Horrendous Weekend Ever

I know work is never smooth sailing but what had happened over the last wkend was certainly a challenge, at least for me.

First it was some screwed up shipment of demo units for the Indo event. The ASEAN sales manager called me up 5mins before the firework burst out to the sky last Fri at Marina Bay. He literally raised his voice at me over the phone and spurred sarcastic sentences juz becos one demo unit was out of stock in the office and my executive and his manager were not aware of the urgency and did not surface to either bosses. They did not know that according to this ASEAN sales manager, without this bloody demo unit at the event, it is deemed as a FLOP?! I'll say that is ridiculous, does he meant that without promoting this product at the exhibition, he will not be able to hit his monthly sales target? I guess that shows how well his sales strategy is. A good sales person is one who can sell his product without even having to demo the live product. Tell me about it..

Well, I guess I have done all I could to explore the options of alternatives. Even if he wanna jump at me or my boss on Thurday, I'm all ears to it. *fret*

And to think this is isn't enough, another issue has to crop up. This time, from the India region.

It all started with this bugger who mistook my good intentions as irritations. To set the record straight, I'm not obligated to book hotel rooms for the ah nehs for our event. If they require, they have to request. I'm not so free to always call them up like their PA and check if they need this or that. All are stated in the email. if they need, they have to let me know in advance, else they have to bear the consequences., simple as that. So after 2 rounds of emails, he finally told me that he wants a room in all cities, so judging from comments the Hotels told me, they are running kinda full, so I tried to propose if he can bunk with his guy if I managed only to get one room. There, he flared and started to call me irriating and bossy, said I was being disrespectful cos' afterall he is the Snr Sales Manager and all those crap, dun expect him to share room and deprive him of the priviledge of owning a single room to himself. I mean, god! I was shaking with anger when I read his complain email, cc-ed to the entire world. At that moment, I juz felt like flying over, wring his neck, give him an upper-cut and kick-arse his balls!

What wrongful accusations are that? Even if he has been squeezed up to his neck by his boss on sales target, there's no way he I should be his sandbag and an outlet to vent his freaking frustration! I have not been insulted by anyone like this, and who he thinks he is to call me names and pass judgements on me? If he at least has a brain in his arse, he shld know that his performance is rated by the response of the 3 events. He is at the loosing end, not me...so farking LOSER, get that in mind and stop shooting mindless emails like machine gun!! It only shows how immature you are and how ineffective your mgt skills are! You think you will get respect from you Indian team after this? Dream on!!

*blood still boiling*