#worklearnings

My old company may have had a case then…my Commissions Agreement likely said that I only received payment when the company received payment from clients. Sounds like the courts would have likely signed with the company (even if it isn’t fair)

I think I’ve learned a big lesson here. I feel like I became entitled at PV after I was a top performer for years. I went above-and-beyond in many ways: from product ideas, submitting bugs, handling a lot of CS work, creating a retailer partnership, creating 100 case studies, and more. I felt like the least PV could do was pay our sales team correctly when our base salary was lower and we got paid commissions 30+ days after the company was paid. I do think I waited for 2.5 years before escalating billing issues but I still mishandled how I raised it. If I wasn’t getting Adam’s support, I should’ve dropped it or left the company. If you stick around somewhere where you disagree with how the company is doing something, you’ll become a toxic employee (the retention bonuses did create golden handcuffs).

I felt disrespected by PV in multiple ways (through Mindy, Andrew, Adam putting me on a worse team, putting me at the rejects table at GroceryShop, and more). They probably felt disrespected by me too. Maybe it wasn’t a good fit…but it must be me if this has happened to me at multiple companies. Maybe PV was a great place to work and I didn’t realize it at the time.

Me, Luke, and sales teammates were satisfied by what I got done in a work week, but Adam B. must not have felt the same way. We didn’t have a personal relationship and he saw me as a cog in a machine. I would feel exhausted each morning at the thought of another day of work but I’d get up anyways and push through. I have been sleeping a lot later now without work and feel a sense of relief. It feels great not having to receive negative feedback or lack of responses from others at work, and instead only experience positive interactions through interview calls.