antiASKHOLE

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Hurricane Ian Made Me Miss Monthly Quota

Hey people! So I was all lined up to crush my monthly quota which is a huge deal at my company as we have large Monthly Rev goals. and I had 7 meetings that I knew 4 of the deals would close.

Then the power went out and I can barely even post this due to sucky bandwidth and no internet access.

With that being said, I was forced to cancel all of my appointments as I can't get into SF without a VPN in order to get things done.

I'm a little annoyed, but bottom line I am happy my family is safe.

Have any of you had a weird circumstance cause you to miss quota that you had ZERO control over?

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Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Were you the only one affected or many? Did you speak to you manager and try explaining the consequences of this inevitable circumstance?

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

I was the only one close this month out of 5 AEs. I haven’t been able to reach out to my manager due to lines and my phone going in and out of SOS and dropping service.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

I will always remember Feb 2020, being on the verge of closing the biggest deal in the my career. We even got verbals and I was planning how I was going to spend the money. Then covid happened

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Glad you're ok. Your managers had better be understanding.

Back in 2017, I did have one deal slip due to the 2017 Wine Country fires, as my primary contact was evacuated, but it did get done shortly thereafter.

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

I lost a couple of deals / got pushed for the next Q because of the hurricane.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I'm glad y'all are ok. The devastation in Ft. Meyers and Sanibel is unreal.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Yeah, I’m thankful that things are safe overall. I have a few friends in the Ft Myers area and they were protected through it all

Coastal_crusher

Politicker

Sales Director

Hope your are ok my friend!<br><br>I once had a quota smashing deal lined up for Q4, a couple days before Christmas they ghost a meeting. I got an email saying that there was an explosion at their factory and everything was called off :(

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

No issues up in Canada, but that sucks.

That being said, you have a very good reason for it. Hopefully you don't catch any flack from management.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Ha yeah, just found out my power won’t be on until Sunday night at the earliest. Oh well I guess.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Ouch, hope you've got food, water, booze etc. to last you.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Lol no booze in my house.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Is that by choice or just an unfortunate situation?

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

That is a choice. Alcoholism runs deep in my family so I chose to not be tempted.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Then that's a smart choice, many aren't strong enough to make it.

SoccerandSales

Big Shot

Account Executive

This affected both our reps in Florida and any deals on the table there as well

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Damn! That is terrible!

TheIncarceration

Politicker

SDR Manager

Glad you're safe! On a positive note, at least you'll get to start the next quarter on a high note

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

Literally just got power and wifi back today. I feel bad for everyone in Fort Myers and Cape Coral with how much damage was done.
My whole week was shot from this storm, but I'll take these first world problems over any devastation I'm seeing from this storm.

saaskicker

Celebrated Contributor

Enterprise AE

Yeah a few years ago there was a global pandemic that shut the world down that really through me for a loop.

MeowMeow

Politicker

Senior Enterprise Account Executive

Damn. I’m so sorry. That’s really unfortunate but what is most important is that you’re safe. If your job doesn’t see it that way, the war room would like to have a word with them.

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Hurricane Ian Made Me Miss Monthly Quota

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