account managers are spread far to thin for the work they are supposed to do. you spend less time "managing" the accounts assigned to you, and play call center rep due to the insane volume of calls/emails from yours and other AM's accounts. it's getting paid to get yelled at for 8 hours a day (if not more.) this is all on top of being micromanaged to death. you'll hear success stories from management about how much money the company makes, and how happy other departments are, while AM's drown in the workload. this is what leads to employee burnout and high turnover.