I recently changed jobs.
It was a hard decision. I had
applied to a job within the company that was management, I was perfectly suited
for the job and the only thing I did not have was explicit business experience;
I had implicit business experience of working in the industry for 15
years. So, they did not even give me an
interview. But the problem was right
after I applied for that job I also applied to a job outside the company. I would never have applied to the job if I
had not already applied for the manager job, because, as I put it to everyone, I
had already decided to leave my position, applying outside the company was a
tiny step more.
When I was not even given an interview, I felt personally
injured, jilted. Wronged. Later the same day the other company called
me and offered me a job. So I accepted,
because the combination of being treated like shit and getting a new job offer
and making me feel good. I know that it was an emotional decision. But. But
is was intellectually a smart decision too.
they were offering me more money and more vacation equal benefits and
perhaps more benefits too. Less work and
greater chance of rising in the company too, and they did not treat me like
shit.
When I told them
that I was leaving, they threw more money at me. They offered me $2000 dollars a year less
than the new job. It might have been
enough, if I had had a month to think about it.
I really liked working with the people that I worked with. I really liked them, the managers were great
people, but they were not great Managers and the company was also falling short
in other ways too. I did not want the
job that I had applied to in that company, but I would have done the job well. But they were so sure that I was not the
right person for it.
They told me I did
not get an interview for the job a day after they interviewed the people who
applied for the job and found them all wanting.
Which tells me that they did not find someone for the job but they knew
they did not want to give me a chance. Which
I found hilarious because the person they had in that job was incompetent. He had business training but no knowledge how
to apply it. I would go as far to say
that he was seen as doing a good job only because I was carrying him, although when
I say that, I feel that is a boastful statement that does not become me. But it is true. When I left, I asked for an exit interview
because there were a number of things that were wrong at my store that I
thought should be fixed to improve the morale and to integrate the management
with the workers in the store. I wanted
the managers to improve or do better. Some
of them were okay. But they were all
apart from the store, meaning that there was a real divide between them and the
rest of the staff. And they could heal
the rift by taking measures to join the rest of the workers rather than to keep
everyone apart.
I was on the other
side and worked with the staff. I did
not feel the rift between the two sets of workers as much but I could read it
in them. The managers stayed hidden in
their office and the workers had the run of the store, the managers needed to
come out and join the staff. That’s it,
that would have healed the store.
My new employer is
an Insurance company, and they want me to be well trained, they are giving me 5
weeks of training and I have 1 more week.
It is all nerve wrecking because it is all new but they are paying me,
and they have told me that almost no one fails to get out of training. Only after weeks of additional reinforcement
and months of substandard work. Haha,
they expect that they say, because we are still training after three months. They expect us to make mistakes and they promise
to correct us and not leap on us for an error.
I hope I make it
through training intact.
I hope that I can go back to My old company, and I whish
them well. But I heard they have not
replaced me and they have not hired someone for the Manager job they did not
want me in. I told them that I could do
my old job and the new job at the same time, if they wanted. My old job took a lot of my time, but it was
getting boring, because there was no challenge to it.
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