Closing!! Sales!!Month End!!Ohh!Ahh!!Ouch!!

Our month end protection gears

It took me one year and 10 months to pen down my thoughts on a melodrama called "Month End"

My sales friends would immediately relate this word with drama, emotions,excitement,pain,sorrow and may be "relief" but for me its an experience of its own kind. Till date I have had 22 month ends and believe me each one comes with surprises of some new degree and its even more exciting.

After spenting 29 days a month slogging in the market, convincing retailers why I am better and why they should stock my product, its time to enter the climax of the movie which SRK rightly says, "picture abhi baaki hai mere dost".

The distributors too are aware of this "dreadly word" and make every possible way to avoid being part of it. Phone switch off/out of town/bank holiday/father not in town blah blah blah are few such excuses which are common but I tell you we know that all.....

Now, the best part in a month end is the conversation between the distributor and salesmen wherein you try to give all possible logics, counter logics, defencive logics , emotional logics and some "WTF" logics to come victorious.

Some succeed whereas some don't but that's what it is all about..!! Your mind thinks, sleeps,eats numbers and you get nightmares if at all you get some sleep.

Your phone is on a non-stop busy mode and your family forgets you for a week..!! Your calculator battery consumption is max during this period and you wonder why 2 plus 2 cannot by 100. You calculate, recalculate, reverse calculate and do all possible permutation and combination to derive to that number but unfortunately freaking surprises do come your way..

Now it's the time to tell your boss about the surprise and you very well know that "bosses don't like surprises". Your mind is in a fix to tell or not to tell...to tell as it is or add some fictitious numbers which from the core of your heart you know that it CANNOT be done.

While you are calculating mentally, your phone rings and its your boss, you pic up the phone and instead of you TELLING a number you GET a higher REVISED & RECALCULATED number. Before you can say BUT, BECAUSE, NOT POSSIBLE, DIFFICULT your phone is disconnected You sit back, have a smoke, call your colleauge for some moral support and finally check out your mails for some new job offer but alas! its not your day. You take out your magic calculator which again gives 2 plus 2 as 4, you are exhausted, you are down and you wonder why at all you need to go through this period. Time passesby and you are eagerly awaiting sunrise..!!You somehow gather courage and survive that difficult day of the month which dear friends is called the "MONTH END"...

Surviving since 22 month ends..!!