Weirdest thing a new hire has done?

About 3-4 years ago, a new hire was handed to me from the lovely folks at HR, let's call him John. My responsibilities at the time were to train & develop everyone in my territory as well as do my own sales. I could tell John was a bit odd right off the bat but didn't want to make any hasty judgements. We went out cold calling some local businesses and he was more awkward than Kevin Spacey in a room full of adults. After a few days of training, I left him to go out on his own and begin closing deals. The very next day, I receive a phone call from John letting me know that he literally pissed himself in front of a customer. Let me tell you, there isn't any sort of leadership training that prepares you for this phone call. Somehow, this didn't lead back to HR, the customer never issued a complaint, and that was the end of it. Never saw John again, I hope he got whatever he was dealing with worked out.


New to the community but thought this would be an interesting/entertaining question to ask anyone that's been tasked with getting a new hire up to speed on selling whatever it is that you were selling.



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ZebraStripe
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Sr Sales Director
WOW.. pissed himself... sounds like he has some deep rooted mental and social issues.  Probably not best for sales!

I'll go; not someone who worked under me, but started on my team and was fired in 2 months.  Long story short, we worked at a start up in NYC that had all the trappings... ping pong, video games, endless food and drinks, etc.  Needless to say he took advantage.  Fast forward 2 weeks into his job and he was key'ing in during the weekends and smashing food blackout drunk.  He did it a second time, and invited a date with him and had sex in the office.  This somehow wasn't the last straw, and our CFO gave him one last chance.  It didn't work, and he was found passed out on a Monday morning after a long Sunday night.  Really great sales guy, horrible judgement.  Hope he's got his shit together now.
SlanginDeals
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Regional Account Manager
I'm shocked management gave them as many chances as they did lol
ZebraStripe
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Sr Sales Director
Same.

SalesPharaoh
Big Shot
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Senior Account Executive
Damn that guy was definitely going through shit.
wahmsales
WR Officer
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SDR
I have this habit of googling the new hires to learn more about them. Well one guy's blog came up in a search. And it was a mixture of how to sell, and how to pick up women. He wrote about how he was bringing home 28 women in a month. This might not be so bad if the customer base wasn't mostly older women who would be digusted by that behaviour.

The worst part is that from what I could tell in his two weeks on the team, he was horrible at sales. Makes me wonder if he was exaggerating about his sexual prowess as well.

I told my manager about the blog but they weren't allowed to fire him for it. Fortunately, he was acting like an asshole to the CEO so he got canned anyway.
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Just started new job as a SDR and was sold a bag of lies in the interview. Help please!

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