Avoid working in Toxic Companies.

Of all the companies that I worked with One leading detergent power-making company was the worst.

I got attracted because of the Brand name.

But within 7 days of joining, I sensed the "Pressure Cooker" working environment.

The VP of sales used expletive-laden language and was clearly one of the most insecure persons I ever worked with.

The company had "Achieve sales targets at all costs".

The pressure to achieve the target started from early morning calls from VP sales or calls at the late evening.

It was toxic.

The pitfalls of the "pressure cooker" working environment were:

- Unhappy😣 employees and thus..

- Unhappy 😣customers.

- Bad sales behaviors

- Poor sales hygiene with parties dumping stocks in the territory of other distributors.

- High employee turnover. The company hired and fired💥 people by droves every month.

- It remains the only company to my knowledge that hired sales folks in droves every month.

I knew I was in a company full of landmines of politics, and backbiting.

But I persisted as I did not want to spoil my resume.

Managed teams for close to three years in that company.

But I was burnt out during those 3 years. Why?

Because i did not adopt their culture because I knew this type of working culture won't work in other companies.

Swimming against the tide had a big effect on my attitude and psychology.

Poor and insecure sales leader lead by fear.

Achieving targets at any cost is a sure sign of an org that does not respect its employees and its distributors.

Such culture smacks of bloodthirsty Selfishness.

Such a culture makes salespeople treat their customers as TOOLS to achieve targets & not as humans.

Such myopic leadership breeds customer and employee dissatisfaction.

No point in burning relationships with key stakeholders in sales revenue just for sake of "Achieving targets at any cost".

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