Tip Jar on My Desk

Originally Posted by savinggrace

If you can't have fun at work, you have to make your own fun. Cingular is a boring money factory. We were so slow on July 4th that we played baseball with a rolled up poster and a ball of packing tape. We busted out a bunch of lights and blamed power surges. When the game ended we took turns spinning the accessory rack and making videos of all the stuff flying through the air. Now that's what I call work!

Originally Posted by savinggrace

Cingular pays alot of money for advertisement and marketing people to do that busy work. You must be some manager that "seagulls" in everytime someone laughs. I bet you never worked Sundays or late nights in a dimmly lit, nearly vacant strip mall that the only other store open is a pizza joint. You are mad about something that is wrong in your own store. When things are slow its doesn't matter how much you mail or flyer. We did that to the max. After sending out over thousands of postcards, we would not get any responses. I personally went to every business in our town and dropped off flyers. What a waste. While I was out, the slackers activated phones in the store. We dropped flyers in every house driveway until the police told us it was littering. What really sells is a product that works all the time (no outages or busytime "no service") at a competative price. One of the most profitable companies, Google, has pool tables in the office and you can bring your dog to work. By the way: Burger King people are usually Prepaid or would have to get service their Mom's name.
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Originally Posted by walkguru

and you are how old.

Originally Posted by AMSguitarist

I just love the intelligence level of Cingular's management team. Don't you think it would tell them something if Cingular sent out 6,000 mailers in a 3 mile radius around your store and not one person came in for the special free phone deal?

Management does not want to hear "market saturation" as an excuse for decline in gross adds. Hell, I'm surprised they aren't complaining that we haven't set up a tent in front of our local Verizon store.

For the amount of money Cingular reps make, it is not nearly worth all the repetative crap you get from customer's... trust me. I took a more stable, lower paying job to get out of the industry because I couldn't take anymore "My bill is too high, credit it. My phone just stopped working. There is no way my phone came in contact with water! I would like to get a free phone though I signed up weeks ago. Why didn't you tell me this free phone was a piece of junk!" etc etc

Originally Posted by savinggrace

Cingular pays alot of money for advertisement and marketing people to do that busy work. You must be some manager that "seagulls" in everytime someone laughs. I bet you never worked Sundays or late nights in a dimmly lit, nearly vacant strip mall that the only other store open is a pizza joint. You are mad about something that is wrong in your own store. When things are slow its doesn't matter how much you mail or flyer. We did that to the max. After sending out over thousands of postcards, we would not get any responses. I personally went to every business in our town and dropped off flyers. What a waste. While I was out, the slackers activated phones in the store. We dropped flyers in every house driveway until the police told us it was littering. What really sells is a product that works all the time (no outages or busytime "no service") at a competative price. One of the most profitable companies, Google, has pool tables in the office and you can bring your dog to work. By the way: Burger King people are usually Prepaid or would have to get service their Mom's name.
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Originally Posted by p8ntbllrx

wow i can only hope i go into a store where someone has the audacity to put up a tip jar. "Tacky" doesnt cover it. Your feeling of entitlement over doing your job is a disgrace. Dont make enough comission? Leave.

Originally Posted by savinggrace

Just for fun during the slow and boring times, we would go to Killsometime.com to do just that. I am not much of a gamer, but my co-slacker got over $60,000 in Gold Miner. I was only up to $40K at my peak. We got our manager to play the ABC typing game, so she was aware of the website. We always ignored the company warning on any website, always cleared our history and made all of our favorites lead to the Code of Conduct or a specific company policy that managers violate. Our manager and ***. mgr always violated the open/close policy with the permission or the ARM. Also, the open/closing money handling requires a manager. Never happens. Local politics. I still think it's an easy $12.35 an hour. I hated that one guy got over $14 per hour because he came from a kiosk.

Originally Posted by savinggrace

Cingular pays alot of money for advertisement and marketing people to do that busy work. You must be some manager that "seagulls" in everytime someone laughs. I bet you never worked Sundays or late nights in a dimmly lit, nearly vacant strip mall that the only other store open is a pizza joint. You are mad about something that is wrong in your own store. When things are slow its doesn't matter how much you mail or flyer. We did that to the max. After sending out over thousands of postcards, we would not get any responses. I personally went to every business in our town and dropped off flyers. What a waste. While I was out, the slackers activated phones in the store. We dropped flyers in every house driveway until the police told us it was littering. What really sells is a product that works all the time (no outages or busytime "no service") at a competative price. One of the most profitable companies, Google, has pool tables in the office and you can bring your dog to work. By the way: Burger King people are usually Prepaid or would have to get service their Mom's name.
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Originally Posted by savinggrace

Cingular pays alot of money for advertisement and marketing people to do that busy work. You must be some manager that "seagulls" in everytime someone laughs. I bet you never worked Sundays or late nights in a dimmly lit, nearly vacant strip mall that the only other store open is a pizza joint. You are mad about something that is wrong in your own store. When things are slow its doesn't matter how much you mail or flyer. We did that to the max. After sending out over thousands of postcards, we would not get any responses. I personally went to every business in our town and dropped off flyers. What a waste. While I was out, the slackers activated phones in the store. We dropped flyers in every house driveway until the police told us it was littering. What really sells is a product that works all the time (no outages or busytime "no service") at a competative price. One of the most profitable companies, Google, has pool tables in the office and you can bring your dog to work. By the way: Burger King people are usually Prepaid or would have to get service their Mom's name.
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Originally Posted by smcassara

i do close one night a week, in a strip where the only other open business @ 9pm is a pizza place.

