Great company, great people, and with opportunity to advance, yet a lot of bureaucracy. Between my qualifying and passing leads to the sales team in addition to my participation in the sales trainings I was told mgmt was impressed with my grasp of selling and the concepts of value based selling, and that I would be given an opportunity expanding my sales support role to a more full inside sales / telesales role. I was excited to be moving into a more important role with a greater impact on the company's wellbeing in having a chance to win business for the company. Yet a year later I was still not given that opportunity and then laid off due to the recession after receiving a great raise a few months prior. I definitely felt betrayed considering I had been loyal for 8 years and done nothing but move up the ladder consistently from a brainless administration position to actually being engaged with prospective clients, being challenged and getting to use my intelligence. I feel had I had that opportunity that I would have much success in winning business for the company and would prove myself more valuable to the company through my success which obviously equals theirs. I feel I would still have a job at this moment. I'm not sure if I blame the company or the manager hired I reported to who was new in mgmt, never managed anyone. I felt he did not fight for me the way my previous manager did and did not give me the resources or his personal time for my development. I was practically managing myself already as I was in full swing with my duties when he came in, it was just a matter of managerial restructuring that screwed me. Needless to say I may still have a job had I had my previous manager still looking out and fighting for me.
