My numbers are pretty much in and cu is up 25% but overall revenue is down 30% in my territory. Anyone else seeing the same?
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Remember that one year in Texas during the NES... they trucked in cans of food and made everyone play games with the food, like build miniature golf vignettes, then stacked it all back on the truck and shipped it to homeless shelters? Never felt more ashamed in my life, they couldn’t just ship the food to the shelter they had to play games with it first. These people are sick.
The company spent a fortune on NES the year it was in bankruptcy. They’ve always been great at throwing money at frivolous nonsense.
Idky you all are freaking out looks like nes business as usual down south in Florida December this year. Doesn’t seem like the kind of move a financially stressed company would make
Serious question....can you guys tell us why you choose to stay at Cengage? It's a sellers job market out there right now. If you want to leave for a lateral or better (usually better) paying job, you can. What is it that is keeping you at Cengage?
Well, at least the lack of bonus this year will be more than made up for by that hefty salary they're paying you . . . right?
What really matters is how you are being bonused. Do you have a bonus plan and goal number in hand right now? What are they paying you on? Revenue increase? A Unit or combo or combo units/revenue Increase?
If you are operating under a normal bonus situation yet tasked with pushing the revenue-k–ling CU as a primary pursuit while on campus, it might be time for a professional re-think. It's great that you are helping your organization achieve its goals, but if you are not rewarded for your performance (and let's make no mistake - a 25% increase is a stellar result), then are you really in the right place?
Sometimes it is key to pay lip-service to the corporate directives and to really concentrate on what is going to earn you bonus monies. This is especially true of Hanson's Cengage, where the corporate initiatives can be every-changing and, at times, downright bizarre. If you are holding an old-school, revenue increase fueled bonus plan, it's probably most wise to pursue traditional takeaways as a primary pursuit and to reserve the roll out of CU for aging, installed and at-risk adoptions.
Michael Hanson and his iteration of Cengage have become something of a joke out here in the greater publishing world. This topic is one of several reasons why that is.
But think about how much money you've saved for the students!
pretty much the same, but I don't see how this is a winner for anyone.