• Maple Engineer
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    3 months ago

    Ugh. I’m a sales engineer. I work with an account executive. When she’s speaking to a client she often says, “blah blah blah u/MapleEngineer can expand on this” then just keeps talking. When I hear my name I come off mute, take a breath to speak, and she just…keeps…talking. I spoke to her about it and told her that when she says my name she should stop taking and let me explain. She kept doing it so I started just jumping in by saying, “Thanks, SalesWeasel, blah blah blah…” and speaking over her until she stops talking. She’s learning.

    • @SupraMario
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      213 months ago

      I feel your pain… don’t bring my name up and then ramble on for another 5mins and then expect me to go back to the 4 points you glossed over…

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        I believe it’s not necessarily unreasonable to expect you to just take notes of the points as they come up, and expand on them if requested by the client.

        It also doesn’t make sense that mentioning your name should prompt you to immediately start explaining shit. People can mention you or something about you and move on. Maybe just acknowledge it briefly.

        • @[email protected]
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          113 months ago

          That’s not the way it works though.

          I need to keep in mind what I am actually supposed to say, and what salesweasel got wrong. Then try to reconcile the two without making das weasel look bad.

          If you mention me by name, as opposed to ‘we’, ‘the team’, etc. I will believe my input is required, then I will want to clarify things and put them in the most unambiguous terms.

          Really though, I don’t want to be here, if you don’t need me (you talk over me, or diminish what I say) let me get on with things.

            • @Mango
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              103 months ago

              Are you lost?

              • @SupraMario
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                43 months ago

                ROFL he is very lost apparently.

                And it’s not even an autistic way to look at it. If I mentioned someones name, I pause for their input, cause I’m not a rambling sales idiot.

                • @[email protected]
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                  43 months ago

                  Interesting, I had never considered ‘stop being autistic’ as a choice. Thanks for that.

                  Unrelated, my girlfriend just got a dog, I like them, but I prefer cats. Should I tell the dog to reconsider its stance?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -23 months ago

                    You’d still be autistic, just as I am.

                    But you can change your response to hearing your name. Don’t stubbornly hold on to awkward behavior after you’ve identified it, you are perfectly capable of excising undesirable traits from your personality. You’re autistic, not retarded.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              Maybe people should just understand that you don’t @ me if you don’t want me to chime in. It’s actually pretty fucking rude.

              • @[email protected]
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                02 months ago

                It’s rude to mention your name in passing as someone who could help understand a part of a larger topic if necessary, while staying on the larger topic, instead of immediately diverting?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      53 months ago

      She does not want you to contribute, that’s just her stop-gap when she doesn’t know about something. But she wants to sell things, not educate people.

      • Maple Engineer
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        73 months ago

        She’s new and fairly tightly wound and feels the need to talk. I do the actual selling so she knows I need to talk and the places where she says that I can explain are the prefect places for me to talk for a couple of minutes. She getting better but I still catch her doing it sometimes. I Slack her when she does.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          33 months ago

          Ah okay. She definitely doesn’t know sales if she feels the need to talk all the time. Sales are made by asking questions and listening to the answers, not just dumping random information on potential buyers. That’s the mark of a poor salesperson.