Is This a Battle Worth Fighting, or Should I Look for a New Job? — Transcript

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1. 0:00My VP is sleeping with my sales rep. We
2. 0:02hired a new junior rep from college 5
3. 0:04months ago.
4. 0:06Since then, she's generated zero
5. 0:07qualified meetings or sales. She has no
6. 0:09experience and clearly isn't
7. 0:10communicating to learning as she ignores
8. 0:13advice given to her by me and the
9. 0:16enablement manager.
10. 0:17>> Let's talk about enablement.
11. 0:18>> I've wanted her out of the company so we
12. 0:20can get a more experienced rep, but my
13. 0:21VP 45
14. 0:23>> Uh-huh.
15. 0:24>> always defends her saying the economy is
16. 0:26tough and we need to create a culture of
17. 0:27cultivating not hiring.
18. 0:30Cultivating something.
19. 0:31I saw them in a hotel bar and heard the
20. 0:33VP bought tickets to an industry
21. 0:34conference in Dubai where the two of
22. 0:35them were going to do some prospecting.
23. 0:38Is this a battle worth fighting or
24. 0:39should I start looking for a new job?
25. 0:40Wait.
26. 0:41>> Wait, hold on.
27. 0:44So, I guess this is a sales manager.
28. 0:47VP, so probably the guy above him
29. 0:49>> Yeah.
30. 0:50>> is sleeping with someone below him.
31. 0:52>> Yeah.
32. 0:53>> And he's not the owner.
33. 0:57>> I mean, I think that this plays out
34. 0:58which is like their short-term long-term
35. 1:00which is like
36. 1:02unfortunately, if this is something that
37. 1:03is very bothersome for you, which it
38. 1:05sounds like it is, the fact that you
39. 1:06would ask that question,
40. 1:08just saying cuz some people don't care.
41. 1:10Um
42. 1:11this is kind of a losing battle because
43. 1:14it doesn't seem like this is the type of
44. 1:16place where they
45. 1:18will make changes based on
46. 1:20the situation.
47. 1:22Uh
48. 1:23so, it's like you have a couple options
49. 1:24which is like one, you could go to the
50. 1:25superior of the superior or HR
51. 1:28um and say this is what's happening and
52. 1:31I want this person out and this person
53. 1:33doesn't want to which means you have by
54. 1:35consequence created an enemy of the VP.
55. 1:38The second option is you say, "Fuck it,
56. 1:40I'm going to let this girl who's
57. 1:41ineffective remain on the team and I'm
58. 1:43going to ignore it and I'm going to keep
59. 1:44doing my best um and keep working my way
60. 1:46up in the company here."
61. 1:48Those are really the two options you
62. 1:49have. The third option is that you leave
63. 1:52the company.
64. 1:53>> I have door four then.
65. 1:54>> Okay. Okay.
66. 1:54>> Okay.
67. 1:55>> Third option is you leave the company
68. 1:57because you say, "Okay, well,
69. 2:00I don't like how this goes and I don't
70. 2:02want to deal with it. So, I want to go
71. 2:04somewhere with a better culture."
72. 2:05What's your fourth option?
73. 2:06>> Door four.
74. 2:08This is going to be a little little
75. 2:09questionable.
76. 2:11But,
77. 2:11>> creepy?
78. 2:12>> No.
79. 2:13What?
80. 2:13>> I don't know.
81. 2:14>> No, I think you I think you can DM the
82. 2:16CEO or the owner, whoever is the
83. 2:18[snorts] person who owns the company
84. 2:19who's above the VP.
85. 2:21So, it's a bit
86. 2:22um
87. 2:23typically, if you do that, you say,
88. 2:25"Please do not say this came from me."
89. 2:27Like, you could try to protect your
90. 2:28anonymity, but it's like, "Listen, I
91. 2:29thought you would want to know that I'm
92. 2:30trying to fire this rep and the person
93. 2:32above me is blocking me and I'm pretty
94. 2:33sure they're sleeping together and I
95. 2:34think that's the reason why, which I
96. 2:35don't think is in the best service of
97. 2:36your business." As an owner of a
98. 2:38business, I want to know if somebody
99. 2:42who's one level down is blocking someone
100. 2:43two levels down from doing their job.
101. 2:45Right? And that person's you're like,
102. 2:46"I'm concerned about my livelihood
103. 2:48because this person is now affecting my
104. 2:50metrics and I can't I've been robbed of
105. 2:53the authority to make the decisions on
106. 2:55my team, but I still have the
107. 2:55responsibility of delivering these
108. 2:56numbers. So, it's an authority
109. 2:58responsibility mismatch and I feel like
110. 2:59obligated morally to let you know.
111. 3:02Please do not, you know, get me in
112. 3:03trouble with the VP because I obviously
113. 3:04want to maintain my standing here, but I
114. 3:06thought I owed it to you uh to let you
115. 3:08know that this was going on."
116. 3:09>> Well, the reason I said HR is I figured
117. 3:11the company's big enough that they have
118. 3:12HR if they have this many levels was the
119. 3:14first thought. The second thought is
120. 3:15that if they do have HR, this is a
121. 3:17sexual whatever investigation,
122. 3:19unfortunately. So, they're going to have
123. 3:20to investigate it and he's going to have
124. 3:22to get pulled in.
125. 3:24That's annoying.
126. 3:25>> Yeesh.
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