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Sales rep makes awkward first impression with new Senior Director

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  • Sales rep smiles awkwardly at new Sales Director, who looks put off by him.
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  • Today I messed up telling a director with 1200 reports the corporate version of hurry up

    I'm on the sales team and it's been quite interesting to offer and learn all new services etc. I happened. to have been the first one in our geography to find a client opportunity that could be done by our teams abroad so after reviewing the proposal
  • with our local CFO he asked me to validate how billing would work when it comes to projects done with teams outside of our geography. Fuck, I didn't think of this. Client deadline is fast approaching.
  • I Talk to the tech guy who made the technical part of the offer and he tells me he doesn't know and to get in touch with person XYZ. I send a quick teams message to XYZ. She quickly replies. "Hey
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  • PortugueseRoamer, nice to meet you, sure let me check." I thank her for answering quickly and say. "Please do note this is very time sensitive as we have a deadline".
  • So my company has been acquired by a large multinational which is huge in what we can bring to clients and sell them in terms of services.
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  • 30 minutes go by... Nothing... 1 hour goes by... Still nothing... I give her a phone call, no answer. Time to shot a message;
  • "Hey, any news on this?? Quick reminder that its time sensitive." Another person answers the email chain. Thank god finally.
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  • Boss smiles at sales rep as they go over charts together.
  • I open teams again on my conversation to thank her and let her know we got an answer only to open the organization tab and see 1200 reports. Shit, way to make a good first impression.
  • TL;DR: Hasty sales guy thinking of his paycheck disregards common courtesy and tells person blocking his work to hurry up as a client is waiting, only to find out the "blocker" is very high in the corporate chain.
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  • This person added a little epilouge

    Edit: Director just answered me "No worries, just make some sales." and invited us to do a virtual meet and greet. Thank god she's super nice.
  • Edit 2: As with everything in life everyone has an opinion about everything I did wrong here. But I did receive some excellent advice from some people which I would like to thank. To all the haters | hope you guys have a
  • lovely weekend. There's more things to worry about besides some guys' fuck up in his job :)
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  • Office worker and his boss laugh together.

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