I find it offensive that people can slander you after an event they had no interest in participating in. I’ve been working on two projects that have an international component to it: one is a VIP account of ours globally, the other is a strategically important account ranging from China to Australia to New Zealand.
What frustrates me is how these respective account leads had no input whatsoever when we were busting our chops trying to submit the proposal, though we had called them and asked for help, and how our global accounts are dealing with all these issues. Now that it’s been submitted, they have the nerve to sit there and tear apart the submission, asking why, why, why did we think of doing it this way? Don’t we realise it’s an important account, and all the senior global directors/CEOs etc.. are reviewing it?
I mean, what the?! For the VIP account, we had four days to turn over the bid, because our global team sat on it for two weeks before forwarding it to us. I mean, seriously?! Add to that, we got answers to our clarification questions 57 minutes before the submission was due on Friday evening. I mean, seriously?!
Gosh, I’m frustrated. I'm actually quietly seething, to be honest. I just can't stand people being this slack when the pressure is on, and questioning our work when the pressure is off. That I don't believe in. If you want to be a part of it, then stay back and work it out with us. Or, come in early and let's catch up 6am to get agreeance on it. Don't do the, 'I'm too busy to review this; I have no time for you', and then come back a week later asking, 'why did you do that?' I didn't see any of them come in early to meet with us, when we were here 6am trying to get this done last week. We've even had a senior manager ask why this wasn't escalated to him, when he delegated one of his staff to sign off on it. Does that make sense to you? If it's that important, why would you delegate it to someone else?
Gosh, I'm frustrated. I've had to sit here and justify my numbers. I don't like people telling me my numbers are wrong without even looking at them, and tearing apart my lovely genius piece of work that I created without actually looking at the numbers.
Anyway, I have to stop complaining about this stuff. It's not doing me any good. I just needed to vent. I just need to take a step back, take a few deep breaths, not take it personally, and get on with convincing them we did the best we could under the circumstances. Ironically, if we manage to pull this one off, we'll be seen as legends in growing a strategically important account. If we don't, then.. I don't even want to think about that scenario...
Not happy, Jan.
What frustrates me is how these respective account leads had no input whatsoever when we were busting our chops trying to submit the proposal, though we had called them and asked for help, and how our global accounts are dealing with all these issues. Now that it’s been submitted, they have the nerve to sit there and tear apart the submission, asking why, why, why did we think of doing it this way? Don’t we realise it’s an important account, and all the senior global directors/CEOs etc.. are reviewing it?
I mean, what the?! For the VIP account, we had four days to turn over the bid, because our global team sat on it for two weeks before forwarding it to us. I mean, seriously?! Add to that, we got answers to our clarification questions 57 minutes before the submission was due on Friday evening. I mean, seriously?!
Gosh, I’m frustrated. I'm actually quietly seething, to be honest. I just can't stand people being this slack when the pressure is on, and questioning our work when the pressure is off. That I don't believe in. If you want to be a part of it, then stay back and work it out with us. Or, come in early and let's catch up 6am to get agreeance on it. Don't do the, 'I'm too busy to review this; I have no time for you', and then come back a week later asking, 'why did you do that?' I didn't see any of them come in early to meet with us, when we were here 6am trying to get this done last week. We've even had a senior manager ask why this wasn't escalated to him, when he delegated one of his staff to sign off on it. Does that make sense to you? If it's that important, why would you delegate it to someone else?
Gosh, I'm frustrated. I've had to sit here and justify my numbers. I don't like people telling me my numbers are wrong without even looking at them, and tearing apart my lovely genius piece of work that I created without actually looking at the numbers.
Anyway, I have to stop complaining about this stuff. It's not doing me any good. I just needed to vent. I just need to take a step back, take a few deep breaths, not take it personally, and get on with convincing them we did the best we could under the circumstances. Ironically, if we manage to pull this one off, we'll be seen as legends in growing a strategically important account. If we don't, then.. I don't even want to think about that scenario...
Not happy, Jan.
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