as a commissioned sales associate, you hold your earnings potential in your own hands.

i gave you one option to help increase your commission dollars, and instead you shredded my post. to prove your belief wrong, my sales associates and i visited every burger king in a 20 mile radius and distributed 340 flyers, and in that weeks time, we've had 27 of those flyers come back, adding up for 16 new lines, 3 pre pay activations, and 1 pick your plan. that comes out to just around 500 in payable commissions.

how's your tip jar doing?

Originally Posted by smcassara

i do close one night a week, in a strip where the only other open business @ 9pm is a pizza place.

as a commissioned sales associate, you hold your earnings potential in your own hands.

i gave you one option to help increase your commission dollars, and instead you shredded my post. to prove your belief wrong, my sales associates and i visited every burger king in a 20 mile radius and distributed 340 flyers, and in that weeks time, we've had 27 of those flyers come back, adding up for 16 new lines, 3 pre pay activations, and 1 pick your plan. that comes out to just around 500 in payable commissions.

how's your tip jar doing?

Originally Posted by savinggrace

I swear the Stepford Managers must be everywhere. They don't really read what people are writing about. A good manager would buy you a bucket of beers at Hooter's and shoot the breeze. A bad manager tries to correct you into submission... "Bla bla bla bla bla" is all I hear. Just like when Snoopy hears people talking, that's what I think of the managers that can't stop micro-managing for one second and listen. I would respect a good manager but someone like you I ignore.

Originally Posted by smcassara

i do close one night a week, in a strip where the only other open business @ 9pm is a pizza place.

as a commissioned sales associate, you hold your earnings potential in your own hands.

i gave you one option to help increase your commission dollars, and instead you shredded my post. to prove your belief wrong, my sales associates and i visited every burger king in a 20 mile radius and distributed 340 flyers, and in that weeks time, we've had 27 of those flyers come back, adding up for 16 new lines, 3 pre pay activations, and 1 pick your plan. that comes out to just around 500 in payable commissions.

how's your tip jar doing?

Originally Posted by andy4310

Wow you have a bad attitude. If you worked in my store you would be fired.

I dont know about you but I come to work to make money... i always have. I never particularly liked working, in fact by nature I am a lazy person however I know that when I am at work I am there to do work.

As a commissioned sales person who also earns an hourly wage you are there to service customers AND sell to customers. Part of any REAL sales job includes some lead self-generation.

By the way... this isnt Google. Perhaps you would prefer a working environment such as Burger King... I hear BK employees get a discount on Cingular service too

Perhaps some day when you grow up you will also wake up, until then... good luck with your tip jar.

Originally Posted by leftcoastgsm

How would that equal $500?

Originally Posted by savinggrace

I love when managers tell me to grow up or that I have a bad attitude. That's the last resort of a poor manager. Please don't give me the flyer frack again. It does not work. Your store must have been doing really bad in order to resort to doing this kind of busy work. The good stores never have to flyer or do mailings. The "flyer manager" is in the dumpy store. Your store is the forgotten step-child of the Cingular retail. When you can't make your numbers, the ARM with little marketing skills tells you to flyer, so you comply. Sorry for you unfortunate location. Put out the Tip Jar. And lighten up for Pete's sake!

Originally Posted by andy4310

Why on earth would anyone want to pay $2.50 PER SONG from your cell company when you can get that same music so much cheaper anywhere else and then just put it on your phone???

Originally Posted by andy4310

Actually, my store is the best performing store in its district. Once again your problem is that you think that you know everything.

You have a bad attitude
You have bad taste
You are unprofessional
You are lazy and unmotivated
You should be fired

Originally Posted by savinggrace

I think we need to start thinking out side the norm to increase traffic. A mini bar at each desk would do wonders. Imagine a customer waiting forever for pokey OPUS to complete his transaction. He reaches into the Mini Bar and pops open a cool one. He relaxes and we hit him up for a half dozen more feature. Then, we are allowed to Bill With Service a pile of accessories and his drinks. We'd be ahead of SprintTel and Verizon for once. One thing that would increase sales is to bring back Bill With Service and the payment options. Right?

How much commission on a $5 can of been? Oh no, never mind, the company would probably put a quota on how many Imported beers vs. cheap beers.

Originally Posted by savinggrace

I think we need to start thinking out side the norm to increase traffic. A mini bar at each desk would do wonders. Imagine a customer waiting forever for pokey OPUS to complete his transaction. He reaches into the Mini Bar and pops open a cool one. He relaxes and we hit him up for a half dozen more feature. Then, we are allowed to Bill With Service a pile of accessories and his drinks. We'd be ahead of SprintTel and Verizon for once. One thing that would increase sales is to bring back Bill With Service and the payment options. Right?

How much commission on a $5 can of been? Oh no, never mind, the company would probably put a quota on how many Imported beers vs. cheap beers.