Today is diversion topic day. Today, I'll divert from the main topic (the car) to what's happening with me. Before we return back to worlds longest build thread.
Awhile back, I talked about converting from Genius into sales. It was Jan 1 MOF. After talking with the local Chrysler Jeep dealership at the end of our road, I was seriously considering jumping off the whole BMW brand as well.
But my co-workers talked me into staying,..."Why throw away your knowledge of the brand when it will come to serve as your "ace in the hole" If you start selling?" was the argument.
So I went to the GM, told him I wanted to sell, and that I want/needed more money and negotiated a "training salary" of 4k x 2 months to get me familiar with the process before going to straight commission after that.
Then sat around waiting on the GM to hire my replacement.
And waited through the end of January, and through the whole month of February, all the while never seeing one applicant come into his office for an interview. It was like there was no sense of urgency, and that they'd consider replacing me when they got around to it, all while they required that I remain in my current status.
Well,....that changed yesterday........I took another sales job with a different manufacturer in our complex.
Only now it'll be Italian cars instead of German ones.
My company doesnt know it yet, this just happened last night. I still have to go through the pre-lims to be truly "hired" by the Alfa Romeo/Maseratti/Fiat dealership. But I can't imagine anything stopping it from happening.
It's a lesser volume, higher commissions alternative to selling a BMW. It's a brand new facility instead of the run-down neglected one I work in now. Instead of selling cars named by a number and a letter, I'll sell cars named after a woman, and a road.
Their SUV is built on the same platform as the car, and is named after a twisty mountain pass in the Italian Alps...( Stelvio) Only the little coupe that looks like an old Lotus gets a number and a letter for a name...( 4c)
The irony of this whole thing is that the sales mgr here comes to me last night with a pile of resumes...these are the applicants competing for my job. I am in essence choosing my replacement...only they don't know it yet.
I'm optimistic, and hopeful. I'm up for the change.
I shouldve been born 40 years later....Millenials are the ones with the "job jumper" rep.
