A Time of Change Part Two

Understanding a good opportunity and knowing when to change what you are doing is an important concept that I recently learned. I received a sign on bonus with a boss that can sell very well but has no experience as a manager who takes us from Phoenix to San Diego and then Calexico. My day off is an adventure and my time of change is just in time before disaster.

If you had a job opportunity to go from Phoenix to San Diego, paid with a sign on bonus would you do it? Itook this opportunity because I was looking for something better. My new boss was Nick Wilson, he was the one who recruited me with a sign on bonus.  My boss was an extremely good sales man, in his first four month summer he made $250,000 so he was promoted to be the office manager of San Diego the next summer. With only four months of experience in alarm sales he was ready to manage. My experience at this point was 24 months working six days a week at 55 hours. I had a lot more experience than anyone in the whole office but the manager could out sell me by three times. Managing and selling are two different things and ill soon find that out.

Everyone’s sales are down in the office except for the manager with twenty again on the week for the second week in a row. So Nick decides to take every one to Calexico for a week to see if he could help boost the sales. The cars and neighborhoods look prefect to sell security systems too and probably never get salesman knocking at their door, but sure enough “no speak a English” says the home owner.  This is a problem because there are only a few people in our group that speak Spanish and Nick Wilson is one of those people who can.  Most of the people that answered the door tried to understand me but didn’t want to do business because of the language barrier.  For the remainder of the week, everyone that couldn’t speak Spanish didn’t get a deal and the few that spoke Spanish trickled in a deal here and there but not five a day like Nick. He said every day that three or four of his deals were in English, but I disagree. Saturday was finally here, the day that I ask to have off when he first hired me and before he decided to take us to Calexico.

A Time of Change Part Two