#sales

Got word that multiple people in sales and support have been impacted from an Oracle Communications GBU perspective.

No word on consulting yet but more to come throughout the quarter unfortunately.

Certainly hits when you put a name to the people impacted.

Lists released to managers today. Notifying impacted employees Mon/Tues. I cant speak for other groups within Oracle.

CSM roles will be responsible for renewals in FY27. Core will cease to exist as we know it.

Welcome to Truist, how many money market accounts can I sell to you today?

Another monumental sc--w up from 3M corporate functions - customers affected by multiple divisions with comms sent from some but not others so total confusion amongst our channel. No proposed adjustment on clp so nightmare for customers and trying to push all admin on to them, whilst also not providing any information that they need to make the changes. Way to go commercial excellence team - completely disconnected from reality and the businesses, are we on the business of destroying all of our relationships and everything our sales teams work for, why are you so focussed on sales prevention —YOU ARE CRASHING OUR BUSINESSES SO WAKE UP.

Here in Pennsylvania from the western part of the state to the east we are discouraged everyday from going into the customer accounts due to green checks. Green checks mean the customer qualifies for internet air or fiber. The focus seems to be the AIA ratio. Hitting your goals or being close to your goal doesn’t matter. What’s your ratio? They are gonna beat it over your head and make your job not fun and the customer experience cr-ppy. Between corporate retail and authorized we are just sending the customers on one big circlej--kDon’t sign in and check and scrub an account. God forbid you do what used to be our job and sign into a customers account and sell something other than Internet. Stores send customers out and about for trade ins and any other option that doesn’t cede Internet. WHAT A HORRIBLE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE. AT&T doesn’t care about the employee, we know that, but they don’t care about the customer. Take it from me. Upper management outside of the stores encourages store managers to do all of this. The store managers are put into a horrible position. Instead of selling everyone is walking on egg shells. AT&T seems to breed the worst of the worst when it comes to Director and Associate Directors. Even some VP GM’s. These people are clueless.

Check out the SEC sales on C level stock sales. Even the President is selling her shares while touting that everything is just fine. For Shame! Millions and millions people!

https://www.investor.fisglobal.com/financial-information/sec-filings/

What are the thoughts behind this transition? Do you think this is go move or bad move? What are the rumors on how quota is going to be and if we are getting a comp increase decrease or change to salary? Just any more information about this transition would be appreciated. Crazy times right now at Verizon. (Posted this on other VzW thread got no responses sorry)

It's my understanding out of Jacksonville a new wrinkle comes out next month. If you are not at 85% of calendar Q1 goals 30 day PiP's will be handed out. They will be aggressive in nature. They are trying to squeeze as much revenue performance out of sales as possible or cut losses quickly.

How is the Clover inside sales team doing in Coral Springs? Fiserv laid off the entire inside sales team in Marietta GA early Jan. Stock is still down.... hopefully they can get their sh$$ together

Any rumors about a higher ed sales layoff?

FCC is no longer approving new models of routers if made outside the US. Existing approved routers are fine. This may mean we can’t use Altice Labs and Sagecom anymore. No more corruption with Altice Labs on the routers.

https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-foreign-made-router-ban-explained/

So it looks like our number one cash cow f150 sales will be down 30% at current gas prices. The guy with the f150 is definitely not driving it as much nowadays. This will make ford go bankrupt sooner. I don’t see how we get out of this mess. Remaining year will be tough hopefully we can get through it.

Great job everyone! As a retired Macy's IT worker, it is great to see Tony Spring take the reins and show incredible sales results. Such a pleasure not to fear sales reporting.

As a team, you all deserve recognition. Yes, many changes- retail is ever changing, especially in the environment we are currently in.
Macy's did a great job navigating the change, great execution in planning as well.

Here's wishing you all a successful 2026,!

Heard today from a friend of mine who is a director in Sales that they were given notice in January of a very large layoff in May. He was told back in November to put a list together to have finalized in January for layoffs in May.

I'm not in sales so was curious what the "qualifications" were for wfr and he said that it's primrily metric based. Call times, achieving numbers, and weirdly enough, likeability - whatever tf thats supposed to mean...

