[V-eHGsd_]

from the video, I got the impression that cloudflare has a pretty standard 3 month ramp up period which, for her, ended right about thanksgiving. so it's not 5 months with no sales, it's a little over a month. and that month has two (three) major holidays that knock out ~2 weeks. so 5 months is suddenly more like ~3 weeks.

and, if every 1:1 with a manager has been glowing and then you get fired 'for performance', there's been a massive failure somewhere.

[klipklop]

Agreed. Nobody is closing deals near the end of the year. Also it takes time as a sales person to worm your way into a company to sell them on a product. This takes good leads to follow up on. No idea if the sales agent even had that. Were there even any so close to the holidays?

Sales can be hard because you have to build relationships with companies/people. If you compare a green sales agent against an entrenched veteran they will always look bad. The veteran sales person has contacts, revolving sales from existing companies and people they can hit up to drive new sales. The newb has none of that. The amount of time she was employed was not enough to determine that.

[diggan]

Not to mention that the last few weeks of any year is famously slow when it comes to most things, including sales and purchasing decisions.

[John23832]

Nobody is even around in Nov/Dec to approve any sales. Sales don't pick up until mid Jan.

[itake]

I'm curious why she knew to record this video if she thought she was performing well.

[V-eHGsd_]

the first 30 seconds of the video says

> my coworkers have been getting random 15-min cal invites all day

> my work bff got a meeting 30 mins before I did and she got laid off