Talking about stuff I should know by now.

ever have those days where you just wanted to throw in the towel with just about everything?

who am i kidding?  we’ve all had those days.

i’ve been working my ass off at my job with literally nothing to show for it.  i’m on a career treadmill.  the economy sucks, so business sucks, which makes me and my fellow employees look like we suck, and the suck-fest pulls down morale, which only leads to people not giving a shit (myself included at times), and the cycle gets worse.  overall, i’m a very positive person.  but over the past 6 months or so, that has been waning, seeing as how everything i do seems to fail, or if it succeeds, it doesn’t succeed “enough”.

at my previous job, one of my biggest peeves was that my boss’s boss, who wanted to promote me, could never just give me a compliment and be done with it.  i was one of the best salespeople in his area, and i would close a deal, underneath what the “target” was, and he would ask why i didn’t make my target.  now i should explain that i was in lending.  so let’s say my “target” was $150k in loans, and this particular time i did $130k.  now to me, that $130k is a hellalot better than ZERO.  sure, i didn’t make the target.  but i was proud of myself for not being at ZERO.  i worked my ass off for that $130k.  can you just say “great job” and get on with your life?  why does upper management have to make everyone’s life miserable?  there’s an old expression that goes something like, “shoot for the moon and you’ll land among the stars”.  how optimistic!

every company i’ve ever had the “pleasure” of working with sets goals that are normally out of the realm of realistic.  but i get it - they want you to push yourself, and to strive every month or quarter or what have you to do better and better.  so why, when you can prove that you’ve done the work, you’ve tried every avenue, etc do they contend that you’re just not doing your job well enough if you don’t hit every goal?

now i suppose if the fact i was having this issue was isolated there might be an argument there.  but most of the locations in our area are having the same issue.  if they aren’t, i would say that they are the exception to the rule, and are doing well despite a shitty economy.  no one wants to admit that things aren’t as easy as they used to be, but for the love of all things, accept and realize that this is the way things are.  i can’t hold a gun to someone’s head and sell them a product or service that they quite simply do not want or can’t afford b/c of the way things are right now.  get a clue.

whew.  rant done.  for now.  anyone else experiencing the same crap?