COMPANY’S TOP PERFORMING SALESMAN ASKED FOR 10% RAISE, GOT FIRED INSTEAD

The best salesman of our department asked for a little raise. He was fired. I’m disgusted and looking for another job

We are a good departments, we make constant profits (that it’s quite uncommon in our business). He was by far the best of us, insanely good at his job, he sold so so much.

He asked for a 10% raise (that it’s still so low compared to how much he sold), was fired at the end of the day.

I actually like my job, salary is not high but hours are not too long, but now I feel like I am just a number, if he can’t ask for more, no one can (I’m very good at work but he is literally the best of all in a 400 people department).

I’m also surprised that except very few co-workers, all the other ones don’t seem to care about what happened.

Netizens’ comments

1. Businesses really are that stupid.
   One I worked for a few years ago decided to downsize their operations, so they looked at how much individuals cost in terms of salary and commission. I was the most expensive person because of the amount of commission I earned.
   You see where I am going with this? I earned about 40K commission in that year and the next closest to me earned 78 – that is 78 not 78K.
   They got rid of me based on cost, not realising that the reason for the cost was that I was the only one who sold anything.
2. Companies are just dumb and greedy. Our best salesman took turnover from $500k to $12 million in 5 years, but we were a subdivision of a far larger company and started making them look like a bunch of clowns.
   So, to redress the balance they shut us down, literally swanned in and we’re gone.
3. I’m not in sales but I overheard a meeting in a coffee shop where a manager held a meeting with his salespeople. I have no idea what they were selling but the guy who was clearly the top producer in the room was being berated and belittled by his boss and was then, summarily relieved of his clients and given the worst possible list of prospects as punishment.
   My sense was that the district manager wanted those clients himself and collect the commissions, so he simply took them away from the person who sold the job.