Apparently his team of 20 is getting cut to 10 people, though. And that's just his team

Saw someone else get an interview on a shared screen today, are they just targeting five9 now for staff?

I had one in my LinkedIn dms, are there any other good employers looking for five9 employees?

I am hoping to get out of here soon, the salary and management toxicity really struck a nerve recently

After Thanksgiving Support your small business (Xerox) Sale.

Who knew we were selling more in sweatshirts and soap than we were EVs?

“Ford…is raking in a whopping $1 billion in merchandising deals as a result of these expanded efforts. Even a recent collaboration with Dr. Squatch - which led to the creation of the Bronco Bricc soap bar - resulted in 40,000 units being moved across three days, selling out in record time as well.” (7/1/2024 Ford Authority)

Anybody currently work this role or know someone in it? Looking for any reports how you like the role and your day-to-day functions. Also if targets are achievable or there is high turnover in the role.

This is a sinking ship…..#Sprint 101

Lookup your 24 months sales revenue for your branch…local domestic or international..

So if you sell more and advance over 100% one gets penalized. Short and simple summary. So sell to only reach 100% after doing your “8”, then hit the “gate”. If they ask to “Sell”, then be like : HA HAAAAA MOFOS!! 🤣🤣🤣

If you are an active sales rep….

Type # 1 if leaving after 4/1

Type # 2 if staying after 4/1

Effective 4/1 , every reps account assignments will be slimmed down to 20-40 accounts in total. The remainder will be moved to inside sales. Expect more layoffs, compensation will be moved to net new client acquisition (make the same but you have to convince new businesses to work with this horrendous business - in other words , make a lot less). Good luck everyone. I feel sorry for all the great customers that will no longer have the coverage they need to support them. This is embarrassing.

Dear John,
Oh behalf of the COR retail sales team, we are informing you that you “failed” your side by side observation! Your failed to do your mid check in as well as loosing money for the Company with your failed sales techniques! Your inability to sale and represent the companies values are lacking!

Those of you that are RTMs. Did you get additional stores added to your territory or smaller or did it stay the same?

that senior leadership has "carried a bag" at some point in their career and been successful. Leadership like that came from other roles like ops (ww) etc have no idea of what it takes to be successful in outside sales. They pat themselves on thr back because they can read a spreadsheet. Meanwhile the rest of us that grind it out month after month have to listen to their bs.

So all the sales team in nl just got let go on Friday.
This is after months of delay with works council…
Anyway; vz is existing nl. One of their major European hubs of VzB..

Working on a large deal? Oh well, come 4/1 that opportunity is gone. Have a large customer base to flip and keep steady commissions in place? Not anymore and no salary increase or draw to compensate during the transition… Tell me RB wants reps to quit without telling me… disappointed in what Xerox has turned in to.

Commission upgrade for sales representatives and assistant managers. Thoughts?

Right now in America we have more private equity firms than we have McDonald’s. Let that sink in…. More leveraged buyout shops than fast food franchises. And somehow that is supposed to be normal….

This is the investmnt vehicle of choice for Ivy League nepo babies who want the upside without the liability. They sit on top of a backlog of 31,000 to 39,000 companies they cannot sell because they stuffed them with debt and marked them at fantasy valuations. The funds are supposed to close. The assets are supposed to exit. But the market will not pay what they claim those assets are worth.

So what do they do??

The PE firm itself takes almost no risk. They create a fund. Outside investors supply the capital. They borrow the rest from banks, pensions, and public retirement systems. Then they buy a company and load the debt onto that company’s balance sheet. Not their own. The company owes the money back.

It is like buying a car where you get the title, the resale credit, and the bragging rights, but the car is responsible for making the payments. And while the car is trying to pay for itself, you sell its parking spot, lease out its tires, refinance its mainteance plan, and siphon the cash. Then you add more debt. The car still owes it all.

For years, that game worked because rates were near zero. Over the last two years, rates went up. That adjustable rate debt they stacked on top of these businesses is now costing 14 to 18 percent. In distressed deals, 21 PCT. On billions of dollars.

So the math stopped working……..

