When Beauty Get's Ugly: "AE's"

Greetings! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! Because of my residual holiday cheer, I thought I would change up my topic today and give our bad customers a break—after all, those troublemakers need a rest, too! Besides, there was an instance this weekend with a fellow coworker that reminded me of another call out I wanted to make. That of the crazy Account Executive.

I’m lucky enough to have had a long string of great AE’s over the last few years—many of whom I still consider friends. But after fifteen years in this industry, I’ve gotten to see some real doozies on the opposite end of the spectrum. Like, for example, the one who dragged me to her house one afternoon—just so I could help her look for her Zoloft prescription. Ironically, she made me forty-five minutes late for work that day.

What’s funny is how so many of these batty executives seem to share the same traits: they’re erratic, they’re obsessive. Sometimes they hound us over and over and over again. I understand the need to manage someone, but do you really need to call two or three times every single day? Or text us on our days off about strange, irrelevant ads or postings. These are things that could absolutely wait until we return to work the next day. Right?

Hello micro-managing...it's not a pleasure to meet you.

Still, micro-managing is one thing, but add a dash of craziness? That’s another flavor altogether. Sometimes we're even afraid of having our AE speak to a client. Who knows what crazy story or weird piece of information may come popping out? Stranger yet, many of them have been around for years. There's something slightly terrifying about that...like maybe they didn't always used to be this way. Hmm. Maybe years and years of events and gifts and crazy personalities have taken their toll.

Alright, alright. Enough scary talk...

So what can we, the poor souls who work for them, do about it? Nothing really. They may be creepy, they may be kooky—but they’re still hanging on a business rung situated way over our heads. The only thing we can do is what we’ve always done: we move on to something else, or we just roll our eyes and laugh it off—all the while praying this type of crazy really isn’t in the water😉

Here’s to all the laughs we’ve had over the years!

Cheers, and happy shopping!

 

PS--If you have any stories out there that are too funny not to share, let me know in the comment section below! I never get tired of 'crazy'