Comments on: workmetro lays off 50%, readies for acquisition

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:13:43 +0000

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! It’s been awhile since I’ve been there. I have to say, there IS a lot of truth in what everyone has said. That place was the most unhealthy work environment I’ve ever been a part of. Hang in there all and I hope you all are moving on to bigger and better things! (and let’s face it… it’s ALL better after workmetro)

By: former outside

former outside — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:30:08 +0000

What the hell on earth did jobbing pay for WorkMetro????????
Also, who cashed in from the original crew of Mark Babbitt, Cindy, Karen, Gabrielle, Jorge, etc- did anyone get paid- I hope so!!!

By: ummmm yeah

ummmm yeah — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:42:34 +0000

Let it go? This must be HR. Hater!

By: former emplyee

former emplyee — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:45:15 +0000

sheesh… for those that are commenting… LET IT GO. The company ran its course… for those leaving bitter and “gossip-ridden” comments about any of the former employees… LET IT GO. Apparently, leaving Workmetro has sadly traumatized some people… I’m sure anyone that has worked there has moved onto an new job in a new company with just as much gossip going on. But anyways… LET IT GO.

By: Former Outside Sales

Former Outside Sales — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:37:32 +0000

The product had evolved tremendously in the last 3 months—too bad they waited too long to hire a real CEO. Once he was on board, everything began to improve. But he just started in the summer of 07, so we never had a chance. We were too far in th hole by then, apparently. Or was Dave Lambert just ready to sell? Who cares.
The founders were not leaders, and is more eloquently put in the previous entries! The only reason I stayed as long as I did were the relationships with great customers in my area and the product was working well for them. And my boss was good.

Other things they did wrong also included implementing policies and pay plans every other week based on whims and coin-flipping. There was never a marketing plan, either. And what the marketing director said she was going to do never ever happened.

There were some good outsides that I’m sure have moved on to better things (there was no other way to go but up in this case).

By: sales voice

sales voice — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:44:08 +0000

what about when the VP of sales would come out of his office and hav white stuff around his nose? that was hilarious.

By: sales voice

sales voice — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:10:28 +0000

to anonymous who posted on Jan 26th at 2:29 pm you are right on the money. The original director of sales was the heart and soul of the company but the lazy, coke snorting VP of sales piled far too many things on his plate for him to succeed while he(the VP of sales) was off at Tahoe or with his friend in different markets wasting the investors money on booze, coke and girls. When things went sideways he blamed the old director of sales and let him go. As far as telesales went anyone defending them is a total moron. Let me say that again….anyone defending telesales, the telesales manager or the leads they produced is a moron. The telesales department was in large like a drunken group of highschoolers with their manager as their ringleader. I overheard this manager on several occasions saying they did not care if telesales passed decent leads to inside sales. Oh by the way, there WAS an analysis done of numbers and the final word was that 4% of the leads passed from telesales to inside sales ever became real business. Only an idiot would make the argument that it was the fault of inside sales for not closing more deals. As if anyone in inside sales was not going to close anything and everything they could because that was how they got paid. Where did the leads come from to begin with? It was the job of telesales to provide them and they provided a high quantity of garbage leads. You have to understand telesales were paid on each and every lead passed and they were not compensated one iota on whether or not that lead became a sale. The telesales manager knew this and would become very nasty and confrontational when anyone made a suggestion to do anything that would improve the quality of the leads but decrease the volume of them. So when the old sales director is filed they promoted the telesales manager to inside sales manager. This person was a great example of someone who had zero leadership ability but was a “boss”. If you did not do what this person said or said what they wanted to hear you were on their bad side and they were out to get you no matter how much you sold.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:29:38 +0000

Mainly mid-level managers, hr, and employees did speak up. Rumor is they even did an intervention over a year ago to make the company better and were ignored. A new Ceo was brought in July, too late. The old Ceo and his cronie execs had already ruined the company. Plus, there was a manager in Atlanta that got all the attention from the VP of Sales even though he couldn’t manage, couldn’t make quota and couldn’t hire or retain any body that could sell. We wasted millions of dollars on just him and that office.

Same story over and over. Terrible upper management with huge egos that knew nothnig about our industry, never once met with a customer and wouldn’t listen to employees that did know, who hired best friends and college buddies, and who lied to the employees about how good the company was doing. Some of us and especially one Sales Director who worked his ass off knew how to run this company. Maybe he was too outspoken. Any one who pointed out what was wrong with the company was let go or left on their own. We even had 6 marketing directors in less than a year.

By: Mr. Sales Manager

Mr. Sales Manager — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:02:59 +0000

You are sorry! And your name is? What have you done in the past? I am sure you were a great leader and a huge sucesss at WorkMetro, Tell me what your name is and then we can HEAR what others say about your sales! My guess is you hid in your Cubical! Great W2 you had! HAHAHAH. Again let us know who your are so we can see how big of a sales pro you are?

By: Mr. Sales Manager.....

Mr. Sales Manager..... — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:32:53 +0000

Mr. Sales Manager….at your next position, don’t be on so many vacations to where you don’t know what’s going on. Also, why don’t you ask how YOUR company is doing. Not one of the executives knew anything about the recruiting industry. the least you could have done is stick around and learn the inustry. Don’t hire puppets to do all the work for you.clown.