mr.mcsalesy

Enterprise Account Executive

Valued Contributor

And the "Worst Manager of the Year" award goes to....(drumroll)

Alright - here's how it works. You put in the top three reasons (stories are good...) as to why your current manager should be nominated.

Whoever receives the most upvotes by the end of September, I will figure out a way to get a prize of some sort to you. May the worst manager win!

I'll start:

Three quick examples and reasons why he should be nominated for the award. One thing to note is that our team is experienced enterprise sellers...

1) Killing my deals! A little too "over-helpful" - to the point where prospects are confused, unsure who to go to, emails to prospects that are filled with PARAGRAPHS, and more. He makes it so complicated for buyers to buy.

2) Sat down with me the other day, pulled up my calendar and a teammates calendar side by side and said, "why aren't you as busy as (name)?"....Bro, I'm a top seller / performer, I do my work, I DO NOT need to put stuff on my calendar to appear busy, I don't have time for that. To which he responded, "well let's set aside some time to discuss time management best practices." Literally, can't make this stuff up.

3) Everything has to be a call or a zoom...email doesn't fly.

Let's hear it from you now!

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poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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☕️

1) He is a LinkedIn Clout Chaser. 🤮
2) He repeats what other people say in meetings moments after they've just said it to ensure he has the last word.
3) He "delegates", which actually means he doesn't ever do the shitty parts of his job. He makes things sound SUPER important and gives them to someone else as a "great opportunity to learn and show off your skills".

UserNotFound

Politicker

5

Account Executive

Do you work for Michael Scott??

StrictlyBusiness

Praised Answer

4

Director of Enterprise Sales

Man can you imagine if Michael had a LinkedIn?

Coffeesforclosers

Notable Contributor

4

Director Sales and Market Development

Linkedin clout is like monopoly money, worthless outside of the game, and everything on Linkedin is outside of the game lol

JECU

Opinionated

2

Account Manager / Co-Founder

LOL Do you work for Gravy?

Diablo

Politicker

1

Sr. AE

Hahaha

jefe

Arsonist

0

🍁

Love these types... so helpful

TheQueenofDiamonds

Politicker

0

Account Executive

Oh my, sounds brutal 😂
Let me guess - the entire team has to like every post - or else...

UserNotFound

Politicker

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Account Executive

My boss (company owner) gets drunk at company functions and tells people they’re no good at their job and how amazing he is (has happened to 100% of the women I work with) then will send apology text messages the next day that are completely disingenuous. My boss showed up to attend a meeting with me so drunk he offended the prospect to a point that prospect called me afterwards to tell me how sorry he is that I have to work in that environment.

Gottapumpthosenumbers

Opinionated

1

Biz Dev

Yeesh. This sounds ROUGH. I hope you're paid well lol

UserNotFound

Politicker

6

Account Executive

Lol... not well enough to deal with it. Home-girl is reviewing two offers this week :)

Gottapumpthosenumbers

Opinionated

1

Biz Dev

LFG! Congratulations on the opportunities!

CaneWolf

Politicker

0

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

Hooooly fuck and this is in addition to all the other bullshit? WTF

UserNotFound

Politicker

0

Account Executive

Hahahaha, yeah. It’s a damn roller coaster of emotions. After I escape I’ll write up the full saga… however if you ever get bored watch some videos on narcissist bosses and it will offer up a window into my daily life right now.

CaneWolf

Politicker

1

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

We need to put wherever you work on the "do not work here" list.

Coffeesforclosers

Notable Contributor

1

Director Sales and Market Development

This is shit, grow up manager

goose

Politicker

9

Sales Executive

I like my boss.

jefe

Arsonist

1

🍁

Me too, but I've had some awful ones.

goose

Politicker

1

Sales Executive

We all have. They are everywhere.

jefe

Arsonist

1

🍁

Too true. Funniest is one of the worst I’ve ever had wrote a book on being an amazing boss. So ridiculous

justatopproducer

Politicker

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VP OF SALES -US

He- “sorry i can’t tell you what to do i can only show you so invite me to your meetings”. Then talks for 20 minutes about himself which he thinks prospects care about then tells me see you just need to have some fun with it. Then asks why the prosecta goes dark, they agreed to next steps? Always delegats everything except for meetings with his leadership. Always on vacation and most importantly his schedule is what everyone in the world revolves around… prospect can’t meet when he has time since he wants to micromanage everything too bad, go find more prosoects. This is why it takes 38 touches for our company to set 1st meetings.

