Monday, January 2, 2012

Picture me Portrait Studio

I was contacted by the corporate office Human Resources director.
Thank you for your response...forgive me if I have no faith in this action...I really do not see that anything will be done and the damage is already done.  You can look for my Tweet's about this and your company..I am curious to see how many others this has happened to.  I know of at least 10 people in my area alone.  I plan to research the employment laws here in Tennessee to see if this is even legal.  I also intend to start a blog about my experience with Picture me Portrait Studios.  In this economy I can not understand why an employer would take excellent employees and treat them in this manner.  I also can not understand why employees would not value there fortune in having a job, just as I did.  In my brief experience with your company, it seems they had a great deal of trouble getting the employees they had to even come to work.  Answer their phones or even respond to a text.  So employees like me picked up the slack happily.  Those people are curiously still employed  while I on the other hand am writing this e-mail.  I have obtained the names and the address for all of your board of directors, and company officers and intend to send them the same e-mail.  I have no doubt that I am wasting my time but never the less intend to pursue this matter. When I questioned my District Manager about this she gave me a speech that sounded as if she were reading from a script.  So that tells me that she herself was trained to do business in this manner.  I have an excellent employee and sales record.  The training I received completely undermined my confidence in my own abilities, shame on me for allowing that to happen.  We do live in an economically depressed area making it difficult to find jobs where those skills are valued.  I counted my self lucky to have found a company I believed valued those skills, in sales, customer service and marketing, and I thought appreciated my experience and maturity, I was very wrong. Again thank you very much for your prompt response, as I said I have no faith that this will even do any good and the damage to myself and my family has already been done.  I will say I have sent several e-mails to my district manager, with no response...I have only been told she does not know what will happen to my job, but that she can not let everyone go she will have no one, and that is it is performance  based...having been in the studio only two weeks and having any attempt at selling taken over by the "manager in training"  I do not know how anyone's performance could possibly be evaluated. I am sure there will be a valid " factious" excuse for this kind of behavior.   I am sure my abilities will come under attack.   Unfortunately that is the kind of behavior that comes with competitive sales.  I will say does not allow for good customer service.  I am as competitive as the next person and would not have been successful at sales if I were not, but I know that the customer comes first and refuse to argue in front of a customer.  So when my manager in training behaved in this manner, I let it go, until we were in private.  Losing a customer for a company over petty competitiveness  is not the way business should be done. I will not say I am the best in my field...there is always someone better, but I have done quite well at every sales job I have ever had and I have been treated with respect.  Again thank you for your time. 

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