An insurance agent argues the industry's override system is broken: managers keep collecting commissions on agents they hired long after those agents surpass them, creating dangerous dependency on single producers. He compares it to a Home Depot manager demanding profit-share from a stocker who became CEO.
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If your main guy's doing fucking over half your volume, you get in a pickle if you don't fix that quick. 'Cause again, the reality is if we go, I'm doing $200 grand and this guy's doing $170 and outside all I have is $30, who built? Him or him? They built. You didn't do shit but hire him. Problem with the industry is this person expects to get paid on this person for the rest of the time like they fucking own them. Let's pretend we're at Home Depot and this guy, we'll call him Bob, hires Steve. Bob's like head of some department, pick it, fucking plumbing, who cares? And he hires Steve to fucking stock the plumbing supplies. If this fucker Steve climbs up and he runs Home Depot, does this asshole deserve to get paid still? He's still running the plumbing department. This guy's the CEO now. What does he get? He don't get shit. He didn't do anything. He did it. All he did was hire him. Maybe he got some money when they moved more plumbing equipment early, but dude's running Home Depot. Bob ain't like, where's my override? I hired him. It's only in our space where it gets fucking weird.