Lets see how this works.
If a recruiter doesn’t make his quota, he feels the heavy pressure that he isn’t an NCO, isn’t doing his job, has to work more hours, has someone checking on every thing he did the last month. Basically the recruiter is made to feel worthless and is letting down the army.
It doesn’t matter that the recruiter was outstanding in his previous unit while deployed overseas. All that matters is he didn’t make numbers. After so much time away from family overseas, the recruiter thinks he can spend some time with the family since he isn’t going overseas and will be home in bed every night. So recruiter has to be at work by 0800 and may not get home till 2100. If your spouse isn’t understanding, it could get real rough since they have been told this assignment will be less stressful.
I haven’t even taken in account if you have a jerk for a Battalion Commander who is looking to make the next rank or a bad Command Sergeant Major.
How right you are. I’ve been lucky enough to not been pulled for that horrible duty. From other soldiers who have been “selected”, I’ve heard it’s exactly like you put it: every month is judged as a new month- even if the recruiter had the best numbers the month prior, he could end up getting a bad counseling statement. Friends of mine have finagled deployments instead of going to recruiting- that should tell you how much they didn’t want to do that.
“If a recruiter doesn’t make his quota, he feels the heavy pressure that he isn’t an NCO, isn’t doing his job, has to work more hours, has someone checking on every thing he did the last month. Basically the recruiter is made to feel worthless and is letting down the army.”
If you don’t make quota and that trend continues, you get FIRED. Even if your classifier is screwing you over by sending your prospects to other branches.