Comments on: Leaving a Job – A Few Lessons for Management http://inluminent.com/2006/05/28/leaving-a-job-a-few-lessons-for-management/ my comments on business, marketing, advertising, email, CAN-SPAM, selling as a profession, photography, computers and other stuff... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:09:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Drew Moynihan http://inluminent.com/2006/05/28/leaving-a-job-a-few-lessons-for-management/comment-page-1/#comment-7607 Drew Moynihan Tue, 30 May 2006 23:09:12 +0000 http://inluminent.com/2006/05/08/leaving-a-job-a-few-lessons-for-management/#comment-7607 I distinctly remember the same music from a place were you and I worked togther at in the past, unfortunatley it seems to be the status quo for many companies in todays business world. Specifically: <blockquote> My boss promised lots of things he had the responsibility to deliver but didn’t have the authority to promise. My boss’s boss embellished facts (basically lied) to friends of mine and potential clients of ours… and then had the nerve to call it selling. I was given a new sales territory, but wasn’t given the two biggest accounts in my sales territory, even after I asked for them multiple times and made arguments as to why they should have been mine. That planted the seed that said “We don’t trust you to handle this business.” I started to resent management, and wasn’t sure of my decision to work for this company based on the “new organization”. I had a hard time telling myself that “it would get better” when it clearly wasn’t. No one asked me how I was doing until it was too late (ie. three or four weeks after I decided to start looking for a new job). “If you don’t like it, then you should find a new job” multiple times.... </blockquote> Take care of your employees and they will take care of you. I distinctly remember the same music from a place were you and I worked togther at in the past, unfortunatley it seems to be the status quo for many companies in todays business world.

Specifically:

My boss promised lots of things he had the responsibility to deliver but didn’t have the authority to promise.

My boss’s boss embellished facts (basically lied) to friends of mine and potential clients of ours… and then had the nerve to call it selling.

I was given a new sales territory, but wasn’t given the two biggest accounts in my sales territory, even after I asked for them multiple times and made arguments as to why they should have been mine. That planted the seed that said “We don’t trust you to handle this business.”

I started to resent management, and wasn’t sure of my decision to work for this company based on the “new organization”. I had a hard time telling myself that “it would get better” when it clearly wasn’t.

No one asked me how I was doing until it was too late (ie. three or four weeks after I decided to start looking for a new job).

“If you don’t like it, then you should find a new job” multiple times….

Take care of your employees and they will take care of you.

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