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I take it you've never worked in or around sales with a commission? One big deal can easily quadruple a salesperson's salary for the quarter. When that happens,
by hueving 11y ago
I take it you've never worked in or around sales with a commission? One big deal can easily quadruple a salesperson's salary for the quarter. When that happens, people will downplay the deal as just being luck and get upset that the salesperson is making so much. However, they don't bat an eye when the salesperson doesn't make their quota a couple quarters in a row and gets fired.
People get jealous and can't handle the truth because a huge chunk of people don't even understand how a business works. Especially from an engineering side, it's really hard to swallow the fact that you have all of the skills and actually created the product, yet you will make 10% of what good salespeople make.
- tomjen3 11y agoThat is because sales people are overrated because you can measure what they bring to the table. Programmers, not so much.
- ghaff 11y agoPretty much. The same people who see salespeople as overpaid schmoozers and order-takers (some are, many aren't) would be utterly horrified at the thought they themselves could be fired without a second thought because of an organizational change or budget cut at a key account.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoThis happens to engineers often enough.
- ghaff 11y agoWell, yes, projects get canceled and people get fired as a result. But there tends to be less of a direct linkage with this quarter's revenue than in the case of sales.