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Re: The top 10 best (and worst) CEOs and companies in Seattle

#150 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:44:00 -0000

flabbergassed which division do you work in, and how much do you make?

you seem like a small town gangster trying to impress, pretty sure you are little time trying to talk big. If you are so awesome, why not use your name? Greatness inspires, and you sure think you are great.

Re: The top 10 best (and worst) CEOs and companies in Seattle

Ha Ha # 148 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:22:00 -0000

I am sure you are glad email has spell check. That saves you from looking like the dipshit you are. I second the Fucktard. If Zones is about what you can provide than it is a battle LOST. Do everyone a favor and shut up.

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HOLY SHIT~ — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:51:00 -0000

IT'S SPELLED FLABBERGASTED -- YOU FUCKTARD

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# 148 is an idiot — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:05:00 -0000

You are an asshole. I worked for Zones for many, many years and made/saved the company TONS of money while doing my job with stellar ability and I CARED. I did not deserve to be let go because I sucked. You ever think that other reasons (boss is an idiot and lives in the correct geographic area) could come into play. There are many people at Zones and ones that have been let go that would kick your sorry ass because they KNOW your words are not true in my situation. Actually I probably pulled your lame backside out of some unsavory situations and made you look good to your customer. So, you are a MF and if I saw you right now I would KICK your lame ass. There are people Firoz oppointed to "run" the company who are watching it go into the toilet with not care in the world.
You are a dumbass, and you too will see the light someday.

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So Sad — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:14:00 -0000

FLABERGASSED: You must be an angry drunk or clinically insane to actually believe anything you wrote. At least half of the posts here are from support people who were let go due to outsourcing or that lovely phrase management uses "your position has been eliminated". Get off your high horse and enjoy going down with the Zones ship.

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FLABERGASSED — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:56:00 -0000

haha! Far from genius pal! I create my own money 149. Jacola left on his own terms and made more money than most people there. Do you think he got there by BSing with people, or do you think his hard work paid off? He was hardly in the office and had face time with customers and worked hard for his money. Keep thinking that talk time doesn't matter and you will find yourself looking for a job soon.

Friken Idiot

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flabbergasted maybe? — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:53:00 -0000

Nice, its easy to take words from such genius. Not even a word into your post and we know why you are preaching your own greatness.

COMPENSATION

p.s. what was Jaccolas average talk time? Oh that's right, it doesn't matter!

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FLABERGASSED — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:11:00 -0000

I hope all you idiots listen for a minute! If someone is pissed off and venting here it is one of two things.... they either got let go because they SUCK or they are not making enough money because THEY SUCK. A job is no free ride and I see it all the time at Zones, people rely on a base thinking that is what they make per year; you can raise your income if you actually do your job and do it well,of course I am talking sales. To all you friggen free loaders that bitch, you have no reason to bitch, you are only bitching because you suck and think that all your "false" talk time is going to make you money. Wake up you fucking morons and do your goddamn job. If I had it my way, at least half of you fuckheads would be gone tomorrow. Be thankful that Firoz has supported your lame lazy idiotic asses for this long. The only mistake I believe Firoz made was to start hiring people at a higher base pay. The intent was good (retention), but it backfired because all the people hired at 40k or greater are the worst performing and most unmotivated assholes to grace the doors as Zones and should be walked out immediately if they can't pay for themselves. Good luck finding a job in this economy jackasses. Business models change in downed economies, jobs are cut and that is inevitable, but Jesus Christ people, pull your weight and do your best to help the company suceed and be thankful you have a job tomorrow. Quit worrying about what other people say or post and do your job. No one can predict the future, but for now it is what it is! do you job or leave. There are plenty of people out there to take your place. Oh yeah, and all you disgruntled MF's, go get another job and then maybe you can get your life back so you can quit wasting your time here trying to make Zones look bad, you are all truly assholes that need another way to vent.

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So far, still in support... — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:42:00 -0000

It's kinda sad (sorry Jen) that you can tell who's who of those that are of some importance to say anything on here, and still disregard the fact that so many people are, frankly - PISSED.
I am in a support/merch role, and the loss of Jeremy is frightening. I'm continually thinking of Al's offer, and seriouly considering ditching what i once thought would be my CAREER.
Zones used to be a great place to work, and I think it has a chance of getting back there. But not much. I used to love my boss, love that i could move anywhere in the company, and everyday was different. Now it's just holding on to my seat as tight as i can because i have a family to feed.
Nobody should fool themselves by drinking the corporate water, and thinking that life at Zones is that fantastic. ITS A JOB. Everyone hates some aspect of thier job. But this is ALOT of people and ALOT of hate. Is it all Firoz's fault? No, just that he's the only one that could have sincerely stopped the downward spiral - by putting those in place who make/keep an impact on the sales floor.
But it's nerve wracking when i see the term notices, and people IM'ing me of who has left - and those are jobs that can't just be filled with 5 members of the india team. (India, you do great at following instruction - it'd be great if you learned to troubleshoot too.)
We're all freaked from the chain of events. Whether we come out of it as "We are still Zones" or if we come out of it all on the bread lines talking about our experiences together, things WILL change. It's ignorance to think that things won't.
I've made some great friends at Zones over the years, and will treasure those people and my experiences. This is not how i wanted to end this career.
I was fought fcr on the sales floor, and now praised in my merch role. I am a proud Zoner. But this makes me shudder. Upper management - please put your latte's down a second and help what used to be a great place to go in the morning.

