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How are you supposed to budget with so many draws, and not knowing if you are going to have to payback all of that money?

Portillo's has implemented significant layoffs at its Oak Brook headquarters. The restaurant chain reduced its corporate and field management staff by 18%. This decision was described as a "strategic reset" by the company. The layoffs affected 140 employees at the corporate offices. The company cited lower sales across its restaurants as the reason for these cuts.

Oak Brook, Illinois

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/portillos-announces-layoffs-at-suburban-headquarters/3971407/

St. Louis County voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition U, a local use tax on out-of-state online purchases. This proposition was estimated to generate $100 million annually for the county. The defeat leaves the next county executive with the challenge of balancing the budget without this revenue. County Executive Sam Page warned that without new revenue, police officers may face layoffs. Page has proposed raising property taxes or re-introducing an online sales tax in November.

St. Louis, MO

https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/08/05/after-stl-county-rejects-online-use-tax-page-proposes-new-taxes-warns-police-layoffs-if-nothing-is-done/

New data reveals that sales professionals are increasingly hesitant to join companies that have recently experienced layoffs. This trend significantly impacts hiring decisions, as candidates now prioritize stability and trust over potential opportunities. A vast majority of interviewed candidates expressed reluctance to consider roles at organizations with a history of job cuts. This suggests a shift in candidate perception, where layoffs are viewed as indicators of instability and leadership concerns. Employers must now focus on rebuilding candidate confidence to attract top sales talent.

New York, NY

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/quota-crushers-agency-releases-new-internal-sales-recruitment-data-1036412135

To anybody out there. Be honest, not discouraging, I have another job opportunity with ATT. It would be a field service rep, you go and sell to customers that have appointments for internet install. The pay sounds great, does anybody know anything about taking this job?

It's pretty entertaining to see how the short sales have increased on OTEX since July 15. Tomorrow might be fun.

Considering an offer for a sales job selling firstnet, fiber and other services to government accounts for those of you that have been with AT&T for more than 5 years what type of job do you have and do you see a career path for advancement?

Heard sales and the BU are going to get hit pretty hard and truth to that?

Nothing like delivering a 900m quota for PS and laying off project management, consultants and all of ps sales. Hate tac well hope you love them now because partners always misconfigure

What a day for Dell! they subjected the entire sb in round rock to a pie eating contest like the Mandingo fights from Django unchained. while they put the entire sales force on a draw. MD would've walked in like a plantation master and started throwing his coins at us like beggars

So how’s the troops enjoying the whacked out new OT Salesforce?

Apart from being unable to quote easily or quickly, needing multiple approvals for list price quotes, an inability to intelligently search for products, processing orders literally like pulling teeth and the data being FUBAR if you are authorised to view it. On a sales tool that we never train people on that’s the backbone of a sales organisation.

it’s all going rather swimmingly don't you think?

Sales have been in a steady decline for several years. Customers are buying less, spending less, and coming back less. Our foot traffic has halved in the last 12 months. I was certain we'd be closed in the latest wave, and yet we're still here. How bad is it in other stores if we're still standing?

A new piece from Bloomberg makes the case, comparing the Tesla vehicle to the misfortunes of Ford's Edsel, which was first introduced in 1957 and discontinued just two years later. After spending years building up hype for the car, Ford predicted selling 200,000 units in its first year, but ended up selling less than a third of that.

That's comparable to expectations versus reality of the Cybertruck. In fact, the Cybertruck is actually doing worse in key ways. Tesla's annual sales target was 250,000 units, but it didn't even crack 40,000 sales in its first year. And like the Edsel, it's sold less with each successive year, with barely 7,100 registered in the US in 2026 so far, according to S&P Global Mobility data — despite Musk juicing those figures by selling Cybertrucks to his own companies.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/looking-cybertruck-biggest-flop-automotive-145559135.html

I’ve been hearing mixed rumours that we’re just going to be paid as if we hit 90% of our target? Is this true?

Sure, may be great for some people who didn’t achieve. But myself and I few others I know are expecting big pay outs with commission from the accelerators for exceeding our targets.

Are we just not gonna get paid out on all of that and it was effectively all for nothing?

Wonder if DO is bringing any more people that Frontier wanted to can. He brings over these people that sit there and say Hi to a team one time. Be like im going to be engaged once a month and then you never see them again. Oh look another meeting with leadership turnover. Guess someone exceeded their KPI on word salads. DO should focus more on the actual employees instead of not understanding sales and long winded speeches.

Does anyone know how much we spend on FIFA?

It is actually impacting sales?

I keep seeing executives posting about how great is was (as they attend all the events) but they never mention if it is actually helping sales.

A Miami beverage distributor is implementing significant changes to its business operations. The company is integrating artificial intelligence and digital technologies into its commercial strategy. These advancements are occurring concurrently with ongoing reductions in its workforce. This strategic shift aims to modernize the company's approach to market engagement. The firm is committed to this dual path of technological adoption and personnel adjustments.

