We have a rollout of a major new product coming next week, a product I will be largely responsible for selling.
Not only do I not yet have online access to the product; I just found out that the product manager from our home office has been scheduling customer visits and demos with my sales reps directly, without telling me.
I take this as a sign of disrespect. It's not like she doesn't know this is my product; she knows it very well. Furthermore, it's in her own best interest to include me in these meetings because otherwise all the sales reps in the country will just go to her with all their questions and requests for customer appointments.
I'm having several conversations about this in my head even as I type:
1. My sour grapes are telling me to say "fine, let her do all the selling if that's what she wants."
2. My inner paranoid-schizophrenic is telling me she's not including me because she thinks I'm annoying and a buffoon and would simply rather not deal with me.
3. My inner adult is telling me it was just an oversight and to chalk it up to a big "whatever, Mary."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going with options 1 and 2.
CP