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Post 66 reply — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:16:00 -0000

I'LL SAVE YOU THE TOUBLE OF GOING TO BACK TO LOOK AT POST 66. HERE IT IS

Sales: You will never get there. Look at SeaTab and do the math. You can see it. You know it’s never going to happen for you. Quit ignoring the fact that you can see plain as day in SeaTab. It’s only going to get worse. You can see it already. Your support staff continues to head on a downward spiral to India. ZAC is a joke. It’s the Winchester house at this point, one ad on after another, doors to nowhere.
If you get word that the big boys in the Sales game are pulling out---go with them. There is a plan in place I assure you. Look at the top 5 Reps in ZCS ---watch what they do---they have a plan for when this thing comes crashing down. GO---The customers will follow you.

WELL THE FIRST PART IS COMING TRUE. THE TOP ZONES REP HAS LEFT, BUT I DON'T THINK OTHERS WILL FOLLOW.

THE 2ND PART OF POST 66 IS AS FOLLOWS

Portland Office is doomed. Thanks for the hard work down there but your accounts are coming to Auburn, that’s what happens when you start new reps a 45k base—and blow all your capital on a Sexual Harassment Settlement. The Portland experiment was a disaster. Didn’t Portland have a support and training staff once? Look around at that place it’s a ghost town now. Firoz has threatened to shut Portland down countless times…it’s only a matter of time. Ask yourself? Why does that call center exist? It was to get new blood on the phones. See a lot of new blood coming in there now? Don’t lie to yourself!

THIS IS GETTING UGLY. BUT I THINK PORTLAND WILL BE OK

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Post 66 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:06:00 -0000

PLEASE SEE POST #66!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

POST 66

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Nimish — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:15:00 -0000

Pleeeeeze... I grow weary of playing with myself.
Hell-OHHHHHHHhhhh.
Is anyone there?
I can't wait for days for your reply.
My unemployment might expire and I need to find a new job... not this same hand one.
Hell-OHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh.

Re: The top 10 best (and worst) CEOs and companies in Seattle

Nimish — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:54:00 -0000

If I told you my name was not Nimish and that English is my native language, would you play with myself then?
Please, my arm is sore with waiting for your replies.

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Nimish — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:46:00 -0000

PLEASE, someone come play with me.
I am bored of playing with myself.
Someone come play with me, please?

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Nimish — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:26:00 -0000

It was Hobday who compared CDW's geographic realignment to Zones putting AJ in charge of Sales, because that misstep in strategy was the brainchild of CDW's CIO. Hey you are totally right about Firoz' penchant for the ridiculous. Firoz is the only reason Jacola is jumping ship this Friday. That was a terrific conversation when Firoz told Jacola he was going to WAC him. Jacola just said OK and walked off. It's written in Jacola's contract that Firoz can't WAC him. "Tough times," Firoz. Take a lesson from my buddy Al Dunlap.
Hobday might be real as you would say, but wouldn't you say he'll only be half real after Jacola's departure on Friday? And take it easy on the camel jockeys s'il vous plait.

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Whatever. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:38:00 -0000

#136 Post

Ha Ha Ha, AJ filling the void? Might you think to put Linda Marbena in that mix? Do you not know of the “Procurement Nazi”? Firoz has given so much trust in her that it’s ridiculous. Stop with the Sean Hobday crap, he is real and Chicago isn’t. Someone should ask the forbidden “nepotism” question to understand the force of powers that should not BE. Can someone look and where her SON is in the company and how he got there???? And, quit the camel bull its lame.

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Nimish — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:31:00 -0000

You camel haters over there in the US remind me of when CDW "realigned" their SMB group geographically. Remember how many nice accounts we won back then? Well these days, CDW must be winning them back from us. Perhaps it is time to complete the Hobday transition by filling the void with AJ.

