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Yes this is a true story. A friend of mine was lucky to land a job at a staffing firm in a sales position. This was a small firm and the job was suited to her talent very much. Suddenly, I receive an email from her saying that an opportunity was available that she was pursuing and to be alert to a phone call for reference. I was skeptical, is she JUMPING jobs already? Not happy? I asked her what was going on, it seemed odd. Well, she told me that she joined the company on Monday and exactly 7 days later, 7 days, was called into the office and told that she did not generate enough business and that it wasn't working out. Unless the guy was lying to her because they personally didn't like her or was threatened by her incredible talent, this is one for the books. Gee, she didn't bring enough clients in one week for you to pay your bills for your newly renovated marble strewn office? Or maybe you thought she had a BIG book of business that would automatically become yours by bringing her on? Then, of course when you "had" her clients, you would terminate her.

People like that should be out of business and deserve to be. Using salespeople like commodity books and churning them. And, we are expected to move to a relationship oriented, less transactional culture by doing that? And, the salesperson gets cut and doesn't take the clients and book to another firm? And this works out win-win for who? It takes months for a good salesperson to establish themselves and build a strong marketbase, not a week. A week!

Hopefully, this agency will fold like the many others that have. Hopefully, my friend will get a real job with a good company that will value her talent and enable her to build their company. Let's not work for people like that or with companies that do that and restore professionalism to the business environment!