Has anyone heard this song? I think it is the most beautiful piece of music in the world. For 36 minutes you are taken from spring to summer to fall to winter and back to Spring. It is the most incredible feeling. Notes dance off the page and you end up singing them during the day. It is the thing I wish everyone in my life to remember me by. I love it and I enjoy listening to it once, twice, three or more times a day. In fact, I want it played for my funeral, during the service and at the time of the service at the cemetary or the ocean. I think cemetarys are for families, and even though I do not have one, I wish to leave my money to foundations to help others achieve what their dreams are. After all, if I can make millions, anyone can do it.
Walt Disney once said "if you can dream it, you can do it. " Believe and succeed.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
I dumped the Gator Bowl position today. Mainly because I wanted my weekends back. As much as it seemed cool in May, it seemed to suck in August. Not because of the weather, but because, i wanted to do things with my wife, whom, I love more than anything in the world, she is my best friend. You need that in life, balance, and the GB, sorry is BS and HS for the most part. I plan to attend meetings and then say goodbye. Life goes on.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Do not drink booze on the field of an NCAA event
Where was this in the manual they gave me? I bust my ass, without so much as a thank you, and that is what I receive. To be honest, I should just stick with the work I do for them and shred the green jacket and send it back to them in pieces.
Ah, but to sell seats, $60 for VIP and $50 for all other. What a deal? I sell 50 seats for the FSU game and not even a "Thanks", from the damn people in charge. Without the local sales force, this game would stink and they really need some coaching on their part. Perhaps a good season by ND will inspire some local ticket sales, because the people there, upper and older, are tiring of having dogs each year, who picked Texas Tech anyway? They only sold 6,000 seats through their AA. What a joke!
Ah, but to sell seats, $60 for VIP and $50 for all other. What a deal? I sell 50 seats for the FSU game and not even a "Thanks", from the damn people in charge. Without the local sales force, this game would stink and they really need some coaching on their part. Perhaps a good season by ND will inspire some local ticket sales, because the people there, upper and older, are tiring of having dogs each year, who picked Texas Tech anyway? They only sold 6,000 seats through their AA. What a joke!
Friday, March 7, 2008
Why do people change?
Why is it that the father you had in HS is not the same you have in college, is not the same you have when the business was at 1422 San Marco, is not the same that was at 5211 Fairmont, is not the same at 7529 Salisbury?
What drives a man, who is recovering from Prostate Cancer to get in a truck and run the project from the truck? Why not pay people to do this work for the company? Why is there a need to micro-manage the work?
People follow leaders, if you micro-manage the business from the top down, what example do you show to others? Its OK for people to second guess you? The sales team? No. It ends somewhere here and you let people know what their places are and that is it.
I am so tired of the bull crap games!
What drives a man, who is recovering from Prostate Cancer to get in a truck and run the project from the truck? Why not pay people to do this work for the company? Why is there a need to micro-manage the work?
People follow leaders, if you micro-manage the business from the top down, what example do you show to others? Its OK for people to second guess you? The sales team? No. It ends somewhere here and you let people know what their places are and that is it.
I am so tired of the bull crap games!
Women in their place
I am by no means sexist, and I work with many women, and I love my wife, but there are som women, who do not know their place. If you and I were part of a team, we would all know our roles and responsibilities. I would not perform your work, and you would not perform mine, that would be unprofessional. So why would two women from a business unit side and an operations side, think that they know what is best for the sales side of an account?
All I asked of these people were to confirm the rates for the project and the scope of the work. I did not ask them to comment on the pricing or the plan of how we are to get paid. That was something for the VP of sales and the sales manager and I discuss. It was a sales issue. Getting paid on time over 3 months with a firm that we are trying to get more business from, means a lot to me.
The problem they have is that they do not go out and sell solutions. There is a reason, they are rough around the edges and have no couth for understanding how to sell. It is all black and white to them, and I could care less about them. I am the rep, I am in charge of the account and damn it, I am going to do it my way. Because I know best and because they are twits.
