I am jealous of my boss. Not of much, but I am jealous. I think it's probably the position that she holds...in contrast to the postition that I hold.

I'm just the secretary.

I work as the "Administrative Assistant" for a distributing company here in D-Town. We're repsonsible for the distribution of MET-Rx and World Wide Sports Nutrition bars, shakes, and other chemical substances people use to "enhance" their work-outs (/:rolleyes: ) Anyway...I'm grateful for the job because it's given me a lot of freedom I haven't yet found in other jobs, and it's gotten me interested in Sports Nutrition, fitness, etc...

And lately there's been all this talk about my boss (a.k.a. the BOOKKEEPER b/c she's not a liscensed CPA) going more into the "sales" side of the business. If you're not familiar with her, please refer to this (http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=39141) for reference. That being linked...and her having the mentality that "Oh, if I just drink this protein shake or eat this protein bar, that will *cancel out* the double cheeseburger I ate for lunch today..." I just cannot figure out why SHE gets to go into sales. (In fact I can hear them discussing their Burger King run for lunch...)

Not that I'm so interested in marketing...but we picked up a new line, Amino Vital, and it's a product directed more at endurance-type athletics rather than GETTING RIPPED. And we just landed this big account...Runner's Roost stores...and she gets to go meet with them and REGURGITATE SH!T SHE'S READ FROM THE PAMPHLETS. All the while, I'm the one that put the mailer together, product samples and sales sheets, and sent it off to this place...I'm the one who actually runs and uses the products (the ones that I can) as they're meant to be used (prepare/recover), rather than to /erase the two Hershey bars I just consumed...

I'm just venting. I'm just upset b/c even though I'm not some marketing major, I still have enough sense to know that people buy YOU as much as they buy the product. Though I guess since she fake-bakes and wears "THESE CUTE LITTLE RUNNING SHOES OFF OF E-BAY FOR $50!!!!" that makes her sales-rep material. But not me. Nope. Not the one who actually gives a crap what they eat and works out an average of 5-6 days/week...

...after all, I'm just the secretary.

/end rant

/please excuse emotional whining due to hormonal excess, kthx.

:nigel: C.

Well, how much you know and how well you understand (insert product/business area here) means nothing in marketing. It's how well you can talk to people and make them feel good about themselves even as you tell them they're idiots. Or how well you can make yourself think like someone else.

Think of it this way...she's really, really good at being someone else. You are just you. So which would you rather be? :up:

This is why I am SO glad I don't work in sales...or anything else that involves turning a profit.

Well, how much you know and how well you understand (insert product/business area here) means nothing in marketing. It's how well you can talk to people and make them feel good about themselves even as you tell them they're idiots. Or how well you can make yourself think like someone else.

Think of it this way...she's really, really good at being someone else. You are just you. So which would you rather be? :up:

This is why I am SO glad I don't work in sales...or anything else that involves turning a profit.

Fair enough...but I guess my biggest issue is with her "handling sales" is that I've heard her on the phone trying to push a product, and she's practically reading from a script...which I realize everyone has a "plan o' action" and whatnot but...she can't even do it in a convincing manner. SHE'S SIMPLY READING THE BROCHURE ALOUD. And that gets on my nerves...

...plus the fact that, like I said, this particular product is directed more towards "endurance" athletics/sports and she's the woman who believed that putting on two sweatshirts and hitting the treadmill "at a lower speed is a good form of cardio"...

Wrong, Miss Priss. It's a decent form of sweating :wall:

:nigel: C.

I've been in similar situations and it's really very frustrating. Frankly the only option you have is to build up your resume making sure you put in all you've done and get another job with more growth potential.