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Subject:RE: More responsibilities, but no more $ From:"Sean O'Donoghue (EPA)" <Sean.O'Donoghue -at- ericsson -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:51:29 +1000
Sounds like a bind.....and whilst I respect Andrew's well balanced
virulence.....(and why can't we be communists!!!)
I suspect a better way:
If the company is usually good by you, you trust the manager and the
strength of the manager to get you the raise in the future - well is it
worthwhile moving?
If the company doesn't seem to know what's it's doing and your manager is
ineffectual - begin looking around.
Don't move till you are confident that where you are going is better. No use
rushing around when you already have a job - even an unsatisfactory one.
I had a job once (okay imagine a cheap "fantasy island" shimmering effect
and old timer style voice) where I completely hated the style of management
and general ethics of the company and also how they were applied to me - and
I gradually let my feelings become obvious (I couldn't manage to hide
them!!). However with a mortgage, and children, I waited, plotted,
planned....and after one of the longest most drawn out job seeking
consultations I have ever had (took nearly six months for this company I
sought to join to decide they wanted me) got my life raft and
left.........oh and the greater than 20% raise helped to dull my pain at
leaving a job I didn't like where I wasn't appreciated.
Such moments are what the challenge of life and work and employment is about
- anyone who did manual driving lessons knows we all grind the gears till we
find the ones that mesh!
> I used to have a real a-hole of a boss a few years ago. I had a saying
> "Either I accept Joe (not his real name) and work, or I don't and quit.
> There is no in-between." Eventually, I could not accept him for who he
> was any longer and I quit.
>
> You can't have your cake and control the frosting production too.
>
> Andrew Plato
>
>
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