Favoritism is nothing new. However, in the past, managers at least tried to hide that they had favorites. Now it's like the game of playing favorites is very much out in the open? Very frustrating and very unprofessional. Worst of all, the favorites are not the most talented, but most often those with the least competencies.
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Higher ups like to hire their own kind so they have a buffer. And they have their mo--s imbedded for intel to what is really being said and done by the commoners and little people.
It’s all a game.
I'm just trying to figure out what BAC sells so that I can stay away
Wow that person should have been fired I've seen people fired for other d-mb reasons....
Well, they got away with it for a few months until management finally stopped it. The point is that they were gaming the system, using bogus gimmicks to falsify their sales numbers. They find every which way to inflate their numbers when it's all smoke and mirrors. Meanwhile, the honest, productive employees that were actually booking real business, were working 100x as hard and being treated like garbage. Management encouraged the bad behavior, instead of firing these losers like they should have.
I work in sales too....how are they able to do that? Does that person work at a branch or do they do chat or phone sales? I do phone sales and its hard for me to figure out how they can do that considering how everything is tracked and monitored...and how we get credit for our credit card sales...here if we book a cc the client has to put some usage within 2 months for it to count towards your incentive. I've always wondered how some ppl selling way less end up getting more incentive than others....they need to change their incentive plan and how you get paid out for it. We all know its mostly driven by credit cards sales and it's hard to get credit for every other metric we have to meet.
Double dipping means falsifying your sales numbers by double (even triple) booking the same deal two and three times. With credit card sales, the deals were booked based on "projected" spend volume for the month which in and of itself was totally kooky. So a $50,000 credit card the company might spend $25,000 in any given month, using half the credit limit on the card, but you book it as $150,000 because you claim they are going to use the full credit limit and pay off the card three times in any given month. It's totally bogus. There were multiple instances where bad apples were gaming the system in multiple ways like this and management turned a blind eye. They just sit back, do nothing, game the system, and oftentimes get promoted. Meanwhile, the honest workers who book the cards based on real spending volume are penalized, even ostracized.
What is double dipping?
One guy on our team was double dipping on his credit card sales, claiming double the monthly purchase volume which was a clear cut violation of our internal booking rules. Normally, this would be considered fraud because the numbers were fake and he was getting paid bonus money from fake numbers. At any other company, he would be fired maybe even prosecuted if it went on long enough. But instead, he was promoted to a management position. All the managers at the time held him up as the model to emulate. Those that game the system are rewarded, and those that are working their tails off to book real legitimate business are treated like third class citizens.
@ajf I think that is against the rules of this site.
Name names!