I took a job with a friend of my parents. My job was basically to cold call (both over the phone and in person) companies to sell them on our product. I was pretty good at it too. The owner (the friend of the parents) was never there, he was always on the road selling. Basically two people had my job, me and the husband of the office manager), I was much better and was blowing this dude out of the water in results. But the office manager was always complaining to the owner about me, saying I was late every day, saying I was stealing her husbands leads, pretty much anything she could think of. So one day I asked for a vacation day and she granted it. Then told the owner that I just no called no showed. I pleaded my case but he told me that she'd been with him for 20 years and it'd be easier for me (who had only been there a few months) to move on.
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I took a job with a friend of my parents. My job was basically to cold call (both over the phone and in person) companies to sell them on our product. I was pretty good at it too. The owner (the friend of the parents) was never there, he was always on the road selling. Basically two people had my job, me and the husband of the office manager), I was much better and was blowing this dude out of the water in results. But the office manager was always complaining to the owner about me, saying I was late every day, saying I was stealing her husbands leads, pretty much anything she could think of. So one day I asked for a vacation day and she granted it. Then told the owner that I just no called no showed. I pleaded my case but he told me that she'd been with him for 20 years and it'd be easier for me (who had only been there a few months) to move on.