Tears and tension? Drama. If you feel so terrible take your partner with you! Yep have the sniveling boob be your guest. People life isn’t fair and if you have been in sales for more than a minute at any company you know there is a layer of how much you are liked to this layered cake. You can be the DBMs favorite but the RBD doesn’t like you. Or some of the other managers don’t like you, or better yet everyone likes you but your DBM.
Do the right thing poster-take your partner on the trip and let EVERYONE at COE know. Or don’t go at all. Take the money. Do you have the balls to do either? Guess I won’t know till I see you there.