Hubby and TF were riding back from a show together yesterday. The conversation turned to the concerns I blogged about. Hubby made his irritation, regarding the lack of hours being put in by TF, known.
The reasons TF comes in at 9:30 and leaves 5-5:30pm:
1. He has a baby to get to daycare
2. He is a morning person and likes to run in the am
3. His wife has to be to work early (she is a teacher)
4. He has to pick the baby up from daycare
5. And the best......he was suppose to work from home, and if he did how would hubby know when he went to work anyway
Yep sounds like good reasons to me. Definitely has earned a bigger commission percentage in my book.
I think my husband's response was: Are you a nut case? Why would you say something like that, especially to me. You need to step up and do your job etc. etc. etc. I really am not sure what else was said because I had my own retort going in my mind and I missed what Mark said.
TF was in the office at 9am today, instead of 9:30. I guess that's an improvement
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4 comments:
Response #5 is akin to "I was a slacker when you hired me, didn't you know that?" followed by rolling eyes...
If a sales person produces the sales, they are great. If they don't produce the sales they suck, right?
Baby, no baby, exercise, wife's job, blah, blah, blah. No need to hear any of it if the numbers are there. Who can refute that? Could more pay at risk and less base salary motivate? Slide scale on the commission - low base, better and better percentages on new business, etc? I'll bet he wouldn't research Disney trips on the job if he had to sell more to go. (I'm so mean)
I don't know what the hell I'm talking about... except I used to be a business performance analyst / consultant. I told people what time it was on their own watch for a living at one time...
What a racket, huh?
skylers dad, you are correct. That is what happens sometimes when a person works for a large company. They can hide, slack off, and be a professional paper schuffler. He can't now. The worst part is he thinks he is doing a good job.
Anon: His numbers are ok, nothing great, he lacks motivation, very content to sit, until he is told what to do. Not a sales personality. His sales numbers equal his base pay at this time. But we carried him until recently. Now we would like to make back some of the money we invested in him.It is possible for us to do that, if he would go out sell. The situation is frustrating. My husband offered TF a percentage of the entire business commissions with numbers that TF had to meet. He declined the offer, to risky TF said. He would have made 15k more last year had he gone with the program, instead he got a small bonus each quarter based on his numbers.
The bottom line is my hubby has to become a hard ass and spell out expectations. The plan is to require more detailed sales reports, and for me to review them, follow up with TF and MH, and keep hubby in the loop with guidance and suggestions from him. Kind like BIG BROTHER watching, not what we really want to do, but Ithink something we have to do.
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