I am a sandbagger. 8 years in. I always hit by personal goals and try to stack business to hit bonus tiers. My manager is telling me I’m a fool for doing this. I do it to be consistent. Thoughts?

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Your manager gets paid quarterly off your production. If you are pushing off cases to the next quarter to hit thresholds on your bonus grid, you are affecting his pay. As long as you know these cases you are sandbagging are still going to be there down the road, keep doing what makes you happy.

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Don’t worry about your mgr, do what’s been working for you. But personally, I never want to run the risk of losing any momentum. If i have a chance to open a new acct, I do it as soon as possible when it’s hot, then move on to the next.

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OP, can you explain this further ?

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