Every "thought post" in slack. Every fkin email. Every google doc. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
Am I the only one that thinks that their copy/pasted ai bullshit is cringe? Imo, it makes the actuall message lose its value. Is leadership really that inept/lazy that they can't communicate using their own words or are they all just suffering from imposter syndrome atp?
Im usually the one to kick off every meeting with a new prospect.
Its usually the Sales SVP (we'll call him Tim), myself, and our prospect on the initial call and I typically start with something like:
"thanks for getting on the call, also joining us is Tim, he leads our Sales operations and our high level introductions like this." (And then I intro the prospect to Tim) and then turn it over to him for the rest of presentation. Pretty straightforward and basic, no one complains, but curious how others here like to kick off their demos.
(We're assuming small talk is already over and we're jumping into the meeting)
I've been in a low-lift or "junior" sales role for a combined total of like, 5 years. SDR/BDR/appointment setter, whatever you want to call it. It's b2b lead generation.
Anyways, I'm considered to be at the top of my game. A lot of reps in this line of work will burn out after year 1-2 but I decided I wanted to anchor down and try to master it. I actually feel that year 4-5 is when you really start to notice bigger shifts in confidence.
Jump to year 5 and im still going strong. Probably better than ever. Base salary + comission puts me at about 105k a year, and for where I live in the U.S , thats been more than enough to provide a good life for my family. I havent missed quota in like 2 years and I have NO desire to advance further in the company. Im just happy in my lane.
In that time, ive tired the team leadership stuff, tried a founding BDR role, have tried to go "above and beyond" but the juice is never worth the squeeze. I'll sometimes take a peek at my manager's schedules...and seeing how chaotic they are, how many useless meetings they need to be in, and how theyre constantly taking heat from upper management, that only further adds to my resolve.
I've had many internal offers. Team leader, project manager, sdr enablement manager, etc. While they pay more- none of those roles ever seem to offer the same flexible, low-stress environment that I enjoy right now. I sign on, do the work, book some meetings, call it a day. BARLEY have to deal with office politics.
I've been asked by my managers why I turn down the offers and i just usually say "im very happy in my current role." But really, i just don't want all the extra work.
Will this ever be seen as a red flag? Do managers view complacency like this differently?
Been working remote for a few years now, overall good company with standard corporate fakery. Some micromanagement and mismanagement. Anyways, a co worker and I were talking shit and decided we'd be better off texting in case the company ever wanted to take a peek at our Slack DMs
Has this ever happened to you or anyone that you know? I haven't seen anything in our policy stating they'll pull the chat data, and I'd think they'd be too busy to actually care about whats going on in the DMs, but you can never be too careful. And I think that theyre ABLE to export that chat data if needed. Anyone ever get in trouble over this?
I’ve been an atheist for over a decade, but sometimes I still “pretend” to be Christian in public. Not in a preachy way or anything weird, I’m not out evangelizing people. I just live in a small town and every now and then I’ll wear clothes with scripture on them or Christian messaging, and when people talk to me about religion, I go along with it.
What’s strange is how differently people treat me when they think I’m Christian.
People open up faster. They trust me more. They’re warmer. More welcoming. It’s like I instantly become part of the in-group.
I started doing it partly out of curiosity, almost like a social experiment because I wanted to see whether religion here functions less as a belief system and more as a social signal. After years of doing this on and off, I kind of think it does.
I don’t even necessarily mean that in a cynical way. people naturally gravitate toward what feels familiar and safe. In a small town, Christianity carries a lot of assumptions with it like family-oriented, trustworthy, moral, grounded, etc.
But it’s created this weird disconnect for me, because intellectually I don’t believe any of it, yet socially I can absolutely feel the difference in how I’m treated when people think I do.
If course part of me feels dishonest for playing along. Another part of me feels like I discovered a cheat code for social acceptance out here
I don’t really know what that says about religion, small towns, or even myself but the difference is pretty real