Instead of taking the loss, they started doing secondaries. ABC PE cant sell its billion dollar company. XYZ Private Equity cannot sell theirs. So they sell them to each other at the same inflated valuations. They borrow fresh money from pensions and other investors to do it. The first fund gets “liquidity.” The second fund inherits the problem.

The Financial Times has been calling this a pyramid for years. No real price discovery. No true market validation. Just circular trades at numbers they agreed on.

Then even that stopped working. One hundred billion dollars in assets could not be moved in the last two quarters of 2025, even through these internal trades.

So now we get continuation funds.

This is where it goes from financial engineering to parody. ABC Private Equity has a company it cannot sell. The fund must close. So they create Fund 2. They raise new money from new investors. Then Fund 2 buys the same asset from Fund 1 at an even higher valuation. The cash from Fund 2 pays off the investors in Fund 1. The asset never faced the open market. The price is whatever they say it is.

That is not sophisticated. That is a textbook Ponzi dynamic. New money pays off old money. The underlying asset does not justify the valuation. It just gets passed around inside the same firm.

And who is the new money? Public pensions. Retirement accounts. 401k allocations. Teachers, firefighters, municipal workers. People who do not even know their retirement is being used to refinance a debt stack on a company nobody else would buy.

Meanwhile, those companies are being strip mined. Fees. Dividends. Asset sales. Cost cutting. More leverage. All while being valued at numbers the market has already rejected.

There is now 31,000 to 39,000 companies sitting in this pipeline. They need exits. They need buyers. They need cash.

Ponzi structures always collapse the same way. Not with drama at first, but with a liquidity squeeze. Eventually you run out of new money. When that happens, the valuations get marked to reality. And reality is not kind to overleveraged assets paying double digit interest.

Instead of admitting the model is broken, the industry is looking at the biggest pools of capital left and thinking: open the pensions wider. Shift the allocation rules. Expand the mandate. Push more retirement money into private markets.

So rather than let bad bets fail, we socialize the downside.

More private equity firms than McDonald’s. Tens of thousands of companies trapped in debt stacks. One hundred billion dollars that could not even be papered over with internal trades. And the proposed solution is to feed it more pension cash.

If this ends the way Ponzi structures usually end, it will not be the partners in the Hamptons taking the hit.

It will be the retirees.

rumors have it the stock market is set to let loose with the bottom falling out around 20%+then on 3\17, there is a hearing in nyc involving the former CFO, President, and ExVp of Sales/Marketing^^the heat is being turned up on fmr associates & looking to split their firm & turn each other on themselves. Nomore unjustenrichment you say ?

5% drop today…anticipating February sales numbers?

Another pointless position created just a couple years ago to waste company money. Back to basics?

Who else started following her on TikTok after the mention during the Enterprise Town Hall? I'm loving this employee-generated content and it will be really interesting to see what kind of sales impact she will have. The growth in number of followers and all the enthusiasm for Staples in her post comments is exciting to witness.

So for those that don't know there will be a lot of upselling for Balance Transfers starting in March. They'll try to bait you, "we are offering 0% Balance Transfers with a fee of 4.99%, will you be willing to take this offer?" lol

This is supposedly US Bank's leadership goals for 2026. They want the reps to hit 70% and try to upsell to customers that don't need to do balance transfers. Also, once you find out how Balance Transfers work you'll be kicking yourself paying more in Interest and paying the bank more than what you asked for.

Do operations managers think this is a smart move? Guarantee this will fail. They predict these sells through their programs lol. smh GK is d-mb as a brick to think this will help them

Just got the axe today, no more resting and vesting. Didn’t expect it, was anyone else impacted today?

Earnings day on the same day all your sales and business leaders are together in Orlando at SKO.

Are we really having a sales kickoff? How much money does this cost? wouldn't it bt better to save? instead of flying everyone out just to "network" and get drunk in las vegas.

3wks working my ar-e off, and seeing zero chance of getting to 100%. While the past wks revenue wise have been fairly promising, not a single cent has shipped. This SCP su-ks and they can shove these 25% draws. The irony here is that I will owe them money back when indeed they really owe that to me.