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Boston, MA Sales Opportunity
I have always been reluctant to do this but hey, I figured I'd give it a shot.
My old Company, CT Corporation, is looking for an Account Executive based in Boston. We need someone with a minimum 5 years sales experience and some
technology sales would be a plus.
The money is very good. $75k base and $115k in your first year. Man, I wish I was hauling that amount down.
The Sales Manager is an old manager of mine. Great guy and bailed at the last minute on a Blood For Blood show in KC in 02.
U2U me if you know anyone. I also love to pay "referal bonuses". This would be a large fee for my firm so I enjoy sharing the wealth.
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damn, i need to get a real job.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
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This is a good company to work for. You learn a TON and you sell to and work with some pretty influential people. I used to have Fedex as an account
in Memphis. Wonderful group of people. I helped the company "FedEx Ground" qualify to do business in every state. It was a really cool project.
yeah, I'm a nerd like that.
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I love this board. Everyone is cool as fuck and looking out for one another if the opportunity presents its self.
Hope you find the person for the job on here. You are a good dude.
Each aspect of the soul has it's own part to play, but the ideal is harmonious agreement with reason and control.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by defstarsteve
| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
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Thanks guys, I appreciate that. I love helping people find jobs. It is really cool when you can place a good person with a great client. I posted
it here since on Beantown folks may look at it. the chance isn't great but shit, maybe somebody knows somebody. Either way, I appreciate the
comments.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
damn, i need to get a real job. |
i used to have some. just like anything else there's good things and super "suck like" qualities.
there's a lot of money in sales. i wish i could do it. the funny thing is, i can. i worked for a company for 10 years and worked my way up th
ladder and also became known across the entire company which operated in multiple states. my name always came up when it came to "selling".
i spent a lot of time, travelling city to city, teaching people how to sell, how to manage and fixing problems. seriously, sometimes i would be given
my destination, plane, car and hotel room and was simply told, this is the problem, you have 2 weeks, go fix it.
then, i was put in charge of a multi-million dollar account with a well known phone company who now has a chunk of the wireless market. the account
was being mis-managed from above me and below me. whenver i identified the problems i encountered much resistance from both sides. i proved without
a doubt several times that people were cheating, lying etc., but it was always ignored.
eventually the company closed the last location in my area and offered me a severance package. they tried for 2 months to keep me on, get me to move,
send me on tour, but i was too burned out and the severance reflected a 10 year stint.
then, a guy i made miracles for, called me with a job. this company from the east was interested in me for their company. they wanted me to listen
to telemarketing calls and explain what they were doing right or wrong. sounded easy enough and the money was good.
it started going downhill when they wanted to listen to calls where i didn't know what was going on. then i find out that i'm one of the only ones
with actual experience and everyone else is fresh out of college, no experience at all. their website and marketing info said otherwise. i voiced my
opinion. no one cared. i quit.
then, the same guy called me again with a different job. my name had come up this time for my ability to build spreadsheets and analyze and manage
data. everything was cool and so was the money until i was put on an account that outsourced it work to Trinidad. whatever.
then 9-11 hit. these motherfuckers resumed calling the next day. people hate telemarketing anyway and we're talking the day after, people were
getting bullshit calls about bullshit services. people were still missing. many were dead, everyone was in shock. it pissed me off so bad to think
about even one person, waiting by the phone, hoping for some news to only end up hearing some telefucker trying to make a sale.
it's important to understand that this was the only account doing this out of 5 accounts. the other ones waited 2 weeks.
i lost it and bailed. the guy in charge of our group seemed puzzled when i told him why. he even remarked later that he thought i was lying because
"that's a strange reason to quit".
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| Quote: | Originally posted by defstarsteve
| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
damn, i need to get a real job. |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Murk
he even remarked later that he thought i was lying because "that's a strange reason to quit". |
I guess you have to have a soul to understand.
I worked a sleazy sales job (NOTHING like yours above) where it was basically adds in papers stating "free samples" of lotions and all other types of
shit.. When they call in they are told of the small print, shipping cost of $3.95, and a monthly auto shipment every month until it is canceled
(usually $30.00 a month of lotion).. Well, mostly it was old ladies calling in not know what they are getting into and just agreeing with it and
giving their payment info (which will in turn get chrarged the $3.95 plus $30.00 a month till they figure out what to do to cancel).. I worked their
less than a week after I took a call and took the payment knowing damn well this lady did not know what she was agreeing to.
I don't care too much for the world at large, people in general, etc... but I am not about to be a scumbag myself and add to the problems.
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here's another "real job" with good money story.
i got hired in the customer service department for a company that provided a service that would allow you to print postage from your home. even
though the post office offered this for free on their site, this company somehow got many people to pay a monthly fee for it.
most of the people calling were pissed because they say they got tricked into signing up for a free ipod, however everyone that called in was pissed
because the wait times to talk to a person were 30-45 minutes and in some case 1hr+. that's a long time to be on hold when you just want to cancel
something you thought was free. it was horrible. the company said it was a big priority to cut down the wait time, but they refused to hire anyone
else.
then, someone came up with the idea to make a way for them to cancel their accounts online. the first day it was put in place, wait times dropped to
5 minutes, worst case, and most people we getting through in less than a minute. the reps actually had time to breathe in between calls. things were
starting to look good and then they took it down.
it turned out that the only way this company could make money was to employ shady marketing techniques, tricky terms and conditions and then make sure
anyone who wanted to cancel would have to wait a minimum of 30 minutes. the BBB site had an insane number of complaints filed even though the company
was only a couple years old.
i told them i didnb;t want to represent that type of operation. once again, they were puzzled. 2 years later, i saw a guy i worked with there and he
said nothing had changed, nothing at all.
sometime having a conscience is a pain in the ass.
fuck a real job, i just need a good job that i'm not ashamed of.