If I could, some days I would fire them and move on. I'd take their resignation and kick them to the curb. Some days my family does a piss poor job of identifying talent, but mistakes are bound to be made. I am not perfect either. Well mostly.
All I asked of these people were to confirm the rates for the project and the scope of the work. I did not ask them to comment on the pricing or the plan of how we are to get paid. That was something for the VP of sales and the sales manager and I discuss. It was a sales issue. Getting paid on time over 3 months with a firm that we are trying to get more business from, means a lot to me.
The problem they have is that they do not go out and sell solutions. There is a reason, they are rough around the edges and have no couth for understanding how to sell. It is all black and white to them, and I could care less about them. I am the rep, I am in charge of the account and damn it, I am going to do it my way. Because I know best and because they are twits.
If I could, some days I would fire them and move on. I'd take their resignation and kick them to the curb. Some days my family does a piss poor job of identifying talent, but mistakes are bound to be made. I am not perfect either. Well mostly.
Gator Bowl Staff
Who does the Bowl Staff think they are? A bunch of snot-nosed over paid punks run by the most arragant SOB of them all? One of my friends who works for the city told me that they only think of themselves, and he was right.
I get called in, not to be told, thanks for all you did, or what you sold, or your help for the game, but to be told that the college wants to charge the bowl for a box of items, valued at several thousands of dollars. I tell them that the club group was to have sent me a similar box, not my fault, hell his own damn freaking staff gave the box to me. Its not like I waltzed into the offices and started taking crap. What a super imposed prig of a person?
Then the grand-daddy of them all is the fact that last year, one of the bowl volunteers told me that he had been in charge of watching the president of one of the universities, and he was able to drink on the field all game long. I did not want to drink all game long, it was a long game seen by only like a few thousand people, mainly because the prig and his prima donna staff did nothing to encourage more LOCAL ticket sales, as I had suggested. So I walk by the security folks, WITH THE DRINK IN HAND. They could have stopped me, but did not. So I walked by and had 1 FRIGGIN DRINK on the field. So the prig calls me into class and tells me that I need to beg for forgiveness from him and others.
Anyone else had an egomaniac for a dictator? I had a friend of mine sell 4x his quota, asked for consideration for a position on the Prig's executive board, only to have him cut out from the "club", apparently he does not go to the right places, or is not seen by the right people. Who the hell knows. All I know is that the Prig and his band of over paid punks should ALL be thrown out and start over with new people. Clean house because it it smells at the top, you can be sure it smells in the trenches!
I get called in, not to be told, thanks for all you did, or what you sold, or your help for the game, but to be told that the college wants to charge the bowl for a box of items, valued at several thousands of dollars. I tell them that the club group was to have sent me a similar box, not my fault, hell his own damn freaking staff gave the box to me. Its not like I waltzed into the offices and started taking crap. What a super imposed prig of a person?
Then the grand-daddy of them all is the fact that last year, one of the bowl volunteers told me that he had been in charge of watching the president of one of the universities, and he was able to drink on the field all game long. I did not want to drink all game long, it was a long game seen by only like a few thousand people, mainly because the prig and his prima donna staff did nothing to encourage more LOCAL ticket sales, as I had suggested. So I walk by the security folks, WITH THE DRINK IN HAND. They could have stopped me, but did not. So I walked by and had 1 FRIGGIN DRINK on the field. So the prig calls me into class and tells me that I need to beg for forgiveness from him and others.
Anyone else had an egomaniac for a dictator? I had a friend of mine sell 4x his quota, asked for consideration for a position on the Prig's executive board, only to have him cut out from the "club", apparently he does not go to the right places, or is not seen by the right people. Who the hell knows. All I know is that the Prig and his band of over paid punks should ALL be thrown out and start over with new people. Clean house because it it smells at the top, you can be sure it smells in the trenches!
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