I didn't get the job.
I hope he made the right decision. It's a lot easier to accept defeat when I can tell that the winner really WAS a better candidate. She's younger with less experience, but her degree directly relates to the job.
Now I have a tough decision to make.
I work for two companies right now. One is clearly a better company to work for, because of several things. More opportunity, it's growing, successful, and actually has policies that make sense. Things get done, and mistakes are rare instead of standard company policy. This is my part-time job, and the one that just turned me down. The department is growing and more positions like this should be opening up in the next year or so. However, there's nothing open NOW.
The position that is open now is the trainer position at the other company. The other company is poorly run, has high level executives I don't trust or respect, policies that are VERY anti-customer friendly, and down-right stupid. It's also in a dying industry. With the right management team, it COULD be turned around, but we don't have that.
They kept an employee who has been accused (with 10-12 witnesses who signed statements) of committing sexual harassment. They promoted someone who is clueless simply because she's sweet and has been there forever. The former trainer was promoted as a favor to her husband (who was in line for layoffs). We also have an employee who makes at LEAST $4/hr more than 95% of the floor, and she is mentally retarded. Our CEO & CFO took $2million in bonuses 60 days before putting the company in bankruptcy. We don't have money to pay our bills, but we have $2 million to reward you for running this company into the ground?????
When they finally gave raises, it screwed about 15 people out of raises simply because they started with the company in January instead of February. The logic behind the cutoff was so that people like me - who had been there the entire time - didn't get two raises. I was one of the few who got a raise in 2001 because my review date was January.
So instead they fucked the new people out of a raise because they were hired in January of 2002. They didn't get a raise in 2001 because they didn't work here, and they don't get a raise in 2003 because they were hired before February 17. So people who were hired AFTER them get a raise, but they don't. So now - in 2004, the February people will get their second raise and the January people will get their first. This is NOT good for employee morale. Those January people are our core group.
They set it up so I don't get two raises (which I'm okay with), but they should have said this doesn't apply to people hired AFTER the hiring/raise freeze of 2001. When it was brought to the attention on senior management, all they could say was "well, I had to fire friends". So????? Worry about CURRENT employees and what kind of motivation you are giving these people to work their asses off for your million dollar bonus.
So - do I go for the promotion with the bad company (that I'll probably get this time, since I was the #2 candidate last time), or do I bank on more positions opening up at the better company and hope next time I'm the #1 candidate?
Right now I'm not sure.
Now I have a tough decision to make.
I work for two companies right now. One is clearly a better company to work for, because of several things. More opportunity, it's growing, successful, and actually has policies that make sense. Things get done, and mistakes are rare instead of standard company policy. This is my part-time job, and the one that just turned me down. The department is growing and more positions like this should be opening up in the next year or so. However, there's nothing open NOW.
The position that is open now is the trainer position at the other company. The other company is poorly run, has high level executives I don't trust or respect, policies that are VERY anti-customer friendly, and down-right stupid. It's also in a dying industry. With the right management team, it COULD be turned around, but we don't have that.
They kept an employee who has been accused (with 10-12 witnesses who signed statements) of committing sexual harassment. They promoted someone who is clueless simply because she's sweet and has been there forever. The former trainer was promoted as a favor to her husband (who was in line for layoffs). We also have an employee who makes at LEAST $4/hr more than 95% of the floor, and she is mentally retarded. Our CEO & CFO took $2million in bonuses 60 days before putting the company in bankruptcy. We don't have money to pay our bills, but we have $2 million to reward you for running this company into the ground?????
When they finally gave raises, it screwed about 15 people out of raises simply because they started with the company in January instead of February. The logic behind the cutoff was so that people like me - who had been there the entire time - didn't get two raises. I was one of the few who got a raise in 2001 because my review date was January.
So instead they fucked the new people out of a raise because they were hired in January of 2002. They didn't get a raise in 2001 because they didn't work here, and they don't get a raise in 2003 because they were hired before February 17. So people who were hired AFTER them get a raise, but they don't. So now - in 2004, the February people will get their second raise and the January people will get their first. This is NOT good for employee morale. Those January people are our core group.
They set it up so I don't get two raises (which I'm okay with), but they should have said this doesn't apply to people hired AFTER the hiring/raise freeze of 2001. When it was brought to the attention on senior management, all they could say was "well, I had to fire friends". So????? Worry about CURRENT employees and what kind of motivation you are giving these people to work their asses off for your million dollar bonus.
So - do I go for the promotion with the bad company (that I'll probably get this time, since I was the #2 candidate last time), or do I bank on more positions opening up at the better company and hope next time I'm the #1 candidate?
Right now I'm not sure.