I Hate Men! Well, Just One

Tomorrow is the big game. Well, I guess one of the big games. Auburn vs. Alabama The game starts at an odd time. 3:34PM. OSU vs. Michigan St. starts at 3:30PM. Ummm... did they feel the need to start first since they're #1 & #2? I mean come on, it's just tacky. :-)

Today work was just miserable. I was put in a rather unpleasant perdicament today. I don't like having to deal with one boss and then the stinkin' marketer who now wants to be the boss. It's not fun being stuck in the middle. Apparently my marketer was told he's not getting paid for these 9 mega deals I brought in. I can totally understand that in a way because he did not go out and get them and won't be able to cultivate a local relationship with anyone and bring in more business from it and besides the contact is a friend of mine. Yesterday morning he confronts me in my office and asks me how my bonuses (well, when I was paid them) are calculated and told me he's not going to compete against me. I was caught off guard. I don't have anything to do with marketing and my bonuses were not based on what deals I brought in but based on what I closed. I explained that to him. He has a beef with my boss, the guy who hired him, because he wants to be paid on everything that closes. He started to have an attitude with me. I guess he didn't get paid his bonus for last month with yesterdays paycheck. I have nothing to do with it at all. I don't handle payroll but he kept hounding me about it. I told him to call his boss. What makes it even worse is I get a call today from a good friend of mine and a loan officer at Countrywide. You see my marketer did a breakfast meeting with them yesterday. For one he was late. He was suppose to be there at 8 and we got a call at 8:15 saying he was late. He rushed and left the office. The branch manager called shortly after and told him not to come. I had to call him on his cell. He told me to act like I had not gotten a hold of him. So the man goes anyway. She only let him speak for 5 minutes but apparently he pissed everyone off. My friend told him that everyone kept comment on how pushy he was and how he reapeatedly told them he use to own his own mortgage company and he was cocky and arrogant sounding. I totally understand where she is coming from. He doesn't take no for an answer. I think part of his problem is he hasn't been in the title business before and maybe doesn't know the best approach. All he can see is the approach he took with the mortgage compay and just substituting the title information. I've got a huge problem though when the loan officers are saying that they won't send us any business because they could not stand him and his demeanor to them. Essentially it hurts me. And the marketer doesn't have to have this job and I do. I have to contribute to the household and cannot afford for this to fail. I can't exactly talk to him about what was said and my concerns b/c he's going to know who exactly said it to me. She asked me to keep it in confidence and I don't want to break her trust. On the other hand if I go to my boss to talk to him about it I don't want my marketer to think I'm going above him. I asked Bonnie for advice and she wasn't sure what to do. In the end I decided to call my boss and talk to him. He just told me to call my marketer and totally ignored the fact that I know he'll go straight to the source and then she'll know I said something. You see he'll go to her to explain why he's right, blah blah blah. He's driving me nuts. I cannot stand being in the office with him. He does not make things easy. I hate to say it but some of his ideas are flat out stupid and are not going to work. He wasted over a month marketing budget on these stupid DVD's for a "library" in our office for realtors to check out. Come on. Not one has been checked out and they aren't going to do that. He may be a great motivational speaker but he's not out there to motivate the realtors and loan officers. He's not suppose to be so pushy and irritating that they just refuse to work with me. The thing that he's told me is that he's consistantly heard from everyone he's meet nothing but good things about me and that I have a great reputation. I don't want him trying to kill it and turn people off like Crazy Clay our last marketer. I give up. I'm stuck in the middle. I don't like it. If I could afford to I'd quit tomorrow. I don't like going to work now and it's a shame. I'm sick of pulling off MLS info and sending out 100's of letters that are stupid. No one wants the free stupid kit. Let's be real there isn't really anything in it. And for the people to get it that I'm sending the letters out to they have to request it from their realtor and then their realtor has to request it from us. If you only read the letter. The first one, it was well, just awful. I gently asked him if he wanted to keep wording about the fees, etc. and he said yes. It made no sense whatsoever. Bonnie even agreed with me. He doesn't understand anything about the business we're in and can't see that what he wrote sounds ignorant and is just wrong and any educated realtor will know that. Okay, enough about my vent. I'm just frustrated. I want to quit and stay at home and watch Oprah and Dr. Phil all day long.