I am in sales and sales people are measured by their goals. We plan our year out accordingly. Since I have been working here they have never gotten out our goals with in the first 6 months of the year. This is extremely frustrating because the sales reps have to play a cat and mouse game with management and with their customers. I have known reps to hold orders for months before they submit the order just so they don't get nailed on their goal. Also it gives the management time to evaluate your performance and base your current year that your in before they give you your goal. That's like cheating. Sales is based on previous (year, month, quarter) sales not lets see what you have done so far for your year and then if your way up we give you a huge goal that now you only have 6 months (if your lucky, one year we didn't get them until September) to achieve. Also before when we were owned by Thomson one of the reasons why so many people worked there was because of the "Perks". People were willing to work for a little less money as long as they were treated right, given some special treatment... Not anymore. They have all disappeared. I realize that a company wouldn't increase our pay because of it but now we are making the same money as before (which by industry and area standards is no where near it should be) and now we are with out the perks we once had.
