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I think for the first time in my life, I'm gonna have to pass on a "promotion" that is being dropped in my lap.

The new gig would be running our warehouse's Automated Picking System (Picks = outbound customer orders) for my shift. I've been working as an "assistant" (lack of a better term here for y'all) on/off for about three years, so I have a general idea what should be going on with the gig.

The new gig doesn't offer anything beyond perks that would look good on a resume. I'll make the same (my hourly goes up, but I lose Incentive Pay. It's a wash in the end) and I take on more responsibility. I also go from being 1 of 200 people accountable for work getting done to 1 of 10. So when any of the other 10 slack off, I am likely to have more dumped directly onto my lap. Not something I want, as I have no desire to really get into Upper Management.

Also, I've been "training" with this system for two weeks now. There is ZERO formal training procedure. It's basically "follow your buddy around and ask questions on your own" only your buddy doesn't want to engage you in any way. Also it's quite clear that this has lead to training being a "Copy of a copy from another copy" situation. Like stuff that I know SHOULD be done is blatantly skipped/ignored, although not all of it is through willful ignorance.

I've asked myself "WTF is this?!" many times over these two weeks. It's 100% a case of fresh eyes coming in and not being able to overlook stuff that I know was normal but has evolved into something different and (and unless clarification was made above my pay grade) not acceptable, but is overlooked.

It's just a frustrating thing. And I'm not 100% sure what the reaction will be when I say "Thanks, but No Thanks."
 
I'm of the firm belief that it's just as important to know what you don't want to do as what you want to do. Good for you for making that realization. Though I have to ask - if this new position came with a bigger salary bump, would you consider it?
 
Scarlet said:
I'm of the firm belief that it's just as important to know what you don't want to do as what you want to do. Good for you for making that realization. Though I have to ask - if this new position came with a bigger salary bump, would you consider it?
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If they came in with an additional 12-15% raise, sure, I'd take on the additional headaches. Even with that, I have very specific questions regarding the accountability of others that would be asked and if they aren't addressed properly I'd walk on the position, even with the raise.

Overall I just see the position getting a lot worse before it gets better. I'm sure I hurt my chances for future consideration by passing now. It's just not a good fit for me with the other people involved.
 
RaceBoarder said:
If they came in with an additional 12-15% raise, sure, I'd take on the additional headaches. Even with that, I have very specific questions regarding the accountability of others that would be asked and if they aren't addressed properly I'd walk on the position, even with the raise.

Overall I just see the position getting a lot worse before it gets better. I'm sure I hurt my chances for future consideration by passing now. It's just not a good fit for me with the other people involved.
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It seems crazy that a promotion - especially to one of much greater responsibility - wouldn't come with a raise. Who would take that other than a climber that thinks it'll be a springboard?
 
My department is realigning into industry verticals, which I'm not thrilled about to begin with. But I was at least hoping to do anything except Telco, Gov't/Public, and Financial Services.

Where does my AVP put me? Gov't/Public...of course. *grrrrrrrrrr*

In 7 years of consulting, I've had two state clients, one city client, and ZERO fed experience. I also don't have a security clearance and I don't really want to go through the hoops to get one if we start closing a bunch of DoD/DoD-adjacent sales. I talked to my manager about it, and he thinks the AVP probably put me there because they need to balance out the product skillsets in each vertical and I have more ServiceNow product certs than most people, so I can cover a lot of gaps.

In conjunction with the realignment, we're creating a new Principal role for each industry vertical. The first three Principals to be created will be Manufacturing/Retail, Financial Services, and Telco. I've applied for Principal over Manufacturing/Retail and I hope I get it, or else someone hand me the Excedrin because it's gonna be a long year.
 
Scarlet said:
Happy Presidents' Day everyone! How many of you have the day off? I do not. Should be quiet, though.
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Old company used to. New one does not; instead we have "spring holiday" which is a way of saying Good Friday without actually saying Good Friday. OK by me, President's Day is too close to MLK Day, I'd rather space them out.
 
Today, I was urged by HR to apply for a case manager role within the agency. Would mean a good pay raise and a chance to actually sit down.
 
This is the first company I've worked for that offers MLK Day, Presidents' Day, Juneteenth, and Veterans' Day off in addition to all the other standard ones.
 
My company started giving MLK day and Juneteenth just last year. We don't get president's or veteran's though.
We are given 2 "diversity days" which are basically floating holidays to do with as we please.
 
MissThundercat said:
Today, I was urged by HR to apply for a case manager role within the agency. Would mean a good pay raise and a chance to actually sit down.
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Congratulations. Case managers are some of the most important people in my hospital. A couple are also the coolest motherf-ckers I spend time with.
 
psych said:
Congratulations. Case managers are some of the most important people in my hospital. A couple are also the coolest motherf-ckers I spend time with.
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I'm laughing as well because a few of the kids i supervise went from "I don't like you" to "can Amber drive us?"
 
wolverineTrumpet said:
My company started giving MLK day and Juneteenth just last year. We don't get president's or veteran's though.
We are given 2 "diversity days" which are basically floating holidays to do with as we please.
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We started getting MLK Day I think in 2020, maybe 2019. We got Juneteenth off in 2020. It was a Friday. It was after George Floyd was killed. It's been weekend days the past two years. Not sure if we will get it off this year. I haven't heard anything. We do not get Presidents Day or Veterans Day.

As my office is at the end of the Boston Marathon route, we would get Patriots Day off. All the family meet up areas are set up around our building and it's just a huge challenge to get in and around the city that day. As a trade off, our office would have to work Columbus Day while all the other Massachusetts offices were closed (they had to work on Patriots Day). Last year they told us they were taking away Patriots Day given how we all pretty much work from home on Mondays anyway, but they did give us an extra personal day to accommodate it. I don't know why they just didn't say "Now home office will have the same holiday schedule as the rest of the MA offices" and give us Columbus Day, but I'm always thankful for an extra personal day.

MissT - that's great news! Keep us posted as to how that goes.
 
I thought the excuse for getting the Boston Marathon off was "Evacuation Day"? Did that change or is that what Patriots Day is or am I senile?
 
Kepler said:
I thought the excuse for getting the Boston Marathon off was "Evacuation Day"? Did that change or is that what Patriots Day is or am I senile?
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Evacuation Day is March 17th. It's only a holiday in Suffolk County, which is basically just Boston. Patriots Day celebrates the start of the Revolutionary War. "On the 18th of April in '75, hardly a man is now alive who remembers that fateful day and year..." (Paul Revere's Ride).
 
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