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Al Dunlap — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:48:00 -0000

The spif situation definitely sounds bad over there. I think they only used to take 20% out of the spifs on your spif manager list. We share the same reps for most vendors and when I ask them about your spifs getting taken, they seem don't always seem aware that's going on. Obviously they don't want to spend spif money if it's not going to incent the reps to recommend their brand. The vendors just suggest you report the sales to them manually.
Usually guys on my row would just manually report large dollar spifs because the 20% would justify using the manual process. It can be time consuming plus it's a pain when they 1099 ya at the end of the year. Either give your vendor rep the sale details or claim the spif on the vendor's website. You know the drill, for instance, hp junk go to hp portal, click on promo's, pick the part numbers you sold fill in the details and submit. Just make sure you claim them frequently because whoever reports the sale first gets the spif. EDI stuff gets reported every couple days, Chicago stuff is easier because they take forever to report. A few of us trained our girlfriends to claim our spifs manually. We gave them our sale details and they'd do the rest. Anyway, there's just a couple of suggestions so that you can keep your spifs. No reason to give up your raise ya know, especially since everybody is saying that things are not that great there now. Also FYI keep an eye on your software renewals and stay ahead of them. Some of the SW publishers are actually telling us who to call about Zones renewals now because they think Zones isn't pushing their brand anymore.

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Now Who's the Liar? — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:29:00 -0000

HR has never condoned the sale of sexual favors anywhere on the company property during business hours. And just like any other policy this DOES include the parking lot and designated smoking areas so quit asking. Plus furthermore any sex at offsite partner events is also considered company property and should be reported the next business day. Sex is part of your initial training so don't blame HR.

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Al Dunlap — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:29:00 -0000

Very light response to my offer, as in a total of 3 messages. I called the one guy who sounded like he had enough production to possibly justify pursuing, but it turned out he had "inflated" his portable revenue numbers pretty substantially when he left his message. In fact, when I returned his call he sounded like he'd just gotten back from a 2 Live Crew concert.
Anyway, we don't have a support people location local to the Seattle area. They're not in Kathmandu or Mexico or anything, but they're not here in Seattle. To my knowledge they're not getting fired full tilt but they're constantly making titular changes and rearranging them. Actually, I think one group did get the ax about a year ago. They were sort of like the bid/mod group. Yeah, go figure.
So is Zones still taking your spifs? That's just wrong man. When sales has pockets full of those starbucks giftcards and junk to give support folks for doing a good job, you don't have to worry about receptionists trying to sell sexual favors on company property or whatever your HR people were writing about. It's called the "trickle down theory."

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few ex employees??? — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:08:00 -0000

I can tell you that Zones has serious issues...80-90% of the people currently employed are very upset with the direction the company is going. In Chicago, the only people happy with this are the ones related in some way or another to the CEO's pick (famiy and friends plans have a new meaning). There's no time to do your work when you have to cover up your son's mistakes...Why Isn't the inside sales manager doing anything about it???

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Liar — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:05:00 -0000

HR has the biggest mouths in the company. The answer given above was classic Zones Rhetoric. The perfect answer. But HR employees abuse their power at Zones everyday. Nothing that happens in HR is private.

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Not Accurate — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:50:00 -0000

#126 HR has not and won't divulge any of those things that get reported. When people are involved though it is sometimes required to notify them. We are not allowed to just divulge that around at all. And then other things like the "Healthy Roads" issues we don't even have anyway to look at them.

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Jen GM — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:32:00 -0000

Are you all really this cowardly and mentally challenged that you actually believe the crap you're writing? I never did anything wrong, I never received any personal favors from ANYONE, (I don't even have a clue about this whole car pool thing...fill me in, I'd like to know what I did please, it sounds like it must be a good fictional story...) and I won't even respond to the ridiculous comment made by #122 & #124, accept to say that my friendships were NEVER with "benefits" (not that it would be any of your beeswax anyway...talk about gossips....I would really appreciate if you would grow some "kiwis" and "man up" to sign your name. What are you guys 13??? It sure seems like it, its amazing that you all have the money to put makeup on both of your faces (just to clarify for those who are mentally challenged, this means you are 2-faced.)

How did this go from being about the Worst CEO's to me? I only said "You may not like what is happening at Zones, but you do have a choice (because we do live in America)- You can leave your job at Zones and look for another fit somewhere else."

Anyone out there got the "kiwis" to respond with your real name...can't wait to see!!!

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feeling uncomfortable — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:20:00 -0000

#124, I didn't realize that HR tells people what you report. I only reported Jen GM's carpool vouchers in exchange for personal favors program because I assumed there would be no reprisal. Did HR tell her I reported her? Half of my row reported a support lady who kept touching us, and she changed her name the very next week. Is that because HR told her that we reported her? We can tell it's the same person anyway, just a different name now. Back when Leianna pressured us for personal favors in exchange for transitioned accounts, did you tell her we reported her too? If somebody takes my time clock or whatever, I don't really care, but I don't feel comfortable now approaching HR with my concerns anymore if HR is just going to break my confidentiality.