THE NEGATIVE REACTION

ITS GOOD TO BE FREE AGAIN.

When our superhero last left you. . . it was a scant four months ago and the future looked pretty bleak. The Inside Sales department ship was sinking fast and our superhero could see the water lapping over his shoelaces. So what happened? Where did our superhero land? Well. . . . .

First of all, I totally jacked the Marketing Interview (probably for the better), I Got an offer from the DC Group, and as fate would have it - I got a job offer from Thomson, specifically, a job offer from FindLAw. You know, the fastest growing group within the Thomson West family. Here I am, in late April, having to decide between FindLaw and The DC Group. AlwaysBeThere just didn't have the pay scale I was interested in, or more importantly, could live on. Not to mention, I'd be taking a HUGE pay cut and working long hours and possibly weekends. With 10 years of experience in my bag, it didn't seem like a wise move. With all the fancy stuff the staff had at their disposal, it still wasn't enough. Maybe 5-7 years ago, I would've jumped at this job, but where I am now. . . no way. I totally blew off the last interview with the two owners. It was a lame interview anyways. I've had better questions asked for my bagger job at Byerly's than the ones they asked me at aBt. There were some other warning signs as well - but what can I say? The job wasn't for me. They didn't call me back and make me an offer, and I wasn't going to chase them down for it.

This leaves DC Group and FindLaw. I was pretty sure I was moving to the DC Group, then out of the blue, I got hooked up with the job at FindLaw. Chad, my manager was salivating over my resume. I had all the experience they wanted. Internet, web page experience, sales, training, management, I was the complete package. It was a no brainer for me to come up and work from them.

This left the hard task of telling the DC Group I wasn't coming to work for them. It was a tough call, but DC Group only offered, 2-$300.00 more than FindLaw and the deal breaker was a big one - on call duty. This meant weekends and nights of carrying a laptop and cellphone wherever I went. No weekends and no on call with FindLaw - thanks goes to Chad for making my choice so easy.

Now I'm 4 months into the job and absolutely love it. I learn something just about eveyday, my HTML skills are going through the roof and now that I'm busting my ass to get lockins and retain customers, I've already gotten some great feedback from my manager. It's the best decision I've made. I get to still see my buds in inside sales and have a job I love coming to work for. So whatever happened to the "segmentation experiment"??

Not so good. Lots of people coming and going (mostly going), several people moving into different departments and general maheim has ensued. My timing couldn't have been better. People are going long stretches without making their quotas and it's not imprving, it still getting worse. I've heard from friends in marketing they're seeing some major changes coming down the pipe with the pilots they're running now and even they say they can't see the bottom of this thing yet - how scary is that? It's like falling into a well, you haven't hit bottom yet, but its black around you. WOAH!!!!!

Anyways, lots more going on, but its time for me to get out for a long holiday weekend.