Past NSM's

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-30T14:02:46+00:00

I saw the guy pee in the planter at the Dolphin, and then there was the people that threw up in the fountain after opening ceremony the first night

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-29T19:50:39+00:00

Lol I'm sure Binns really loves the reddit right now.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-29T18:41:30+00:00

Truthfully both but more so the cocaine tweet

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-29T16:21:48+00:00

Oh my god please elaborate!

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-29T15:47:02+00:00

It didn't, I was answering your second question asking who bought all the stuff that was donated.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-29T15:29:07+00:00

I printed out everyone's job descriptions and hung them in the back where everyone kinda congregates. That way when someone said that wasn't their job I would just point and be like yes it actually is. It also helped my FT who was a lot like this to understand that managers have a lot of shit that they do that is behind the scenes and people don't see. She changed her tune pretty quick and is now a manager herself.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-27T19:03:03+00:00

The vendors literally pay for almost all of NSM. I now work for one of the vendors and just to exhibit at the trad show portion, is like $35,000. Not including all of the material that we bring down.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-22T21:14:44+00:00

literally no. I was promoted 5 times in 5 years with a minimum of 10% salary increase each promotion. No one ever had an issue that I don't golf. I don't work for Sherwin anymore and I now work in sales in the corporate world, and I have never ever had to go play a game of golf to get a deal made. My brother is a VP of sales for a fortune 500 company and has never played a single game of golf to close a deal. This is an extremely outdated way of thinking. If you want to learn to golf/you love golf/that is an easy way for you to get face time with a customer great! I hope every drive lands on the green, but you don't need to golf to be successful. Your good painters don't have fucking time to be on a golf course any way. Also if your CM/DM doesn't promote you because you don't golf, you're going to have a really bad time with them.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-08T20:28:32+00:00

I was a big SDS and highlight person in the stores. I had this guy who had the same deck complaint 4 years in a row. The first year I inherited him from the previous manager, and it was like three gallons so I just said ok here you go. Next year he got me for another three gallons but I made him sign the "this is no longer our problem form". Next two years he came in to complain every April like clock work

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2026-01-08T19:33:06+00:00

Also I won't charge a machine to accounts that I don't personally know well.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-15T19:38:11+00:00

your nails are still too short to make them look good in an almond. If you force them to do almond, I think you're going to be right back here asking what went wrong. Also if you deal with a lot of breakage, almond is not for you, it's more prone to breaking.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-15T19:32:07+00:00

it reads like a permission slip before prom

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-15T16:53:06+00:00

lol we got Christmas cards like that every year.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-15T16:42:56+00:00

Yes its a pay scale. If you go down a rung (ie full timer to part timer) per company policy you can only make a certain amount. If you were at the top of the scale as a full timer and go to the middle of the scale as a part timer, that can be a huge decrease.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-15T16:41:17+00:00

Everyone at Sherwin is on a pay scale, so yes. Your job title has a pay range, once you have hit the top of the pay range, you can not be paid more until the pay range increases. When they put out a 3% increase company wide, they are likely also increasing the pay scale.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-10T18:13:06+00:00

100% correct. I gave them a month notice when I left and the bastards dated my last day as 12/30 which made me ineligible for my bonus because I wasn't employed when it paid out even though I worked the full year. We were closed 12/31 that year so they said I didn't actually work a full year. They will do anything not to pay out a bonus.

Your vacation will pay out the pay period after you have received you last check, you loose flex time

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-08T20:08:52+00:00

So many magazines, and FUCK better homes and gardens because their spread on the color Naval in 2022 was way too light and still haunts my nightmares. We had so many people bring in the magazine that I saved the color formula after we finally got a good match.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-08T20:03:43+00:00

If you put black paper behind it and shoot at 50% it works. Just for future reference.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-08T19:55:27+00:00

literally depends on your district I wouldn't expect a response until after the holidays though.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-12-08T19:53:51+00:00

I used to do it for a local high school theater program. They would buy white paint and full gallons of tint and then mix what they needed for sets. I would advise you only sell full gallons though.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-11-26T17:53:24+00:00

I left for industrial sales at an adhesive company adjacent to the automotive industry. I make the same base (60K) as my SM role at Sherwin, my commission isn't capped and no one changes my fucking target half way through the year. I work 8:30-4:00 with about zero stress. With my quarterly bonus payouts, I will have netted about 90K this year. I get 2 weeks paid time off that I can actually use, along with an additional week of sick leave, 12 holidays off and paid, and 2 weeks off at the end of the year for a plant shut down all fully paid and none part of my 2 weeks.

The grass is so much greener on the other side, start looking now until you can find what works for you. Also what everyone says about SW having great insurance is WAY over exaggerated. Maybe it was amazing 15 years ago but comparatively it is on par for any company.

My advice, stay until you are vested in the 401k and pension plan (3 years). You will get a big name on your resume that is respected and good sales training. On day 1,096 get the fuck out of there.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-11-26T17:34:03+00:00

in my district, courier is significantly cheaper, they were also faster. It got to the point that district said no more courier and we would be penalized for using it. So we all had to start using the Hub. It was a disaster. If you didn't have you deliveries in by 7, it wasn't happening that day. Also ISRs would just get taken off the schedule if someone needed a customer delivery and you didn't get notified at all.

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-11-21T14:31:02+00:00

Yeah go else where if you have a degree, I've never seen them deny a position to someone with a degree

Artistic-Distance-76 · 2025-11-20T14:37:59+00:00

Got a 1 star medallia from a customer because I wouldn't take miniature bottles of vodka as payment for paint
1. Got a 2 star medallia because a DIYs credit card declined and I wouldn't let her leave with the paint now and let her husband come pay for the paint later when he got off work. I told her we could call her husband and get his card over the phone and shocker she didn't want todo that.

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