Mostly true and all fair criticism.
I pretty much lost my mind when this all happened. I handled it poorly. I apologize, especially to
@Joe Bryant. I got all bent out of shape.
I had a wonderful job that was both flexible and rewarding. It was expected that you produce but we didn’t have set hours and could work remotely as much as we pleased. We were all doing well and producing.
Then the tracking came.....
We were never told anything by our immediate boss about how many hours we were expected to be on the road. Our senior VP literally stated: “Look guys, the tracking isn’t to busy anyone’s balls, we just don’t want anyone sitting home for half the day every day.” It was suggested that everyone should be on the road no later than 9:00-10:00AM. (Our hours are 8:30-4:15).
The following week the VP starts calling people at 9:00 AM asking them why they haven’t left their house yet.
Friday of that week we are all scolded, told we are on the hot seat and told that it is expected that we are all in our cars for the entire 8 hours, no exceptions.
On top of the tracking they now wanted daily reports of the names and addresses of everyone we speak with so that our reports can be validated with what the tracking report spits out. We have weekly call-in updates to discuss what we’ve done since last week, which is all documented (and validated
) in our daily reports!!!!!
That Friday he tells my brother in law that he may need to terminate people and I am one of them! This obviously upset my BIL and he suggested that something is wrong, that it’s well known that I am a hard worker and that a meeting should be called and everyone brought in to discuss.
YES!!!!! Finally!!! PLEASE CALL THIS MEETING!!
But nooooooo, Monday our boss calls my BIL and backs off his comments and says that a meeting won’t be necessary.
So that’s why I lost my ####. A few years ago I left a great job and company because of a new awful boss/poor leader (who was let go after I left) to a great job that was flexible. Then this job went to crap.
Lol, they won’t even give us WiFi in our cars. We all have to use our phone hotspot for our laptops!!!! So now I’m a traveling salesman who loves out of a mobile office which is a crappy Chevy Malibu!!!!!!!!
Needless to say production is way down and moral is low.