Miami, Florida

https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2026/07/17/southern-glazers-expands-ai-driven-sales-layoffs.html

The sales manager cowards have all awoken from their coffins and have been unearthed - they cannot handle the pressure from the CRO and are funneling down the pressure. New VP nice guy but dud and already rolling out day 0 day 1 day 30 day 90 forecasting methods starting August and he thinks this is going to fix the horrid decline of this abomination of a company. SRD Kb lost her marbles and never make her number once as rep or dir or SRd she fire so many reps and replace with all duds already selling nothing what a joke

they all are cowards now writing big AI gen threaten emails to engineers support staff sales everyone

these are all big joke ppl

cro is biggest joke the tech industry has ever seen nobody gives a rats a-s about him or his life story or troubles no one like you! Leave cro!

Just cause Saks is gone .We thought we'd get a bump in business .it hasn't happened.
Curious if other markets are having the same. Minus Boston. Course Neimans store there closed

Hello there,
Are there any May Company legacy people that can give us the 411 on what happened to May Company star program (Diamond star...etc.) If memory serves, this was connected to sales and hospitality. Isn't that right ?

Are SEs going to become AEs and AEs will become LRed?
Seems that way to me with the direction of tech. Teachings sales to engineers is easier than teaching engineering to sales ppl. With agents, I see a push to consolidate this to a single role. sink/swim ppl. An overlays and CX...good luck survirving Agentic-pocolypes

We have lost market share for years so now LFG has been rolled out moving many specialists to the portfolio teams. Are they replacing the failed portfolio sales and engineering leadership at all levels that are responsible for this.

Remember, it was you who moved the ball for the company. It was the front line employee who made a difference to the customer base. It was you that made VZW. Not the so called decision makers. That being said, the best way to combat this is to all go work for a competitor, and bring what you brought to make VZW great. Let’s take VZW down by stacking the competition with highly driven, winning-cultured players in the industry.

Are SEs being "pooled"? I don't think I will have the same success if SEs are pooled and not 1:1 with us.

Enrique make it clear that we're not for sale! Not for sale!

Why they keep making this limited edition sh-t that doesn't sell!?

Come on AT&T! Can u get someone 3rd party companies into Louisiana and stack these Fiber sales and more! Not only thank but doin door to door knocks inside the cities which is against the law! Sounds like a great idea for another class action lawsuit!

Somehow I am seeing that Dell is doing very well financially, their stock and value is the highest it's ever been, same about revenue. Otherwise I am worrying about the constant layoffs I have seen

I am currently interviewing for a Inside Sales Associate role in the NGSA in Hopkinton, MA and would love to hear some insights. Would you take the role if given?

Any word on whether more sales layoffs are expected? Seems like the team has already been reduced quite a bit. Curious how much more can be cut before there’s not much left.

Too all MOW who work like dogs and all the sales reps and now RTM's who act like MOW dont do there jobs then how about you merchandise 400 cases daily and have messes left by lack of merchandisers at every store due to bieng understaffed, see what you can sell in, theres no time to even rotate or do backstock, the only way this company will ever be successful is if it hires enough people to do the job right, and they won't so the cycle continues. Get out and go to companies that respect hard workers. Tired of reps talking bs when they dont do half as much as most MOW on any given day.

For the rtms already in this role around the country, how much merchandising are you guys actually doing? Are any territories fully staffed with merchandisers? Are your merchandisers selling in when you are off doing the rms responsibilities?

Anybody here have insight into actual subscription sales? I was laid off from Ford in 2022 and have been at a mediocre job for a couple years but have an opportunity involving subscription sales for a competitor. Not sure if it would be worth leaving an okay job for a risky job even for a good bit more $$$.

I know I don’t pay for too many subscriptions myself.

The leader of the largest division of Canon USA has tunnel vision and is simply focused on spreadsheets and not the real problems that trouble WTS.

If you want to other people to help sales out start off by looking in the mirror. What have you done for the WTS sales group since you took over in January?

For starters we have seen more price increases to both hardware and service while you admit the market it declining 5%-15% annually. You want us to sell more IT services but you don’t want to pay us. We can’t make more than a 2% override these days and our income is significantly decreased YOY. We then got stuck using this awful product called Google. Let’s not address the fact that not one person has acknowledged this was a great move. We simply don’t talk about it anymore because your mother told you if you have nothing nice to say don’t say it.

So when you tell those who work within WTS to help others, what have you done?

I am rooting for the grizzly bear!!!!

JVB demoted because she couldn’t meet target in MM sales. Now Shelly Goodman ‘retiring’ because she couldn’t unravel the destruction JVB left behind. For those of you outside of sales that complain about RTO, sales has the most valid reason to complain. Sales is forced to office 5x just like everyone else. Think of the time on the road we could be in front of customers. Instead, we have to come to office daily to meet an in office badge swipe quota while sales attainments circle the drain. We can go into the field to meet customers and try to sale fiber and mobility but the hours we lose daily by commuting instead of acquiring revenue is astounding. Yes, we are in the field but the hours commuting eats up some of that time and we see it in quarter after quarter revenue decline. When sales is set up to fail, we all will.

It was mentioned by Anthony in the Q&A so I guess we shouldn't be surprised but the LSE org is going through a major "restructuring". I've counted 4 VPs that were let go, I'm sure there will be more to come...

Has anyone that has left voluntarily or via WFR in Sales or Presales been held to a Non Compete or Key employee agreement( KEA) when looking at going to a competitor or partner? Thought there was one but can't seem to find that now.

Thank you!

Hertz sells facility near Mitchell International for $4.5 million

Anyone hearing anything?