Credit Stealing Cartoon – Sales Claims vs Reality
- Ravi
- Dec 13
- 1 min read
Sales meetings are full of charts, confident updates, and impressive numbers. But every once in a while, someone notices that the math doesn’t quite add up.
This credit stealing cartoon captures that exact moment — when leadership realises that while individual sales claims keep growing, the company’s actual sales tell a very different story.
Cartoon Punchline
Interesting… why are our actual sales a fraction of the combined claims of our sales reps?
What This Cartoon Is About
The humor comes from a familiar contradiction:
Each sales rep claims big wins
The combined “success stories” look impressive
Yet the company’s real revenue lags far behind
The chart already reveals the truth.The punchline simply says it out loud.
Workplace Reality Behind the Joke
In many sales-driven organisations:
Claims travel faster than numbers
Visibility beats verification
Success is narrated before it’s realised
Credit multiplies as it moves up the hierarchy
This cartoon compresses all of that into one quiet, uncomfortable boardroom question.
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