Promotion???

Okay, so yes­ter­day the region­al man­ag­er rocks in and wants to have a pri­vate word with me. I frown, he says its noth­ing scary. We chat.
He offers me a new job, a ‘bet­ter’ job, more pay, not hav­ing to deal with the cus­tomers, not hav­ing to wor­ry about com­mis­sion tar­gets, prob­a­bly more work, more stress… and a trans­fer to the city store. Over­all a good thing.
I think.
Watch this space and I’ll keep you all updat­ed to my new life as “Storeper­son”.

3 thoughts on “Promotion???”

  2. Ah! The start of the end!!!
    How about if I tell you *my* sto­ry of the jour­ney into stores?
    Dur­ing Decem­ber, I was feel­ing quite unhap­py about the fact that I was head­ing into yet anoth­er Christ­mas with­out any sign of com­mis­sion — it had in fact been 9 long months since my last com­mis­sion pay­ment… oh, not like the Right Roy­al Frenchy.. All hail the mighty Frenchy…
    Oh, sor­ry, dis­tract­ed by the glo­ry and fame of good Mr French.
    Back to my sto­ry.. Here I was, head­ing into Christ­mas with very lit­tle mon­ey.. in fact, the nice peo­ple at CAC had decid­ed that my Christ­mas pay was the right time to deduct $100 for my Christ­mas par­ty con­trib­u­ton.…
    I was grumpy and unhap­py… this did­n’t improve as we moved into Jan­u­ary… The state man­ag­er, region­al man­ag­er or what­ev­er he decides to call him­self at the time con­fronts me and says “Rumour has it that you are unah­p­py and want to leave?”
    Here we are, it’s all on the table so I put it out there. I explain that I am unhap­py with the wage that I am on. I can’t sur­vive on the mon­ey I am get­ting now and since I am not get­ting my tar­get, I am not get­ting any comis­sion.
    So, the offer was put to me… Take a hol­i­day and when I return I will be moved into stores as I am valu­able to the com­pa­ny (ful­ly trained drone) and they don’t want to loose me.. (need to hire and train more drones)
    (skip for­ward a few weeks)
    Here I am sit­ting in stores. I have recieved half a day of train­ing with the nation­al train­ing man­ag­er and then she was off doing her own thing around the office.. reor­gan­is­ing things, mak­ing room here and there, throw­ing out old stuff and arran­ing to send back bro­ken or out of date prod­ucts to sup­pli­ers (as well as writ­ing hori­ble emails to the com­pa­ny direc­tors about my man­agers per­for­mance — com­plete­ly unfound­ed, but writ­ten and sent any­how)
    I get the hang of the job — the actu­all ‘job’ is easy per-say.… but there is so much to do, I strugle along and men­tion on the odd occa­sion to both my man­ag­er and the state/regional man­ag­er that I believe that this job requires two peo­ple (they did ask me to be hon­est) and that I don’t believe that I am able to com­plete all tasks as out­lined in the job descrip­tion.
    (jump for­ward three weeks)
    I now find myself hav­ing ‘a lit­tle chat’ with the state/regional man­ag­er and my man­ag­er.
    they sug­gest that I am not work­ing out in stores and I am going to be put back into sales.. Ah, but the good news!! They are going to make a posi­tion avail­able to me at the new store… yay! Back into sales, just where I always want­ed to be.….…
    (jump ahead 12 days or so…)
    anoth­er ‘chat’ has been sched­uled and it goes some­thing like this: (con­denced to save time)
    Them: “the gen­er­al fee­ing in the office is that you just don’t give a fuck any­more?”
    Me: “What would ever give you that idea?”
    Them: “We think that you might be bet­ter suit­ed to anoth­er posi­tion”
    Me: “Yes ?”
    Them: “In anoth­er com­pa­ny”
    Me: “Oh…”
    Them: “We’re not fir­ing you or ter­mi­nat­ing you or any­thing like that, but we feel that over the next month or two you should per­haps look for anoth­er job. We know that you can prob­a­bly do a lot bet­ter than here at Next Byte”
    They went on to explain that it’s not per­son­al or any­thing.….

  3. Hel­lo All,
    Back Again.
    It has been a while since i said hel­lo.
    Hmmm, hey Anoth­er Byter. i think I might know who you are…lol
    Sounds like you are in a famil­iar sit­u­a­tions to a lot of oth­er peo­ple in the NB cir­cle. I agree with you, the job does need two peo­ple or at least a bit more help.
    After read­ing through what peo­ple have to say, the gen­er­al thoughts are a bit mixed. From per­son­al expe­ri­ence, i loved the job, i loved the peo­ple (well most of them…lol), as for the com­pa­ny, and the way they treat­ed their employees…they suck…and not in the good way…haha
    Oh Hey Dave…don’t edit me…lol
    Any­ways, i’ll keep readin…it keeps me informed on the NB jour­ney…
    Ciao for now

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