Justatitle

Big Shot

3

Account Executive

1.) she walked around with a notepad to note if you had client calls lined up or not
2.) would go into a meeting with her manager come out with a ghost face from getting told what to do and repeat verbatim the bs he told her to do
3.) would tell us to do something and then when it didn’t work would ask why it didn’t work since it must not be her.

ZeroGrit

Valued Contributor

3

VP of Hoping My Emails Find You Well

Can I bookmark this thread so whenever I start to think my boss is an asshole I can read this and feel better?

undercoveroperator

Executive

3

Senior Sales Team Leader

1. shows up 3-minutes to 10-minutes late to EVERY zoom meeting. Sometimes doesn't show at all and joins an internal meeting instead with a text "you can handle this discussion alone, no?"

2. Will talk about specific things during the meeting I ask to refrain from on internal prep calls (talking pricing/timing with a decision maker NOT on the call, pressuring team on timing when I clearly explain their purchase process/timing beforehand).

3. Forcing an AE to reach out to executive leadership for contract/deployment requests - I get immediately rejected and it becomes my fault for it getting rejected. All prev managers I've had will go to battle on my behalf to get approvals on changes/needs from exec leadership.

youKNOW

Politicker

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Sales Manager

Oh man...definitely back when I was working in the mortgage biz. Short man, large Versace shirts, daily LONG and in CAPS motivational emails about "owning the day." Huge dramatic chest bumps with everyone on the floor within 20 feet of him. ZERO actual help with getting a deal done when you needed it though.

JECU

Opinionated

1

Account Manager / Co-Founder

You work with Brandon Bornancin before he started seamless lol

Swiss456

0

Business Development Lead

My "Boss of the Year" handled a VIP client demo of mine while I was on vacation. Upon my return I hear my client's executive team was less than impressed & he is now trying to salvage the relationship internally.

Salesmin

Contributor

0

Solicitor

@WillSell4Commish weston boese

Coffeesforclosers

Notable Contributor

0

Director Sales and Market Development

Plenty of bad bosses out there, i like mine today though he does repeat everything i present to him like his idea, but we are making money and he gives me credit where its due sometimes. However i have had similar managers in this thread and vowed to never be one of them and have been in sales management 5 years now and live up to that vow!

FeelItInMyPlums

Valued Contributor

0

Sales Account Executive

My Boss:
1) Doesnt understand my product technically
2) Doesnt understand the sales motion
3) Has told us he just needs to keep his job til retirement.

Great boss when you want someone to help you sell more!

neversettle

Politicker

0

SDR

I have amazing managers now, thank God! However, I did have a manager that rode with me when I was in Pharma Sales. I was 7 months pregnant and really not feeling well during my sales calls. At the end of the day, he got in my car and told me that I was the lowest rep on the totem pole, that I sucked at my job and that I would be on a PIP soon. I had a total breakdown and my physician put me on bedrest for the remainder of my pregnancy so he legally couldn't touch me. While I was out on maternity leave, he got fired for sexually harrassing another rep. Last I heard, he was selling cars at a used car lot.....lol. Moral of story - don't fuck with pregnant sales reps! AND Karma is just the best damn thing!!!!!

jefe

Arsonist

0

🍁

I wanted to add a story or two but then my hands were shaking with rage remembering some of these twats so I'll settle for reading all these great/terrible stories.

jnpz

Good Citizen

0

Key Account Manager

Had a director that was pretty terrible.

In the interview he sold the job very well, and said the other guys on the team were selling every week, and rolling in inbounds. The first thing i was told when i started was to get out asap, as none of the 6 other guys had sold anything for 6 months (since the teams was started).

Later we found a note showing 2 teams with "current" and a number matching the number of team members, and "June 1st" showing two less people. On May 31st, 4 people were fired. The day before, one of them had asked whether to extend his apartment lease for one year, and was told "yeah, you should do that, nobody is getting fired".

In the interview, he said "no micromanaging", he then ended up micromanaging. "No callcenter", he then put up screens to show number of calls stats.

Another guy was told on his first day "I don't want you here", as he had been hired by a mid-level manager, not the director.

Our market was narrowed from SMB to only small business.

I requested to visit the prospect on a potential 100k deal, was rejected, and had to take PTO to meet them on site.

These are just examples, but they're not even close to conveying how much of an a**hole this guy is in general.

Out of the 4 deals losed by the team over a year, 3 were clawed back. By now everybody has left the team.

TheQueenofDiamonds

Politicker

0

Account Executive

I feel like I worked for your manager in the past, except it was a "she" 😂

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