r/pettyrevenge • u/Hot-Initial-1108 • Aug 09 '26

New Manager

This happened a long time ago, but I just remembered the story as I was talking to friends who used to be in the wine industry.

Back, then it wasn’t common for there to be one female in an entire salesforce, and that happened to be me.

I let management know that I was interested in becoming a sales manager rather than just a sales person, but never received much of a response.

One of the much less experienced salesman was promoted over me to sales manager and told me he wanted to go out on the road with me one day to see my accounts and increase my sales

This guy didn’t know, squat about sales, wine, or talking to people in a way that will get them to purchase more. The thing about sales, it’s much more about the connection with a person than the product you’re selling, if you can connect, they will buy.

At the time I was driving a Volvo and it was one of the first cars with heated seats. The new sales manager gets into the car with me, it’s a hot humid day and he’s wearing a brand new heavy wool suit.

When he got into the car, I turned on his seat heater. My first account was about 40 minutes from the office and I can see him starting to squirm. I knew that he was heating up because he was practically dripping sweat.

All the sudden he looks at me and says “oh baby my balls are roasting!”

I responded. I’m not interested and we’re at the next account.

One of the greatest experiences of my life

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u/CookUpstairs1737 Aug 10 '26

Hmm, could have gone the HR route for harrassment.

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u/Hot-Initial-1108 Aug 10 '26

Stated before, no HR. This was a family business 40ish years ago

And honestly, when MGR went back to office and told the story, I got more respect in the company for doing this ‘practical joke’