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Some of this is just me venting, and I apologize ahead of time.
I'm new here, because I feel very "alone" in my Pampered Chef life, so I'm coming here to try to develop a "family." Without going into all the gory details (though I will go into some), my Director and I just have serious personality differences. She is full-time with TPC and doesn't seem to respect that I'm only in TPC for a hobby and love of the products.
She lives more than an hour from me. For months, she wouldn't understand that an hour + drive on a weeknight for team meeting wasn't feasible. She texted, emailed, Facebook'd, etc... once even telling me that I needed to be more committed. Thing is, I'm committed --- to my job and my family. TPC is a hobby that I love, but that's it. I'd love to have someone to coach me that would be understanding of that, and not make me feel bad because I don't want to have 5+ parties a month or do TPC her way.
I recently had a party where the attendees had a bad taste in their mouth about TPC... and when I tried to find out the problem, turns out it was my director! One person confessed to feeling bullied by her at a previous party, and another said she wasn't going to come to this party until she found out it was a different consultant.
I've had lots of success with by TPC Facebook page... I schedule items to post daily and always get plenty of likes and comments. I mix it up - sometimes products, sometimes tips, sometime recipes. Today I posted about the retiring products.
Well, for the second time in the past couple of months, my director posted on the team page almost immediately after my post, with a very passive aggressive message. The first time, it was that I had done something she felt I shouldn't - so she posted for the whole team not to do "x"... I'd rather have just been approached about "x". Now today, she posted that you shouldn't post too much about TPC on Facebook as it comes across as desperate... and not to use the word discontinued about the discontinued products... Fine, whatever, but I am just over the passive aggressiveness and lack of respect for my position as sometime doing another job full time, learning to be a mom.
I'm ready to just ditch The Pampered Chef. I really am. I feel bullied and, with everything else going on -- especially this particular week -- I don't need the extra drama.
So, advice... can I switch directors? I don't think so. Can anyone give me any advice?
Some of this is just me venting, and I apologize ahead of time.
I'm new here, because I feel very "alone" in my Pampered Chef life, so I'm coming here to try to develop a "family." Without going into all the gory details (though I will go into some), my Director and I just have serious personality differences. She is full-time with TPC and doesn't seem to respect that I'm only in TPC for a hobby and love of the products.
She lives more than an hour from me. For months, she wouldn't understand that an hour + drive on a weeknight for team meeting wasn't feasible. She texted, emailed, Facebook'd, etc... once even telling me that I needed to be more committed. Thing is, I'm committed --- to my job and my family. TPC is a hobby that I love, but that's it. I'd love to have someone to coach me that would be understanding of that, and not make me feel bad because I don't want to have 5+ parties a month or do TPC her way.
I recently had a party where the attendees had a bad taste in their mouth about TPC... and when I tried to find out the problem, turns out it was my director! One person confessed to feeling bullied by her at a previous party, and another said she wasn't going to come to this party until she found out it was a different consultant.
I've had lots of success with by TPC Facebook page... I schedule items to post daily and always get plenty of likes and comments. I mix it up - sometimes products, sometimes tips, sometime recipes. Today I posted about the retiring products.
Well, for the second time in the past couple of months, my director posted on the team page almost immediately after my post, with a very passive aggressive message. The first time, it was that I had done something she felt I shouldn't - so she posted for the whole team not to do "x"... I'd rather have just been approached about "x". Now today, she posted that you shouldn't post too much about TPC on Facebook as it comes across as desperate... and not to use the word discontinued about the discontinued products... Fine, whatever, but I am just over the passive aggressiveness and lack of respect for my position as sometime doing another job full time, learning to be a mom.
I'm ready to just ditch The Pampered Chef. I really am. I feel bullied and, with everything else going on -- especially this particular week -- I don't need the extra drama.
So, advice... can I switch directors? I don't think so. Can anyone give me any advice?