Speakers Corner Hail to the Chief! ROGER BOX GC Contributor
Although no employer is perfect, many felt that the last edition of speakers corner was a pity party for the owner, and too much sympathy was given. Although I do believe in many circumstances a job is what you make of it, including the crappy ones, you can still be making plans in the background to improve your situation. It’s fair to say that working in FX is not the same as being a child laborer in an African lithium mine, however some CEO’s can be tremendously challenging to work for. So in the interests of bringing balance to the universe we asked for your stories, and you certainly delivered. Based on the modern day therapy of gratitude journaling and being thankful for everything, we would like to say a special thank you to our glorious leaders, may you forever enlighten us with your wonderful future vision... Dear CEO, I just wanted to say thanks for everything... Thank you for misleading me in the interview process. Sure I take some of the blame for this in swallowing your vision of a very well funded startup. I have used the line of ‘getting in on the ground floor’ a million times myself when I was sold an opportunity. Kind of ironic that I fell for it also.
You were probably misled like me with dreams of becoming the next Goldman Sachs, but you are the leader nonetheless...step up or step off.
Thank you for letting me know personally that I would have a marketing budget once I ‘proved myself’. I have more experience in this industry than you have, and have not been placed in my position by merit of knowing the owner. If you were just straight with me from the outset, then that’s cool. I wouldn’t have taken the project on.
Thank you for having little or no regard for legal procedure which I suspect is a bit of a weird concept to you, and your various offices in random Eastern European countries. Working legally is different to just stealing peoples money. Probably best you make a choice which one you would like to do.
Thank you for depending on just my network to get your brokerage off the ground. I am risking more than you with my reputation and network being potentially destroyed, along with my clients hard earned money for your bucket shop.
Thank you for the commission calculation formula that would even confuse Einstein.Lets just keep it to the simple structure we agreed on, and no need to factor in the current wind speed and deducting revenue based on the favorite national dish of Vanuatu.
Thank you for not having no balls to stand up to the owner.I understand that you have bills to pay etc. However, you are the leader and must act as such.
Thank you for claiming that our brokerage is STP. Not unless your definition means ‘Straight To Pocket’ then I think we need to talk about how it is defined.
GAME CHANGERS Issue #31
