Today:
Had the female I mentioned in the last post keep passing by my desk repeatedly to try and play around in a cute sort of way today, she also kept trying to convince me to move closer to where she sits on the sales floor but I kept playing around acting like I was blind lol. When she did come by my desk I was on a call every time. She even walked all the way to the row I was sitting at just to say goodnight when she left although the exit was the opposite way.
I can tell because of my numbers that they keep ramping up the volume of calls I’m getting daily, and I have managers literally calling my extension when calls are slow to throw me deals and try to close customers, literally reserving calls for me to take.
Today I felt like doing nothing but working and ended up coming in 2 hours early. About 3 hours into my shift i got a strange message from a QA analyst to have a call of mine reviewed. Thought I was in trouble. Made my way over to her desk and she said we had a meeting scheduled for the VIP’s for our company, and a couple of our partner companies.
I’m thinking to myself, what the hell did I do to catch the attention of VIP’s? Right before we went into the meeting, the QA analyst turned towards me and said that she chose me to come because out of the hundreds of calls she reviewed over a week, apparently mine was the best. She said I sounded so great on the phone that she didn’t even believe that I’ve been with the company less than 3 months.
At this point I’m in slight disbelief that I was chosen for this, even above veteran sales agents who’ve been with this company for over 10 years. We go into the meeting and Everyone has a chill and happy vibe. I won’t lie though, it was the most uncomfortable I’d felt in a social situation in years. That shocked me because I’m used to dealing with higher-ups a lot from past experiences, no matter what job I held.
My call was played in front of everyone and the QA analyst kept turning towards me and smiling like she found “the one, the Golden child”. Every time she looked at me she had a big smile on her face and even a certain glow. After the call ended, the Executives kept raving about how they loved the way I handled the sale. I got some feedback on potential areas of improvement but they said that even those were very minor. Basically stating how just doing a couple extra things could’ve made an excellent sale just a bit better but overall they were amazed. Especially because I sold a new product that many agents have been struggling to close on across the country.
The highest ranking executive actually told me it’s one of the top three calls he’s heard in his career and told the QA analyst to flag that specific call to be used, to help with a future marketing campaign, in order to help secure new clients we could sell for in the future, or even get even more business from our existing clients.
I kept getting praise for like 30 minutes straight after that, and then after the meeting, the analyst spent even more time congratulating me and giving me small pointers on how to improve and said she’d be looking to use more of my calls in the future, one of the veteran sales agents then introduced himself and joined the conversation. They started tag teaming and giving me tip after tip on how to improve my sales process for 45 minutes straight. People walking by were looking at me like like crazy and it seems they were curious as to who I was.
The analyst then told me I’m now being watched much closer for future call reviews and also that she’s now putting me as a top contender for a sales contest coming up, with a cash reward, and also broke down how to win. The veteran agent then told me he won that contest 3 times in the past and stated that with all the tips I was given, that he’s now stepping down as “king” and passing me the crown to be noticed as the top agent.
That whole 90 minute ordeal was like a damn lucid dream and caught me way off guard. So much that I was kinda off my game sales wise for about an hour after I returned to take calls. It was so much to process at once, especially because before that, I was in a meeting about how to pitch another new product and the sales lead from another department kept locking eyes with me like he was trying to see what my soul looked like lol.
It’s like he wanted to make sure I understood everything he was saying and he looked at no one else in the meeting that way. I held a relaxed gaze when we locked eyes (all 1 thousand times lol), but it was borderline creepy. I only see him around now and again so I’m unsure as to why he seemed so drawn to me during that whole meeting. It was like he was counting on me more than anyone else to sell the new product with the way he kept looking into my eyes and emphasizing his talking points. He glanced at everyone else but stared deeply into my eyes…An effect from CHOSEN maybe?
I’m now feeling an immense amount of pressure because I know I’m being monitored way more closely and having people from managers, supervisors and now even several corporate executives holding extremely high expectations for my future with the company. Well, so much for staying low key. It’s like in some way, mogul, rich, emperor, Stark and chosen are all hitting at once. Maybe that’s what led up to the events from today. Still feels like I was in the twilight zone. I’m off tomorrow so I’ll take time to finish processing it all mentally.
