Even if I wasn’t.. no one would know.
Everyone depends on me to be there for them. It’s not like I can go to them and tell them I’m having problems. I know I’ve tried. It’s ignored and I’m expected to just keep going, because it’s what I always do.
Not that I’m in a bad place, I just like the song.
Work isn’t bad, more stuff more responsibilities. Hate it. I should be the one that is slacking off and what not, but now I’m the responsible one who is in charge of all the things. I screwed up and did a whole bunch of training, in the last month I’ve done 280 training videos on Service Now, what I didn’t know is that it’s tracked. So now everyone knows I’ve been doing the training. For comparison, the next person on the list did 10. :|.
Wonderful. One thing I’ve learned from my time in corporate settings is never ever let them know how much you are capable of doing in a certain time frame. Keep the number low, set the expectations low and then no one will expect much from you. I planned on doing the training and taking the CSA (Certified system administrator) test for SNOW (Service NOW) eventually but now everyone has high hopes and expectations that I’ll finish it in a month or two.
My co worker took his test in March, after a year of studying. So now that I’m doing all this it’s expected that I finish in half the time. I started doing this in March of this year. It’s fine, the test is mostly memorization, multiple choice. And I have the SkillCertPro for the course. 17 sets of past tests questions and all that. So now I need to speed up my schedule, bleh flash cards for 17 tests (60 questions each?) Dumb.
My back has been, iffy at best. Had to work from home on Tuesday, which lead to doing nothing really. Yesterday after work just came home and laid down with an ice pack. 2 hours later was able to get up to have dinner, then laid back down. That’s when I decided to do the flash cards, at least I can be productive while laying there doing nothing.
The new place is, coming together but slowly. Ashley usually handles all the house decorations, mostly because I don’t care. While she does care, very much. Neither of us has had the time or energy to unpack things, we have our offices set up, kids rooms, living room etc. So the rest can wait. She’s also trying for the Director promotion at her work. I know that she can do it, easily, she’s already been doing it for months. The problem is that she’s in the construction business. Which, shockingly, is male dominated. Also the company is owned by an individual who usually only brings on family members to the higher positions. AND, they kind of want everyone to live in Chicago or the area so that you can be in ‘corporate’. Although most of them don’t go into the office, ever (why would they? They make all the money), she might be asked to relocate. Which puts us in an awkward spot. I can’t/won’t leave until seth has finished school here. So she might be moving to chicago and living there while working etc etc. But we’ll burn that bridge when/if it becomes a thing.
My major concern is her NOT getting the job. She’s worked for this company 2 times before and quit because of the way they do things.
The first time they changed her job to force her to do sales. She refused and quit. The second time, they begged her back promising there would be no sales involved. Slightly better pay. But in the year there she had to basically write their SOP for training new people and such. Then she asked for a promotion, but they refused. But expected her to still keep doing 10 -15 hour days. So she quit.
This time her former boss, Caleb, brought her back with the condition she will not do sales, she gets more money, can work from home 3 days a week and that she only answers to Caleb and his boss (Owner).
Then they fired Caleb, because Caleb, on a teams call mentioned some things about the best friend of the owners wife, so they fired him. And now his position is open. The company knows that if they don’t give her something, she will quit again. So she’s done the interview, and is really putting her all into this and I’ve asked her numerous times to not get her hopes up. Because if this falls through she’s going to be furious.
I keep saying you need to stop ‘expecting’ things, just because you keep working harder than everyone else, doesn’t mean you’ll get the promotion. In fact, the reward for doing the most work is almost always, more work.
And why would they promote her? she’s already doing all the work.
So what I expect to happen is that they will pass her over, and bring in someone from the outside, almost definitely a male, who will need her to train him and be condescending etc. and she’s going to be furious and quit. With no job or anything else lined up, because she got mad.
I’ve reminded her over and over that this is a possibility, and she agrees and says she knows and she’s not getting her hopes up. But this is exactly what happened the 2nd time she was working there.
She had the interview for the position a few days ago. They loved everything about her responses and the ‘only problem’ is that she’s never (officially) managed large teams. She’s been managing over half of Caleb’s stuff since she started back, but it’s not on paper. So.. yeah.
So that’s where we are. Waiting to see if she gets the promotion and how pissed off she will be if she doesn’t.
Wonderful.
In other news, I was promised a raise, but it won’t go into effect until the end of the month. How much? No idea. My boss pushed for the max amount he could get us, but I don’t know what that would be.
There, a ‘proper’ update.
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