I am very thankful to have made it thru the latest re-org and my heart goes out to all of those affected by the layoffs. Our market gutted national retail reps (NAEs) and had small changes to local dealer reps (RAEs). All ARSMs and DOSs over COR and Indirect were kept. We only know at our AE level that we have a job. Nobody has explained what our role is going to be and the directors and arsms are keeping tight lipped. They have been on hierarchy calls for their territory by DOS and they have a Regional tools and resources call tomorrow at 1pm for all arsms, DOS's,and vpgms. There are no AEs on that call.
We all still have a pit in our stomachs because it seems obvious that our position is going to be used as workhorses until they can get their systems and support aligned for all 3 channels. It seems that there will be another round of cuts down the line (6-18 months from now) and they will keep around 25-33% of what AEs are left and promote to ARSM. The Indirect ARSM role seems to be what the old AE role was. Can anyone please add any insight to this or post what you have heard.