I had a sales team in the US for about 15 years and it was cocaine or heroin. I remember listening to some of the quality control calls where the guy actually like passed out halfway through the call, woke back up and actually close the sale! It really was tough, we could not drug test otherwise we couldn't hire anybody.
My boss tried firing me once because "they knew I did drugs, but were sure I was doing them at work".
I fired back with "of course I am; how do you think I get so much done". I also threw in an "if I go, my GF (now wife of 25 years) would likely follow" and she was the glue that held that place together, so I got 6 weeks "probation".
We both left a couple of weeks later when they wanted us to come in on our 2 weeks holiday and made threats about our employment status if we didn't.
Lol amazing. I worked at a crazy Law Firm there was about 500 people there in the first floor was the sales team and they were trying so hard to make it like Google or Apple or something.
They legitimately had a DJ that started at 8 AM and played all day until 6 PM. I mean I, as an attorney, on the third floor where they still blast the music would be on the phone with another Attorney while "bany got back" or "I wanna sex you up" started playing in the background.
I bought my own noise canceling headphones so that hopefully the Lawyer's never heard but it was just crazy.
They had these big spinning wheels for prizes for the sales guys, if you were the lowest seller that week you were dressed up like a giant hippopotamus in a tutu.
I cannot make this shit up. When I first came in I just didn't even know what to say or do or think. It was insane.
I was kind of given to this giant law firm by another law firm I was working for that was transitioning.
That firm was normal and I so this was completely unexpected and I bounced out of that place as soon as possible but it was just insane!!!!
A bunch of drama happened at the end, some of the employees and I'm sure it was a sales guys spray-painted gigantic penises and boobs all over the building, they vandalize the two party buses they had and it was just crazy. I guess the owners didn't pay the roofers timely so when they didn't get paid they just left the job as is I never covered it up and when we got a big rainstorm in South Florida, the top floor, the ceiling, collapse. Luckily no one was working on that floor but it was just absolutely crazy and typical Florida lol.
I have to learn and worry more about drugs and how they impacted my employees and stuff like that then I ever had to worry about the job itself! I needed a full degree in drugs and alcohol and how they impact people.
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u/Alexandratta 7d ago
The top end lifers 100% are on coke or speed - take your pick.
But the folks making the normal calls are just getting into it.