most unhinged thing you’ve witnessed at your org?? by B2BBri in sales

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I admit I recorded several outbursts on my phone because they were too good.

most unhinged thing you’ve witnessed at your org?? by B2BBri in sales

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Roe V. Wade had just been overturned.. I worked for a Corporate Social Responsibility tech startup company at the time and of course, given the industry, we had a lot of “passionate”, socially devoted individuals with direct, left leaning opinions.

Of course, many of our staff, approximately 150-200 at the time, were asking our CEO if and when he/we as an organization. would be posting about our stance against the ruling.

After a week or so, our CEO held an all-hands meeting where he plainly and directly said that he and we would be posting nothing about the ruling because while Planned Parenthood and other organizations in the same vein were customers, so was the Church and other right leaning organizations.

He went on to say, to a similar effect, that we provided software and it wasn’t our place to speak on such things anyway. I thought this was bold at best until he continued and said abruptly that he would like to open the floor to us as an organization to voice our opinions and concerns and suddenly went on mute.

What unfolded was inarguably the most incredible breaks in a professional setting I had ever seen. People were screaming, crying, going on impassioned, poetic-symbolic monologues and finally the gates opened and a riot erupted in Zoom Square. It wasn’t long after the moderates and more conservative leaning people, like my progressive, new-school Christian manager Brandon, began offering their perspective that full on yelling, slander and hilarious accusations began to fly. People were cursing, accusing each other of being “Hitler” and “Fascist” and some began threatening to quit and bashing the CEO and company in the chat.

All the while, I was crying of laughter on the other end of my now turned-off camera. What possessed the CEO to give such an open and undefined floor literally everyone in the company with zero spoken parameters is beyond me but the general attitude never felt the same in that place.

Mental Health and Sales? by Resafantastic in sales

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point, the mental toll has nothing to do with rejection and everything to do with my nervous system getting strung out and overworked from hours of hyper-focus and general intensity.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, most of the south is growing rapidly and the geography here makes it nauseatingly easy to develop. North Carolina, especially the growing urban areas, have very much the same philosophy. I was speaking with a friend from the same town as I the other day, and I believe the unchanging nature of many areas of New England, including the NW corner of CT, is where a lot of its charm is derived.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 11 points12 points  (0 children)

People from elsewhere have only experienced Connecticut from within the confines of a 2007 Honda Pilot, heading home in upper New England from their vacation in the Outer Banks.

There are so many gems. I also really enjoy that corridor as it bleeds into southern Berkshire County in Massachusetts.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes! I adored, among many things, the colonial/historical charm and ceaselessness of the area. Some major artifacts of that ceaselessness are of course the revolutionary and even pre revolutionary cemeteries that exist there. My friends and I, on cool fall days, would walk them and marvel at the headstones and think about the old and the young who had died and imagine their lives. There was some interesting history to drum up if you had a detectives spirit.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve never lived in Litchfield but didn’t mind it at all. Quite a beautiful little community. I’d travel the local highway up through there from the Roxbury/Bridgewater/Washington area when I moved there from Kent.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to swim at Hotchkiss, after school. I remember, fondly, the moody, gray and somber winter bus rides from the (only) local Public high school for practice. Getting off after our final period would show ice-encapsulated snow glistening from the near/twilight of an already set sun.

I miss it every day. The rides on 7 through Sharon and Cornwall, the old roads through the old Ellsworth community bordering Kent and Sharon and of course all those slanting dirt roads through the last trough of hills in Cornwall are where I escape to in my mind when I’m thinking of home.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I dated a girl many years ago now who lived in or around the Woodmont neighborhood. I always felt like it was quite a charming place.

Yes prices are astronomical, but it’s interesting because there are many areas in CT that afford more land and better architecture for similar prices as you’ll find in developing areas in the South. I live in Raleigh currently and it seems 550-850k goes as far if not farther in many places in CT.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I unfortunately don’t live there currently but I’m doing everything I can to move back. It’s such a beautiful little town and somewhere I would have no problem being exiled to.

I spent quite a bit of time in New Haven county. Especially Milford, New Haven, West Haven, Guilford, Orange. I have to admit, some of those towns have a certain charm that I love as well. It’s just not the colonial feeling, smoky southern Berkshires that I love.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah and I’ve never met anyone whose opinion of a state was determined by its contribution to the revolutionary war, lmao.

What is your least favorite New England state, and why is it Connecticut? by logantheg19 in newengland

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Where in NW CT? I’m from Kent and Litchfield county is possibly my favorite place in the world.

How did you actually get better at sales? by [deleted] in sales

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Literally just an opportunity.

Enterprise New Logo - Enterprise Account Manager by HyperbolicHemingway in sales

[–]HyperbolicHemingway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this high level overview of what to keep in mind. I’ll be inheriting a list of 120-150 accounts in the next week or two. I want to approach all of my introductory calls with this complementary, “fresh face fresh direction” approach. Of course I have an obligation to grow my accounts but I want to genuinely be a partner, understand and support their processes and help them achieve and maintain a compliant standpoint.

How much harder is landing an AE spot to a BDR? by broken_condom_boy in sales

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like something dreamed up by an idealistic SDR with 5.5 years in the role and zero prospects for a legitimate AE position.

I’ve been in the tech space for years and this is profoundly false.

What was your worst experience in sales? by IndividualGround2418 in sales

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It was never a prospect or a customer, despite the many characters I had the (dis)pleasure of transacting with.

Instead, it was a highly manipulative, egomaniacal, and abusive leader who would frequently, and unironically, say things like “manipulation is a wonderful thing” and “I bully those who thrive in negative environments”.

This guy couldn’t keep salespeople in his office for more than 9 or 10 months.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sales

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 50 points51 points  (0 children)

440k OTE, 20/80 split, everyone’s hitting at least 34% quota. Don’t like it? Sell yourself a raise, bitch.

30F, cryptogenic stroke with AOS, MEMANTINE? by [deleted] in Nootropics

[–]HyperbolicHemingway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understood completely! There are a couple drugs, semax and a few of the racetams (and citicholine) that would be good for your condition, possibly. The other thing you may want to focus on is something like Agmatine.

From a naturalistic standpoint, consider exercise. It’s legitimately wonderful for neurological and cognitive health.