#sales

I have been a employee of Oracle for 10+ years in Asia Pacific - many jurisdictions in APAC have failry strong labour/labor laws.

Sales targets have over the past 2-3 years increased substantially, to the point one could reasonably claim employee harrassment or "setting the employee up to fail"

Question: Would you bother trying to fight FY27 targets as un-reasonable, or leave with your head held high and maybe return when the job market favors the employee rather than employer?

Justin was given a mission.

NetApp recently conducted layoffs. These job cuts occurred in San Jose. The affected positions included product management. Software engineering roles were also impacted. Sales department employees faced job reductions.

San Jose, California

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2026/05/26/netapp-layoffs-san-jose.html

Heard from area VP that Q2 sales is looking bad and people are starting to pull in Q3 sales numbers. Looks like this is going to spiral down to year end with no actual growth. Second half of year will suffer due to pull in price increases.

This is the first time since coming to Oxy 10 years ago that I have really convinced myself that we are actively trying to get bought. Between the aggressive debt reduction, new CEO, divestiture of non core assets (Oxychem), delaying long term project investment, and the countless asset summaries I've created it really seems like the writing is on the wall. I've been a part of sales teams in the past and this feels eerily similar. Anybody else feel the same way?

Strong rumors about Networking and Security Specialist SE/AEs being moved into Portfolio Generalist AE/SE roles. Anyone hearing anything for USC and GES?

How would account mapping work? Who would handle Cat Center and Security conversations? Leader check in from today, can someone help confirm/deny rumors?

Anything good coming from VBG products that will generate good sales? (Or any current products showing potential?)

Seems like AT&T and T-Mo are putting out products - what do we have that's got potential?

Hard to tell if the AI Connect stuff is real.

Offer the $7.95 Insurance.. if your manager reprimands you for that state that we offer it, if you get written up call the ethics hotline

Its the right thing to do, sell with integrity!

Sales is only doing outbound calls with an automated dialer now…. Don’t know where incoming calls are going to…..Just voicemail after voicemail being left to sign up for VHI Lite internet. Are we trying to get a whole team to just quit at one time? Is that how we fix the return to office attitude? Are sales calls now going to the Philippines with horrible customer service? New PIP process will be epic by the end of them month if this is how it’s gonna be from now on. SMH.

I really value being managed to modern seller metrics, it gives me a clear sense of accomplishment and keeps me motivated. The structured performance coaching plans also make me feel invested in and supported as a seller, which ultimately drives me to perform at a higher level.

Check your spiff $$$
Associates at my store want a better system for giving out credit spiff as some believe their spiff money was stolen

As the title suggests, rumor in my dept is it will primarily be people on cloud teams and sales.

R2B reps are getting hit extremely hard right now. They are expected to manage stores while also prospecting in both the R2B and B2B space. Meanwhile, compensation has been gutted to a fraction of what it once was through quota inflation and reduced payouts on products like tablets and connected devices.

The company wants these reps competing against full B2B teams for pennies on the dollar in compensation.

People are preparing to jump ship, and when that happens, the burden shifts onto customers, remaining employees, and Verizon business units trying to make up for the lost revenue and damaged relationships.

Business owners generally want to work with experienced, intelligent, laid back business managers who are compensated well enough to actually care about building long term relationships. Constant turnover destroys that trust.

What is happening feels incredibly short sighted. T Mobile and AT&T will be waiting like vultures to scoop up business from owners who are tired of losing their reps every few months.

How many Five9 (FIVN) shares did Tiffany N. Meriweather sell and at what prices?

She sold 8,497 Five9 common shares on May 13, 2026 at a weighted average price of $21.22, and 21,320 shares on May 14, 2026 at a weighted average price of $20.98. In total, 29,817 shares were sold in open-market transactions.

The filing reports open-market sales of Five9 common stock, coded as “S” transactions. Both trades involved non-derivative common shares sold directly by the insider, rather than option exercises, gifts, or tax-withholding dispositions.

Chief Administrative and Legal Officer Tiffany N. Meriweather has executed a notable insider transaction involving Five9 stock, selling a total of 29,817 shares. This sale amounts to proceeds of $627,599, highlighting a sizable move by a key member of the company’s executive leadership team.

I am hearing mostly about CX and BU, no sales this time?

I believe sales will be hit again after the end of the fiscal year (5/31). Some in sales were left alone during the last round to see if they could close key deals, and they might be let go after the year ends. Also, as we move into FY27 I expect a re-org/shuffle of sales teams which might result in a few more being laid off. I'm out of the loop now, but that's my expectation.

Anything happening in sales?

