Unreasonable expectations from management??
I started as a PRO Sales Specialist 6 months ago coming into the position 3 months into the year, with my only prior experience being sales (I knew basically nothing about construction and had a very basic understanding of lumber and building materials) I have nearly half a million in sales now and over 45 credit card apps. (Which is huge for my store as the person below me in credit apps has only 13 and the two people above me are only ahead by 10 or 20ish cards and had a 3 month head start)
For all intents and purposes I THINK I’m doing relatively okay, but I’m constantly being passive aggressively threatened to be written up for not meeting sales goal. The other two associates next to me have nearly 20 years of combined experience in PRO and construction and selling and are both on track to hit or nearly hit 2 million in sales.
I haven’t pushed back on managements sly comments that boil down to “We aren’t going to write you up just YET” because they haven’t officially written me up for “lack of performance” but I think it’s ridiculous to compare me to my more experienced associates and expect me to produce as much sales as them in the short amount of timeframe I’ve been here.
Oh did I mention that I received basically none of the formal weeks long pro training and basically had to learn on the fly from watching my coworkers and the comments about performance started ONLY 3 MONTHS into my position?
To reiterate I feel like for someone who only started a little less than half a year ago, 3 months into the year, for me to have over 45 cards and half a million in sales is good and it’s a load of crock that I’m getting pressured to perform at a level that can really only be achieved with time or with an insane amount of volume going through the store (which we do NOT have)
Am I right to feel this way????