I am the district manager of sales for a personal training company.
They recently created a new position for me, as we are expanding and are kind of at a stop as far as production. We are currently opening 3 more gyms, well sunday we had a meeting and decided that i would take more of an overall sales role among all the clubs. My current title is district manager, well my boss took that as i am to follow task and check lists. Well a few months into it, that is not my role and that was never to be my role. It pretty much took me out of the sales role completely. I hired and trained my sales managers that are currently in place at each location. The past 3 months we have seen the highest profits since the company opened a year ago.
Now fast foreward, they dropped me out of district after these past few months because one of my bosses believes he can do my job. So they want me to travel from gym to gym and sell. Now a few things wrong with this.
One: Floor sets are one way of getting infront of people, most of the time they have allready been pitched or declined the assessment. If i am a traveling salesman then there is no time to set floor sets as you must be in the club for a week depending on when people want set.
Two: taking my training directors sets and pulling from their pocket.
Three: Floor pulls, causing customer service complaints as i just interrupted your workout. I beat you up and i just asked you for more money and it was a total blind side.
Four: They follow through and pay my base while i write what i can without starving out the other employees untill hilliard opens in august and i go down to training director pay.
I see no good coming from this, when i could of just maintaned my current position as district manager of sales and maintained the company that i brought back from the dead.
Its funny 4 months of hard work i have increased their total sales from 221k to 683k. I have trained and hired every employee we have and set up the checks and balances systems.
I sent my boss an email asking for an explanation.