Oh, that's so totally biased against salespeople, isn't it? But the basic premise is true for anything, right? So long as it doesn't have a negative impact on me, let's do everything and anything to help me. We're all looking out for number one, unless we're Mother Teresa. [And, if we're Mother Teresa, we're dead and not reading this.]
Back to Priscilla and Sylvia. Sylvia wanted marketing to give away the store to lure an advertiser. Priscilla didn't want to give away the store because that would impact her ability to give away store parts to other advertisers (who weren't Sylvia's). That annoyed Sylvia mightily. In fact, when Priscilla sent an email detailing why she wasn't going to do something, Sylvia was fed up. She had had it with Priscilla. And she complained about Priscilla mightily in an email to others.
Only instead of forwarding the email to the others, she sent the complaint email about Priscilla to Priscilla .
Oops.
Do you know how horrible Sylvia felt? Sick-to-her-stomach horrible. Because she and Priscilla had never had a decent relationship; in fact, in Sylvia's mind, Priscilla was always hindering Sylvia's progress. Priscilla, quite frankly, was a bitch in Sylvia's eyes.
But you can't both work at
The end.
Or the beginning.
1 comment:
Which of us hasn't pulled that classic email error at some point... sent the message to the person we were writing about rather than the one we intended? My younger sister sent one to my older sister that was intended for me. The fallout from that still hasn't been resolved. I think that these ladies handled it the very best way, rather than slinking by each other for years to come, they chose to confront it head on and go forward tentatively from there. I am also a direct person, so I relate to approaching things this way. Bravo for them, we could all learn a lesson here!
Post a Comment