nanz,
like you, I am supposed to do sales and marketing but now my time are spent doing management reports, A&P proposal, P&L, annual operating plans etc.... full set of everything, not just supply data but everything from scrap, so everyday cracking my head on coming out with effective promotions lah, do up all bloody kinds of proposal with P&L for approval lah and then to kick off, I have to do everything myself too from finding suppliers till briefing customers on the program etc......, no help at all! then after that, still got to do activity reports and track reports on the program and promotions, so tedious. You have to do that????? I am everything you know, from the manager, till the sales, till the purchasing, till the marketing, till the delivery man, cover all. The other day, me and my other colleague who is doing similar job but another area complaining after HQ rejected our business plans, and told us to come up with a different business model, both of us are cursing and swearing, if we can come up with something that is so fantastic and fullproof, we will not be working for you, might as well take our own plan and start our own business, anyway we do everything from the scrap!
the more i complain, the more hot i am now! Forget it, forget it, not goin to think about it again.