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so, murk, what are you doing now?
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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So many "sales" organizations are shady. I worked at one where they encouraged us to lie to Customers. I quit on the spot.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
so, murk, what are you doing now? |
looking for a good job that i'm not ashamed of while working little music related side jobs etc.
mix a conscience with no college degree, plus the fact that i'm not a fake kiss-ass and that equals temporary hard times and society disillusionment.
luckily i planned ahead a bit.
i completed recording school a while back, but i don't really fit into that scene too well either. i am far from giving up on it, but when you meet a
few people who have been doing what you what to do long enough to be real good and those people are hollow shells with the personality of a carrot, it
tends to discourage you.
not a real job story, but an LA studio one.
out of recording school, i scored an internship with one of the bigger studios here in town. the other dudes that worked there were some good
ass-kissers, but they talked shit about the owner and the manager constantly and did not take the job seriously. if the owner showed up and wanted
something done, i would do it. the other guys would say things like "fuck him, we'll do it later, if we feel like it", behind his back, of course.
while working for free, i improved several processes which then solved routine problems that came up frequently. i also did some very dirty, gritty
work for them. after 5 months of working for free, i was hired on at $7/hr.
never in my life have i been yelled at (yes, YELLED) so many time for things I DID NOT DO. for 2 weeks after (guy's name) left, i was constantly
criticized for the way HE had the left certain things. at the very same time he was considered the "gold standard" and there were alwyas comments
about how great it was when he was there. HUH?!?
i was yelled at for buying grapes with seeds, for the coffee tasting bad. i was once yelled at because the singer from Orgy had started a session at
6pm the previous day and when the studio manager came in at noon, these guys were still in there, tweaked out. this was my fault.
one time, i offered to take some reels of tape to FedEx on my way home. they were going to have another guy do it, but it was literally on my way
home. the instructions were take to to the FedEx at (location) and drop it off. i did exactly that, but the next day i had to listen to full blown
screaming because the package hadn't arrived. even the other studio manager said that it was in no way my fault. didn't matter.
another time, i was given the studio credit card to make some purchases. every place i went to asked me for ID and wouldn't let me use it. when i
came back with the news, the yelling began. the manager gave the card to another guy and sent him out to the same places. he had no problems. when
he comes back the yelling includes things like, "well, i guess (guy's name) is a fuckin' magician. we wouldn't have hired you if we knew you weren't
a fuckin' magician."
while the studio would go empty for days at a time, and longer, the studio manager would do NOTHING but sit in her office, surf the net, argue with
her boyfriend, take poops and talk to her recovering coke-head buddies all day. this didn't stop her from making it seem like it was our fault that
the studio was empty when she had to cut our hours.
soon after, the owner's wife had a friend that was recently involved in some drug bust and wanted to give her an internship at the studio. this girl
was lazy and had no experience, training, recording education, nothing. she was lazy. she would ask what she could do, but then do it half assed, so
i would have to go do it again, for her. she showed up everyday and drank coffee and smoked cigarettes, THAT'S IT. so, i stopped giving her things
to do. i just did it all myself.
somehow, this girl turned the owner and the manager against me. even though i had turned their studio into a good running machine and had done
everything i was asked, and then some. the place was cleaner, more efficient and i had created systems that left little room for error. i never had
one one complaint or negative experience with ANY of the clients. the opposite actually. lazygirl would even go so far as to make fun of me for
being so thorough.
for example, the studio had this long indoor alley/driveway behind the building. the owner hated when this was dirty. the other guys would grab a
street broom, create clouds of dust until their arms hurt and just kind of changed the patterns of dirt. i used the vacuum cleaner, erased the dirt
etc in a fraction of the time and there would be a noticeable difference. lazygirl would smoke her cigarette and say things like, "do you have anal
OCD? hahaha."
one day, one of the other dudes (who happens to be fucking lazygirl) tells me that opinion of me is getting low. i ask why. the only reason given
"you don't seem like you want to be here", "you're too serious" and "(girl's name) says you won't let her do anything". then, a talk comes from the
manager, same reasons. so, i quit my other job at a record store to focus on the studio. i do my best to be nice to lazygirl and put on my smiley
face. shortly after, i'm told they had to let me go because they were tearing down the other studio to make a parking garage.
i've got plenty of other "bad dream" job stories and yes, i believe i am cursed. i try to keep my head up, but it's hard.
damn, long ass post.
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fuck that. entertainment related jobs can be cool or they can completely SUCK.
nobody's ever been foolish enough to yell at me at any job. i've gotten hot with a boss or two in the past, but they were people i had good
professional and personal relationships with. it was understood that the raised voices weren't anger, just passion about the decisions that were
being made. it often they off the people in my department, thought. they'd be like, "you were really laying into boss guy." at which point boss guy
would come around the corner and be like, "bd, ready for a beer?" that's a great working relationship.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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oh, and i forgot to mention, within a month or 2, lazygirl was promoted to studio manager.
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I have many stories like Murk's.... it sucks being the smart responsible guy surrounded by douchebags.
Back to the original topic of this post, I'd consider that job if it wasn't in Baaahston... Yankee fans don't mix in too well up there. You can take
the man out of the Bronx but.... you know the rest.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Muttley
I have many stories like Murk's.... |
well cough one up and make me feel a little bit better about life. 
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