And, side track abit, normally people in sales are provided with extra allowances for car, transport etc.
What kind of job specifically will company provide extra allowances?
Sales department is the most useless.Throw all the hardwork to backend,wine and dine with customer
The sales department is the most useless.
From what I observe in many companies, sales job are the most relax jobs around. Report show face to office in the morning, afternoon disappear. They can even dont report to work and openly go wine and dine, or play golf with customers on company's expense. Sometimes can even stay at home to sleep. And the boss wont care less. When the sales are down, they blame the economy, blame the product except themselves.
And the technical/back end guys have to slog to meet the project dateline, rush for delivery. Program and debug the software till the cows come home. Work OT like a dog and dont get paid extra OT pay. Sometimes even worse, the sales guy promise the customer the earth and the sky, and the poor technical guy have to find ways and means to deliver as promised by the sales guy.
At the end of the day, the boss will usually compliment the sales guy for securing the order. They get promoted faster. While the technical/back end guy get only a peanut 5% increment. Sometimes not enuff to even beat inflation.
Oh yea, not forgetting their transport allowance. A fresh grad with $3k can earn additional $1k with transport allowance. Where got so good, fresh grad earn $4k?
Comparing the amount of work and hours sales people have to put in to technical/back end people, do you think it is unfair? Do you face this situation at work too?
GPGT,see them wine and dine with customer like this