One thing I’ve found to be way too common among people that work for this company is people saying they’re looking for another job and that everyone they’ve spoken to is looking but it doesn’t seem like too many people ever leave and if and when they do it’s long down the road when they either find something better in this sh-t economy or they just get to the point where it comes down to “fu-k this I quit”. I no longer work for this company but started here in 2017 as a part timer and became full time when they rolled out the disastrous mission 1 in early 2023 and was an FTOW for a little under a year and a half and lemme tell you mission 1 made my life a living he-l. I went from being mostly happy with occasionally getting angry or triggered to being mostly unhappy with occasional happy moments. And it was all because I let myself suffer from working for a company that works people like slaves and doesn’t give two sh--s how hard you work. Even before mission 1 I felt the entire time we were heading this way I just couldn’t see it but looking back in hindsight the company itself was going to sh-t even before mission 1 it’s just mission 1 made it worse and I guarantee you this new territory manager sh-t that’s getting rolled out across the board is gonna be an even bigger disaster. I think what a lot of people who continue to deal with this don’t realize is that even if you can’t find something that pays better and you get the same if not more PTO finding something that pays similar maybe little better little worse it won’t hurt to maybe get out of here and do something else while looking for a job that pays better than this. I feel so relived that I no longer do this. Altogether with my 13 years I spent in the vendor world between Keebler(before Nabisco), reset team(while I was part time and Nabisco was fu--ing with my hours) and here I must say if I knew I wouldn’t miss it once I’m gone I would’ve planned my escape much sooner. All I miss is some of the people I’d see from other companies and from the stores I’d go to otherwise I’m glad to be out. I still work in the grocery retail field unfortunately I work full time at a grocery chain that’s fairly new to my area which only opened last year but started hiring for it 2 years ago. While it doesn’t pay that good I needed to do something i couldn’t continue to stay a FTOW and go into work being slammed everyday it was fu--ing with my mental health badly. I think I still never recovered from the burnout from mission 1 because I never had a true full break to recoup since I couldn’t just not work too many bills and rent is too damn high. My current job treats me much better though I wish I would be out of this field altogether but at least at my current job everyone is treated with respect whereas Mondelez is nothing but empty threats and intimidation. I even told someone at my current job some of what I had to deal with at Mondelez when I was having a bad day one day and she was like “omg I’m so sorry”‘ it’s like she felt so terrible for what I had to deal with. I feel like I almost made her cry like she truly felt how horrible I was being treated but Mondelez treats their people horrible. It’s like they threaten the good FTOWs and sales reps into getting them to do an impossible job whereas there’s FTOWs who can’t even pack out an order who are given a tablet to write and order only so they can fu-k it up and have the rep getting phone calls from stores left and right.

Likely a week from today

Has anyone heard about the Out of footprint enterprise expansion teams getting their own dedicated directors this year?

horrible culture for sales and supporting groups

More product line sales this year?

About a third of our team was sent packing with a very meager severance package. Company is getting desperate. Poor financial condition stops new sales which worsens financial condition which scares new customers away. Death spiral as they circle the drain.

Considering that the sales year is ending in June?

What do u think after the last town hall?

Have we figured how to increase sales? If not, no matter what you do (kick off lowly employees to save some change), wall street will keep shorting they will bring PE to 15 or less.

I heard that a bunch of MB people left, which is why a bunch of new sales reps are coming in, not sure if that is true?

they didn’t extend the offer to Sales because of Q4. They don’t want to distract the team from closing the quarter and FY26. We’ll see if that’s true if they expand it to Sales roles in FY27.

No more "Captain" positions ? If so I'm glad! All the Managers do is over use everyone while under paying you!

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/markets/stocks/article/coca-cola-exec-says-coke-zero-is-far-and-away-our-best-innovation--over-the-last-25-years--and-its-powering-a-sales-turnaround-164719235.html

Someone on Reddit said that they tried calling Avaya Sales, and for the last 5 hours, everything is going to VM, and no one is calling back.

We are back to pushing new accounts for anyone that walks into the branches. “Leadership” is pushing for anyone that walks to leave with new credit card, new savings account , new checking accounts, mortgage and investment referrals without asking the customer their true needs. Back to the old culture as if it ever left.

Sales has always been more of a face to face type of job even for remote meetings. Do you really think Larry would try to replace us with AI or cut down on us? Less sales less profits.

So... I heard through the grape vine that inside sales is getting a 40% reduction in quota for this month... has anyone heard of that and or can confirm...

Is it likely they will lay some of us off once the sales season closes out?

But can we actually make some good product and get it to market in under 2 years?
Can we stop the embarrassing marketing blunders like the World Cup sleeve fu-k up and the Boston marathon disaster?
Operating costs will look better but sales don’t lie.
Hoping to be laid off as this place seems clueless as f and I’ve been here for 20 years.
Feeling for the folks laid off that will suffer.

Sales have tanked to LY
Credit applications have plummeted

Customers discretionary spending has tightened up tremendously

Payroll Hours slashed in my region

Sure, revenue's way up. But the culture and morale are in the underworld--seriously it's depressing. Run like a prison daycare if that's even a thing. Senior leadership is awful and arrogantly tone deaf. I give it 2 quarters before it's 80% black screens and nothing but fresh college grads to try and pick up the pieces as they continue to crumble. The ship ain't crashing, it's being sunk by ignorance. AI, Saleschat, and ODW will NOT save MB on its current course.

Looks like from the outside Target is doing really well. Stock price is way up, lot of positivity on LinkedIn and social media from leadership, employees on social media seem really happy. Fiddelke said that they will also have positive comp sales every quarter this year. Is Target back?