I just don't understand this, why do they think that raising some silly number is going to make us magically sell more stuff. You can argue that they could threaten to fire us if we don't make the goals, but that won't fly when NO ONE makes the ridiculously high goals they set for us. If they fired everyone who missed goal, they would lose a lot of good people and they know it.
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