Unofficial SKO Gossip thread

How was everyone's SKO's? Opening up a thread to discuss any shenanigans or water cooler gossip that happened at everyone's SKO's.


Our's (2000+ SaaS company) was..interesting. Layoffs happened 48 hours before everyone was flying out so made it kind of awkward


CEO didn't show up at all, did a 5 minute virtual speech via zoom to a conference hall of 1000 of us then radio silence from them after that, definitely odd, CRO did most of the evangelism


2 People got laid off for drunken antics at the event, HR is always watching!


Keen to know how everyone else's went!

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DungeonsNDemos
Big Shot
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Rolling 20's all day
Virtual... it was.. not great.
Wellss
Tycoon
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Channel sales
One of the AE's on our outbound team started talking smack to the inbound sales manager (who is extremely liked & respected) about how inbound sales is a joke & only the outbound team knows what they're doing. The outbound AE is still at the company, but he got a stern talking to from several members of leadership
Gasty
Notable Contributor
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War Room Community Manager
whose side were you on?
saaskicker
Celebrated Contributor
0
Enterprise AE
stir. the. pot.
SgtAE
WR Officer
5
AE
Also my luggage didn't make it back with me either..thanks lufthansa!
TennisandSales
Politicker
3
Head Of Sales
holy this layoff 2 days before??? CEO no showed?? DAMN! thats insane
SgtAE
WR Officer
2
AE
Yeah definitely didn't inspire a lot of confidence from the leadership from that move. Honestly not a lot of things we're made clear and we kind of left feeling a little lost IMHO. I found out after SKO we have a hiring freeze, but nothing written in writing everything is hearsay
CuriousFox
WR Officer
3
๐ŸฆŠ
No drama. Everyone was good.
saaskicker
Celebrated Contributor
2
Enterprise AE
Did you not go this year?
CuriousFox
WR Officer
0
๐ŸฆŠ
Touchรจ
Justatitle
Big Shot
3
Account Executive
it's not an SKO unless Brad & Chad corner the CEO at the happy hour to tell said CEO their ideas and then get into a verbal altercation with a bartender
punishedlad
Tycoon
3
๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ
Unfortunately I had to attend ours remotely. Was just an hour and a half ra-ra meeting where we went over last year's metrics and established goals for this year. Nothing crazy, and no night on the town afterwards.
Maximas
Tycoon
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Senior Sales Executive
Didn't have one this year unfortunately.
SgtAE
WR Officer
1
AE
Did it run virtually? I've been at my company just over 2 years now and this was my First SKO and in person event I got to visit. When i joined they promoted the hell out of these in person events in the promo videos advertising it like we always get to meet with each other (we're all remote). That was a lie.. thanks covid.
Maximas
Tycoon
0
Senior Sales Executive
Was supposed to be virtual, but it was called off at the last sec:)
TennisandSales
Politicker
1
Head Of Sales
we dont have a sales only kick off but we do have a kick off and the whole teams gets to come. which is kinda cool.
Going down next week!
SaaSsy
Politicker
1
AE
Oh no, that IS awkward but I guess I canโ€™t be surprised anymore. Ours was actually fun, and only 2 firings as well so think we did good ๐Ÿคฃ
Sunbunny31
Politicker
1
Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
Ours moved to virtual, and nothing dramatic happened as a result.
UserNotFound
Politicker
1
Account Executive
At my team dinner, some new guy joined and was obviously the only individual I didnโ€™t know but he was acting Buddy Buddy with my boss so I went to introduce myself, being tipsy it was more assertive than I meant for it to be โ€œHi! We havenโ€™t metโ€ฆ who you?โ€ Turns out it was my bossโ€™s new boss, new RVP. ๐Ÿซ  when he introduced himself I got flustered and just curtseyโ€™d in response.

Maybe I was more than tipsy?
Sunbunny31
Politicker
2
Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
Made yourself memorable! Hopefully all is fine. :)
SalesinSeattle
Valued Contributor
1
Account Executive
Ours went off without a hitch. We got everybody together on a cruise and the contained environment really helped to mix and mingle the teams together. We acquired 3 companies in the prior 12 months so it was a big focus on everyone working together and cross selling across the client base.

I heard from multiple people they thought it was the best SKO we've ever had...and since I was chair of the planning committee, I'll take it!
Juancallclose
Catalyst
0
Director
Letting people go for drunken chicanery at SKO? Thanks a lot Bin Laden.
SgtAE
WR Officer
1
AE
Might as well thank Hitler instead because I can tell you know the reason they let go one of the AE's is because they thought it would be funny to Nazi salute in front of the German team hahah.
Juancallclose
Catalyst
0
Director
OMG
FeelItInMyPlums
Valued Contributor
0
Sales Account Executive
My female coworker stabbed my male worker. In the hand. Stitches not required but definitely still visible proof!
resultsRimportant
Executive
0
Account Executive
I get to attend mine in the second week of April! Nothing better than having an SKO after the first quarter is over.
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