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Dystopia with AI Tools

Hot off the presses: If you don’t hit your quota AND you aren’t hitting 80% metrics with the “modern selling tools” (namely SalesChat), you are put on a “coaching plan”…. AKA PIP.

So dystopian. I’ve hit my number every quarter over the past four years, but I guess that doesn’t matter. I guess I am being paid to use the $hitty half baked AI tools instead of to close business & spend time with customers.

I’m no fool. Dell will unrealistically quadruple my quota and then rejoice as it opens up a means to cut me w/o severance. Yay for OPEX reduction!

I will admit: these AI tools are great for less experienced folks, but more tenured individuals don’t need to use the tools as much as the metrics they are setting. They do not replace experience. Dell is definitely going to overrate here and expect a freshie out of college to have the same production as me with glorious sAlEsChAT at their side.

This place is going down quicker than the titanic, and I’m enjoying watching while I quite quit and manipulate the metrics.


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@OP fear not sales chat can help you write a browser script to automate your 25 weekly sales chats searches… you are welcome ;-)

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Post ID: @2be+1kb5z67ed

if that's a constraint in sales, I'm not in sales, make a rpa automation, I wouldn't have it pepper SChat all at once, or too much.. unless you want to test the politics and system for fun, put in random sleep or kick it off after each call or email and give your rpa client minimal context then it can enter the rest.

stupid metrics deserve stupid workarounds.

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Post ID: @10b+1kb5z67ed

I love all this sales nonsense.

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Post ID: @d4+1kb5z67ed

News Flash

Your sales performance has nothing to do with your skill

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Post ID: @af+1kb5z67ed

Quota’s a lottery, the numbers are fake, and now they want to grade us on clicks too. This is what it has come down to. Margin over humanity.

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