Pros
You could make 6 figures without really selling anything and there was a simple formula for success! Shamelessly ingratiate yourself with the self-congratulatory, self-promoting Sales and Marketing leadership charlatans who relentlessly perpetuated a good story about “blowing up” and “disrupting” the industry by sycophantically liking and sharing every social media post they produced. Flattery and imitation could get you everywhere it seemed. Don’t forget to throw out “props” to everyone else around the company for basically doing their jobs. Everyone and everything are “Awesome!” To achieve your quota, you simply needed to be a good storyteller and convince new partners, who are in many cases already buying and using what you are selling, to buy it from you instead of somewhere else by offering them a cheaper price. It’s sort of like reselling discounted Netflix or Spotify subscriptions and then making the grandiose claim that you are disrupting the entire streaming media industry because customers can now buy both services from your website instead. But there is a catch, if they had a problem with either service, your partner would call you for help because they can no longer call Netflix or Spotify directly. Don’t worry though, you could pass on those problems to others around the company so you could continue your storytelling and earn cash! Cast your skepticism aside, and potentially your ethics, and you could do very well!
Cons
There were too many sales and marketing bro’s with pretty boy man buns who evidently believed that office administrators were there to be their mothers by cleaning up their messes in the kitchen and ordering their lunch deliveries. Narcissism and immaturity were rampant. The pretentiousness and posturing at all levels could be nauseating at times. You had to be very careful not to express your own thoughts or opinions or you will be shunned as a heretic. If your working style and habits didn’t imitate the practices of the Anointed ones, IE; including the incessant use of whiteboards to “visualize” your thoughts, multicolored sticky notes arranged in columns to track your “To Do” and “Doing” tasks, etc., then you simply did not fit in. Make your whiteboard renderings as busy and complicated looking as possible and leave them up for everyone to see. It would make you appear smarter. As for those tasks on sticky notes, the more the better. They too will make you look more important and busier than everyone else. Attend every meeting you are invited to and be sure to bring your laptop so that you can work on other things during the meeting. Ask a question or two so that you can appear to be engaged while not really listening, then you can continue to safely pound away at your keyboard answering emails.
