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depressed rant

whisky

whisky

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This thread is a bit of a downer, so bail out now while you have chance.
In a few weeks I will have had my job for seven years.

In that time my workload has gone up and up as the service has expanded, up to the point where my work was so overwhelming they actually hired someone to help me.

This person turned into a good and loyal friend, makes work a pleasure to come to with plenty of laughs throughout the day.

He told me yesterday he is applying for another job in the service on a higher grade, and I think he stands a very good chance of getting it.

In this current economic climate any job that goes in our service does not get replaced.

I know I should be happy for my friend, but all I can think of at the moment is that I will not only not get any more help with my work, I will have to take on his work too, and come in every day to an empty office.

Plus once again for the umpteenth time in the last seven years someone who started on a lower grade than me bypasses my grade entirely and gets a higher paid job after serving only a fraction of the time I have put in.

I’m the sole provider for my family, he has a wife and daughter that both work.

Extra money just always seems to go to those who already have loads, where those who need it struggle with rising bills and frozen pay rises.

I know I am selfish, but damnit, when is it going to be my turn?
 
Can you apply for that same job? Have you applied for higher jobs? I have very little to say because of the way the world is right now, I would be happy to just have a job.
You are not selfish, that is not selfish. You have to be selfish in the business world. I used to try to think of others, and not myself, and that eventually got me unemployed. I have learned so much in this last year, but still have a lot to learn.
That probaby doesn't help, so I guess I will just say good luck and I really do hope it gets better.
 
I dont have supervisory experience, or previously worked one to one with members of the public, it always gets in my way applying for other jobs in the service.
 
Do you post here from work? I fear that mere association with this place may have a lot to do with it. :eek:
 
You taught him too well. He took your brain and ran with it.
 
Maybe you should get some experience with those areas by doing volunteer work?
 
Or some sort of internship. I applied to be Charlie Sheen's intern.
 
How did he qualify for the upper pay scale job when he comes from the same job you are doing?
 
whisky said:
I dont have supervisory experience, or previously worked one to one with members of the public, it always gets in my way applying for other jobs in the service.
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If your help assistant was in any way trained, coached or given pointers by you in order to learn how to do your job, then you have supervisory experience. And "working with the public" is such a bullshit HR term you might as well throw it on the resume and be done with it. Make shit up. What are they gonna do, ask for references from the people in the public you worked with? That's like saying "I'm a people person."

What you need to do, if you want to gain leverage in your company, is
1. Find out which ladder you plan to climb (sounds like there are a few options)
2. Find out what actual skills are required for that area, including any extra schooling etc.
3. Begin to know the people already IN that area who can help you move ahead. Never underestimate social networking, the real kind not internet bullshit. Your assistant who's now above you? THat's a contact for your future. Stay in touch, let him know you're happy for him and by the way if he ever needs a partner or someone he can rely on you'd love the chance to work with him again.

Like it or not, in order to move up the ranks you have to put yourself out there as a guy the people at that level will want there. That means a certain amount of schmoozing, and absolutely none of this "when is it MY turn" stuff, which only comes off as petulant.

Now if your business is any mainstream corporate or structured environment, these tips will work. If your business is selling crack, just shoot your supervisor and take his place. Problem solved.
 
NeonMercuryASH said:
Or some sort of internship. I applied to be Charlie Sheen's intern.
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Good thing you didn't get it, by all accounts his Detroit show was the fireball at the end of the train wreck.
 
I saw that. I commented.
 
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