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this is a funny comment. when you go to DFW, you are seeing family and not really visiting it as a city. When you come to NYC, it's the other way around even if you see family in NYC or around it. You are coming for the place. I've lived in Dallas, my mom lives there part of the year. There is nothing interesting to me in Dallas. NYC, like a London or Paris is interesting for more than the people.

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this isn't the flying cars we were promised but it'll have to do https://jalopnik.com/this-blowjob-machine-designed-for-teslas-on-autopilot-i-1844296987

anyone else phoning it in for July? I have deals in play to make my year this month

We have something like this, but more sleek, modern, fancy, that we got as a gift But I use this:

Circle ATX hat in Burnt Orange would be nice

I'm from Austin you dumbfuck. 78731

You should not talk about things you do not know about. As example, I live "back East" and I have an acre and if we move will lilely get something thats two acres. Every lot in my neighborhood is at least an acre, same for the next one.

cancelled trips to SXSW, South of France and Venice, but I am renting a house in East Hampton and have a trip to Cape Cod. lots of sanitizer and use of masks

closed a $3.1m order today, it pays in accelerators and is weighted to $1.25 per actual dollar for the product. so that's really a $3.8m order for commission purposes. nice friday.

must be the shoes

I was actually thinking of getting a shit box pellet smnoker as a throw away from a summer rental house

Industry: Data Protection...Crypto and Key Mgmt.

50k sign-on at the next joint? maybe, it's currently being discussed.

I agree

I hate where I work but I'm making really good money. I hate it, everything except my SE and what i sell. I think I'm going to close a couple more deals then bounce, leaving a big chunk of money behind, about $50k net. Money I would get if I stayed till the end of the year. If I exceed my # I get paid everything now and at accelarators so the "leave behind: is double. I only want to achieve that for spite. thats how bad I hate it. I'm an awful person

SLED business tends to peak in June so I doubt they are cutting back

yeah, we already did the reverse in that my original employer in this space merged into the French outfit and our CEO took the reigns and our culture took over. All boats rose on that tide. Now it's the other way around and it's awful. I'm sticking around to close a couple large opps however I'm already looking.

So this is a fun week. Last year we acquired a larger entity than us and our business unit was also rolled up into (really just deeper integration) another BU. The company we acquired was larger, had more bodies and more process (bureaucracy) and the home boys in France think this was/is a good thing so, acquired management team are running the show, and running it poorly. The guy at the helm (a french turd) brought in a Danish turd to be the Global SVP Sales. French turd has been here a year, Danish turd three months. the turds decided on Monday to fire the Americas VP of Sales because we had a bad Q1 and are forecasting a bad Q2. Q1 was due to things like SFDC being offline for us for 7 wks, new products w/out training, new and not fully defined accounts lists, a Q4-19 being huge. Q2 is going to off b/c Covid-19. the Americas VP has been here six years and under his leadership we always beat our #'s. this is politics so they can have their own dog on a leash. it's dumb, these guys are idiots. Did I mention its APRIL 22 and we still don't have comp plans? one of my old Managers is the CRO at an interesting infra play, I think We will get the bank back together in Q3

the spice must flow

no but they are assholes

If you work for a French company with a name that is always mispronounced, then probably yes

They are breaking us up into two groups, A and B, each gets three weeks of furlough, so it's every other week. It's complete bullshit. Our business is not down due to C-19, in fact it's all our own doing and and it would not warrant this action, this is just convenient cover. the other BU's might need to take this action, but not the Info-sec group I am in. lots of issue sto unpack. If we were a stand alone unit as we were last year, this would not be happening. The argument of "we are always working even when on PTO" is crap, when I'm working on a deal sitting in the beach in Aruba its by choice and to get a deal done. its my time and my dime. This is "keep working and use your earned vacation money to get paid or don't get paid" expecting me to work and progress my business and use my PTO to fund my base pay is shitty. If I take the time off and don't work, I negatively impact my earning potential. it's a lose lose as I won't have that much more earned paid time off. what if the mothership or my BU decides to do layoffs? then I have used up some of the vacation pay that I had in the bank and won't receive it as "walking money". bear: leadership? leadership? what's that. when we acquired this competitor they put their guy in the drivers seat. he was getting beat, he got acquired and he somehow won out. He's a french tool. he has dreams of all this being "self service" and thinks you scale by hiring more people. Both companies did about the same revenue and we did it with a fifth of the Sales force. their a bunch of stooges. I'm hear to close two more large deals, then I'll be six years in and ready for a new thing.

more fun... I finally know my quota but still don't have the final Comp Plan and Sched A. So I don't know the actual Q by Q quota. it's fucking April? My quarter and many other Reps have had a shit Q1 largely due to the companies own making. Systems that don't integrate, unneeded new systems and processes, name changes, etc. it's been a fucking mess. pair this up w/ the Pandemic and wait for it.......furloughs. Spun as a way to stave off layoffs. We ar enow part of a larger BU and this is their doing, I suspect if we were still a stand alone, this would not be happening. over a six week period, they want us to work 3 weeks on, three weeks off, so on/off every other week. Umm...I'm in Sales, how the fuck does that work? if I want full base salary I need to burn 120 Hours of PTO. what a fucking joke.