CRAZY EXPERIENCE

How you doin truck loaders?


I want to share "crazy experience" of mine. I want to understand if there are more people that can relate to that or maybe even had crazier sales shit in their lives.


So, 9 years ago I relocated from Lithuania to Cyprus for a job. It was an Israeli company and most of my colleagues were from Israel. I spent 2 years there.


I was offered an AE position, but once I came they told me that you have to start like everybody else - which means go through training and become an SDR and only if you are 3 months straight in top 3 out of all SDR's(there was around 65 at that time), only then we will promote you to AE.


I didn't had much choice, was far away from my country and with no cheddar in my pocket. So, I said Okay- let's do it.


There where 65 of hungry animals in the same room from different parts of the world - India, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Romania and so on). Ohhh boy, we were dialing, ohhhh boy, we were dialing like a motherfuckers all day long.


Thank god for my guts and luck I've got promoted to AE in 5 months. Then I joined a team where it was 20 Israelis, few jewish Americans and me.


I'll keep the second part of the story how did everything go once I became an AE there for the next time. It was really wild with the parties and shit - "Movie like"


Now, has anyone encountered similar situations that you need to loose your health and grind it out with your teeth to get that promotion?

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AnchorPoint
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Guess I missed the "crazy" part...
dudesellsdeeptech
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I guess I'll write more about it later on. Just trying to have a discussion and see if it's even interesting to someone.
CuriousFox
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That's pretty horrendous, but not all that crazy.

Shitty experience though.
Justatitle
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Seems pretty standard, survival of the fittest
medhardwaredr
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Yikes
Revenue_Rambo
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Sounds like an average day at SalesForce
dudesellsdeeptech
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Jeez, I don't know how people handle that for a long time. Longer then 6 months haha.
SaaSguy
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My first job was a boiler room i made 350 cold call days but got promoted to AE. Used the AE title to jump to a better company and never looked back.
dudesellsdeeptech
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Haha very very similar situation just spent there as an AE for 1,5 years.
Kosta_Konfucius
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Not an uncommon story of competing for a promotion
DollHairs
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crazy!
CuriousFox
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Truck loaders is a new one for me ๐Ÿ˜†
dudesellsdeeptech
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hahahha no offence tho.
champchamp
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How is life for foreigners in Israel? Particularly for the indians and saudis you mentioned that were part of the team?
Are you jewish? Curious because I have heard terrible stories from foreigners visiting Israel, especially if you are not white.
dudesellsdeeptech
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Probably the stories you heard are true. Israelis actually believe that they are the chosen ones and rest of the world is weaker.

They usually talk and treat you politely but you can't trust them. And yes what I noticed that they are extremely racist, they just hide it but if you spend more and more time around Israelis, you start noticing.

I won't say that everyone there are like that, I met a lot of cool and nice Jewish people too. But oh boy, most of them surely like to manipulate others.
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