In at least one market, Cumulus is assigning salespeople to cover the front desk. Why? They apparently laid off the front desk/phone wrangler last month as a cost-saving move. This is happening in a top 40 market, by the way – AEs being asked to handle specific hours on the incoming phones. They’re told not to make their own sales calls or do their weekly reports while they’re on the front lines. Also to please make a good first impression for the callers. That might be a bit hard if you’re obsessed with making quota. By the way – I’m hearing more about the mandatory “five-day furlough” requirement that’s effective companywide for these last two months of the second quarter. It doesn’t apply to salespeople. Or to management. Cumulus apparently told the managers-only call Wednesday morning that they’re looking for market execs who can follow orders from Atlanta and execute the company plan without further commentary.
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