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One of my superiors is a snivelling, vindicative, point-scoring obsessed, sociopath. Otherwise known as a Business Development Manager.

Now as the fresh-faced young graduate coming into this flourishing business, I felt, right, this is a big business, if there's things that I want changed I can approach people in a private and confidential manner and tactfully put across my point that I think X is the correct way of doing things.

So the first thing I noticed in some of our Marketing "literature" (gawd I hate that term), is that we were utilising the infamous "comic sans" font. As a business that operates within the Premium Food & Drinks industry, I found this font to be slightly inappropriate.

As I've mentioned, we're all adaults here so on a one-to-one e-mail, when asked if any improvements can be made to the *ahem* literature, I simply stated that "I think perhaps a more professional/formal font could be utilised."

Well this didn't go down well. Apparently it didn't matter what I think, what matters is what the customer thinks. To top it all off, this time she copied the Maanging Director in, just to show that someone is a hard-ass and likes to bust balls through their day.

So a one-off bit of mentalry you may think? Wrong. The second incident, again copied inexplicably to the Managing Director, was when on a new customer invoice template, I had listed the Business name as "J & P Thomsons". My BDM gave me another e-mail bollocking as the Customer was actually "J & P Thomson" - there was no "s" at the end. Which really didn't matter one iota as we were merely using this as the address to send to the customer, and I'm sure the postman would post the fucking thing regardless of a stray "S".


The consequence was that the Managing Director phoned me directly, again to give me a bollocking that for the second time I had been in confrontation with the Business Development Manager and this was unacceptable. He hoped to see significant improvement in future!

I really wish I was embellishing here, but this is exactly what went down. If I had a set of balls I would quit right there and then, except I had fuck all cash and had to grin and bear it. But I did however make the decision to quit asap. Sadly I'm still here and my BDM is still a twunt, but in the next couple of months I'm making the big move, and good riddance to them. Thankfully she's moved on from punishing me for kicks, but it's like she has absolutely no human compassion and will find someone ANYONE to tread on to make herself look good.

This is the despicable world of Marketing people with a dash of office politics! Be warned!

Christ that was longer than I thought. No apologies for line breaks.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:28, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

APOLOGISE FOR YOUR LINE BREAKS YOU CUNT

(PsychoChomp, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:37, Reply)

Only if you apologise for being a girl
That secretes fishy blood from time to time
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 13:39, Reply)