Comment by tomnipotent
8 months ago
So in other words you've never worked at a large org, or been in a leadership position over hundreds of people. So rather than acknowledge that things like this can happen, you'd rather jump to the least charitable conclusion. Clearly the Slack senior leadership sat in a dark room smoking cigars while laughing evil about all the cash they were going to get raising the bills on non-profits. Got it. That explains 0 other non-profits that have had this issue and gone public.
Large organisations have less excuse, not more. I've worked across the industry, at various levels. The bigger the org, the more layers of compliance that have to be adhered to. A competent and compliant sales team would not be pulling figures at random to extort with. The sales team is normally bonus motivated, normally that type of reward system ensures they're not just chair warming.
There's no such thing as "compliant" in this context, you totally made that up which reinforces this is beyond your scope of experience. There's no covenant or other legal obligation they have to be compliant with other than internal systems and controls - you know, processes involving humans which are prone to errors.
This was a process error that you and others have decided to make into something it isn't. If it was systemic we'd be hearing about more instances, but here we are.
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> There's no such thing as "compliant" in this context, you totally made that up which reinforces this is beyond your scope of experience.
What an unnecessarily hostile take.
I see accusations and statements, not questions and discovery. Folks seem too busy grabbing their pitchfork to engage in an honest conversation on shitty enterprise sales tactics.
> There's no covenant or other legal obligation they have to be compliant with other than internal systems and controls ...
So in other words you've never worked at a large org, or been in a leadership position over hundreds of people.
> This was a process error that you and others have decided to make into something it isn't.
There's probably been no less than ~6 executives that have been responsible for sales operations in that time frame, and that the sales process has been revamped and changes to how revenue is generated just as many times.
"Slack" didn't do anything.
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