Ye Gods, but this must end soon
Those of you who check timestamps will note that this entry was posted during working hours. I am, yet again, home from work early because there was no work.
This month is looking particularly bad for us. In part, I think the problem stems from Back-to-School shopping – people are already in the stores, and I think they are more willing to simply replace a problem PC than fix a problem unit that is probably a couple years old. (Last year wasn’t a good year for sales, so there are aging PC’s out there.)
This may translate into a handful of on-site configuration calls, but it will mostly be bad for biz. This leaves me facing a potential loss of income as my boss cuts hours due to revenue loss.
Fucking yay.
The rest of the problem is directly related to my boss’ inability to either implement a sales plan of his own or find someone to do it for us. Our Managed Services package is a solid product, but that doesn’t help much if no one can sell the damn thing.
At least the day wasn’t a total waste, as I did find a handful of jobs to apply for.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Man, it’s just been that kind of week (or fill-in-the-blank period of time you see fit to use). I spent almost the entire day fiddling around trying to do something, anything, productive at all.
On one hand, I’m glad I’m not the guy responsible for drumming up new business. (That’d be the guy in the next office over.) On the other, until things break nobody wants to call me…
August 13th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Erp. What is it with this year being “that kind of…”? Good luck with the jobhunting, one of use needs to get lucky with it.