Managers’ Monday The agents dial the leads and opportunities to try to get sales One rep has 77 manual dials and no more Another had 47 manual dials plus 340 outbound dials Others have similar numbers none under 200 The 88 rep got beasted off his sup for laziness And was made to promise to step up and do more calls Each agent had to count then report the call numbers The TL added them to a data sheet to review And pass it to the Managers who managed all this crap Their TL had to explain the discrepancy in call numbers Each agent knew it was a futile childish process The bosses all had access to the agents’ diallers All they had to do was filter and tally the calls The agents grumbled it was a stupid pointless act Did they know the bosses were testing them? To see how they would react under pressure And having to deal with stupid pointless orders Which were all recorded real time on the system? The bosses liked games and numbers so were fine With this little exercise that highlighted one lazy rep He would be triple beasted and fired if he did it again It was Managers’ Monday and all deliberate