So I work in Residential Real Estate Sales in an upmarket Harbour side area of Sydney, extreamely expensive Harbour side Mansions along with more budget style apartments. Our sales team is quite new but we all have many years experience, one or two of the members of our sales team are both lazy & incompetent fool who blatantly refuse to do any real work, no prospecting or staying behind after hours. They just fail to realise that they ARE part of a team where EVERYONE needs to contribute towards our Growth & Success, these two idiots must go ! Should I raise my concerns with the Boss or just grin and bear it ? Some nights I go home with an aching Headache because they both, one inparticular do NOTHING all day but distract and talk NON-SENSE, even as I speak. Everyone is entittled to a little down time and chatting but this person sends me home with a migrane ! PLEASE HELP !!!
Yes I am permanently employed I earn the award wage (retainer) plus a luxrative commisssion structure, over the past 4 years I have averaged $150K AUD (WHICH IS ABOUT $130K USD). So i’m no idiot, I actually left a teaching career due to low pay !
It’s not sour grapes, I just dislike stupidity coming from both these lazy women who do nothing but talk nonsense. ALL SALES PEOPLE WITHIN A WINNING TEAM WORRK TOGETHER BTW INORDER TO RAISE THEIR BRAND AWARENESS AND MARKET DOMINANCE WITHIN THEIR COLLECTIVE PATCH ie, location ! Thats how they can earn as much as a GP and 5 times what a teacher makes here ! Therefore if your slacking off and interupting everyone all the time your not only hurting yourself but ME if i’m on your team ok !
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Ask if there is going to be a quota system to where all the members of the team will be pulling their own weight. By going about it in a roundabout way, the higher ups will start to look at performance and make adjustments.
why havent you said anything before, i dont put up with it neither should you there’s working and then there’s firing his ass
Are you the only menmber of the team that is peeved about this? If not a group of you need to get together and voice your concerns with the manager. If you go it alone it could be taken as sour grapes and that could make things bad for you at work.
By the appearance of this post you are not on permanent staff. Do you just get paid commission?
If this is the case these other workers are in the same boat & would really be only harming themselves if they were as claimed.
You should be pleased that they are ‘incompitent’ idiots!! They would make you look better & your sales figures would show them up.
I have yet to meet a real estate agent yet who works in a ‘team’. They are all individuals who jealously guard their contacts etc & share nothing with other sales members with whom they work.
If such behaviour gives you migranes I suggest you seek alternative employment.
If somebody asks for your opinion and you don’t mind taking responsibility for whatever comes out of your mouth, go ahead and fire away.
Apart from that I think you’d be better off realizing you’re not the manager and it isn’t primarily your problem.
I would bring up the issue with your boss, because you are in a very competative and team-based work environment, everyone needs to be pulling their weight, and if this co-worker doesn’t, they may not even realize that they are holding everyone else back…so a good talk with the boss would probably be your best recourse