I work in a job where there are 3 of us doing a sales type role and another 10 people that do a customer service type role.
I work part time, the other 2 people doing sales with me work full time.
There is a manager who manages us all, but 99% of the time he is managing the customer service staff, not the sales staff.
It’s got to the point that it is solely down to me that we are meeting our sales targets.
I don’t believe the other 2 staff on my team are particularly sales minded, even the member of staff who is paid a bit extra to ensure we are meeting our targets and giving us our brief each week (just to be clear this person is one of us “3” that make up the sales team)
Anyway, over the past couple of weeks I’ve become mightily annoyed that in my 15 hours a week I am achieving 95% of our sales target, while the 2 other staff members make up the other 5% combined.
So I’ve started blowing my own trumpet to the general manager who probably wouldn’t know this fact otherwise.
Manager today “you’ve had a really good sales week this week”
Me “yes in 15 hours I’ve achieved 95% of those sales” etc etc.
Consistently over the past 10 months I have been approximately 80% more productive than them each month and I work less than 50% of the hours that they do.
Anyway now I feel a bit bad, like I’m slagging off my 2 team members, but in all honesty they are pretty crap. It annoys me most when the member of staff that briefs us weekly puts things on the brief like “we must try harder with sales next week” as I think to myself, yes you 2 must work harder as it’s me carrying the whole sales team.
Manager has said that he’s going to give them a kick up the arse but now I’m worried I shouldn’t have said anything.