Advice
Okay, here's the deal. I interviewed for a promotion at the library. I would be getting paid more money, and have the opportunity of working another 20 hours per week as a substitute. This is what I was really looking forward to -- the ability to be a full time employee making $18.95 an hour.
I got the job.
But.
It is in the ONE department on the entire eight floors of the library I do NOT want to work at. I haven't called the human resources lady back yet, to contest the positioning, or ask about any other options. I KNOW there is a part time opening in my department, which is where I wanted to go ideally, or even to a branch, but NOT the department they're offering.
This goes on to another problem in that library. I don't know who, but whomever is on the library board or whatever it is, thinks that this one department, Access Services, is more important than any other department, including my own, Social Sciences. They have transferred a messenger clerk up to them just because they can and said he was more needed there. Now we're one messenger clerk short, and have one on family leave for the next three months, and if I promoted, they'd be minus ANOTHER one. Again. AND we're short a full time clerk typist, and a part time one (that's the position I thought they would logically give me, since I've worked in that department for three years).
And now, I have a dilemma that I need your imput regarding. If I cannot get another promotional position somewhere else, do I follow the bureaucracy and acquiesce to their unfair practices? Or do I take a stand and refuse the position, thereby nullifying those perks I mentioned above, and taking my chances at another position within the city?
Basically another reasoning for not taking the promotion is that this is not my career. I plan to stay with the library as much as I NEED to -- basically to the end of school. I do not want to be working here for the next umpteen years.
Thanks.
-Torn WN
I got the job.
But.
It is in the ONE department on the entire eight floors of the library I do NOT want to work at. I haven't called the human resources lady back yet, to contest the positioning, or ask about any other options. I KNOW there is a part time opening in my department, which is where I wanted to go ideally, or even to a branch, but NOT the department they're offering.
This goes on to another problem in that library. I don't know who, but whomever is on the library board or whatever it is, thinks that this one department, Access Services, is more important than any other department, including my own, Social Sciences. They have transferred a messenger clerk up to them just because they can and said he was more needed there. Now we're one messenger clerk short, and have one on family leave for the next three months, and if I promoted, they'd be minus ANOTHER one. Again. AND we're short a full time clerk typist, and a part time one (that's the position I thought they would logically give me, since I've worked in that department for three years).
And now, I have a dilemma that I need your imput regarding. If I cannot get another promotional position somewhere else, do I follow the bureaucracy and acquiesce to their unfair practices? Or do I take a stand and refuse the position, thereby nullifying those perks I mentioned above, and taking my chances at another position within the city?
Basically another reasoning for not taking the promotion is that this is not my career. I plan to stay with the library as much as I NEED to -- basically to the end of school. I do not want to be working here for the next umpteen years.
Thanks.
-Torn WN