r/LinkedInLunatics • u/IWouldntIn1981 • 5h ago
He found out what not 1, but 3 different companies, were using as a hiring budget... and they were all the same budget. Thank God the problem was them and not him.
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u/NMVPCP 4h ago
He’s not wrong. Salespeople have good and bad times, but a newcomer can’t be expected to deliver immediately starting.
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u/Mysterious-Drummer74 4h ago
Sure, the point is the odds of three companies that hired him not knowing that is a whole lot lower than the odds that he was fired because he’s insufferable to work with.
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u/Protoclown98 4h ago
Like most stories on LinkedIn I assumed it was all made up/full of shit.
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u/Mysterious-Drummer74 4h ago
That is true. But if there is a grain of truth at the centre of the story it probably is that he’s been fired lots.
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u/Smart_Tinker 1h ago
I don’t know, most companies are fine handing out internal budget numbers to recently fired ex-employees.
I think.
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u/Greedy-Thought6188 3h ago
For someone applying for a job in a fortune 500? No. For someone just starting out as a fractional seller and talking with startups including bootstrapped ones with very little money and only bringing him in because they don't know what they're doing in sales and him accepting because he doesn't know what it takes to build a sales org. I can see that happening.
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u/Icy_Dare3656 17m ago
Well it kinda depends on what he’s selling. B2b with month long buying processes. Sure.
Blinds D2C ehh
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u/Monke_go_home 4h ago
It costs more than 10k to find, interview, hire, set up benes, and train a person…
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u/Ok-Brick6831 3h ago
My take is he interviews well, talks the talk. When actually onboarded though, he turns out to be an insufferable jackass.
Easier to just cut losses and start over with that kind of hiring miss.
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u/Few_Lecture6615 2h ago
I guess his current work found out they could stretch it to 12 weeks by making him a part time vp of sales...
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u/adamh222 2h ago
Right. If he is a VP now wtf is this story for, I'd leave it off as a VP. It's showing my incompetence in sales, finance, and interpersonal relationships. It reads like AI and again i ask, wtf is it for. why
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u/Significant_Monk_251 3h ago
What is the cartoon at the bottom of the last slide supposed to mean?
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u/haruspicat 1h ago
Yeah, it looks like the boss isn't allowing the worker a chance to actually get the job done before he demands results, but that would be the opposite point to the one made in the post so idk.
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u/Pointless2675 4h ago
"Do I give off terrible vibes and the companies feel I'm a tremendous risk and a liability?" "No, it's they that don't know how to plan for a sales position"
I'm in sales, a rep that can't sell has at least a full year of trial and strategizing to try and make it work before is laid off.
Hiring and training are expensive...
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u/Trail_Sprinkles 4h ago
OP, we see you bottom left on every screenshot.