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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Got the promotion! :-)

Of course, this is going to mean a lot of work for me over the next 6-12 months as I work with leadership to basically build out a sub-practice with tailored product and service offerings specific to our Manufacturing and Retail clients. It also means I will start to get involved in pre-sales meetings with prospective clients in those industries. I'm a little nervous, but very excited.
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Congratulations! Have coffee and pastries to celebrate!
 
All 40 women on my program between the ages of 25 and 35 seem to be named either Kayla, Kayleigh, or Kaitlin.
 
Question for you all - I'm trying to do a little better job of selling myself within my team, what I do, how much my internal stakeholders are grateful and thankful for the work I do. Whle I work on a team and support different team members, I do have my own responsibilities that my manager knows about but not much else. I'm trying to decide how to share all of the notes I get from my internal stakeholders that say thank you, or you rock, or this project has been seamless working with you, etc. Ideally, I would like these people to actually send a quick note to my manager to say "Just wanted to say [Scarlet] did a great job on this" or something like that, rather than me forwarding emails to my manager with them sending to me directly. Is it out of line to ask them to do that?
 
Scarlet said:
Question for you all - I'm trying to do a little better job of selling myself within my team, what I do, how much my internal stakeholders are grateful and thankful for the work I do. Whle I work on a team and support different team members, I do have my own responsibilities that my manager knows about but not much else. I'm trying to decide how to share all of the notes I get from my internal stakeholders that say thank you, or you rock, or this project has been seamless working with you, etc. Ideally, I would like these people to actually send a quick note to my manager to say "Just wanted to say [Scarlet] did a great job on this" or something like that, rather than me forwarding emails to my manager with them sending to me directly. Is it out of line to ask them to do that?
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Couple different things, and a lot of it depends on your ability to be tactful and any given specific relationship with a client.

Keep a file with all of the notes as a CYA measure in case you ever need it.

Best time to bring up the notes sent to you but not your supervisors is during a review, even if just in the aggregate while filling out the self-evaluation part ("This last quarter/year/whatever, I received numerous of letters thanking/praising/acknowledging the work I've done for clients."). If your boss questions that, you have the CYA file full of the notes you can share.

As far the step of having others send notes to your manager, best way is to also tie it to your review if you have that kind of relationship with the client. "Hey Jim, thanks for the note. Always glad to help and hear that I'm providing the service you need. I've got my review coming up soon and was hoping you could do me a solid and pass that note onto my supervisor so that they have a better understanding of the quality of work I'm providing on a daily basis. If not, no worries. Thanks" But again, only do that if you have the type of relationship with the client/customer that it'll work and if you can phrase it tactfully.
 
unofan said:
Couple different things, and a lot of it depends on your ability to be tactful and any given specific relationship with a client.

Keep a file with all of the notes as a CYA measure in case you ever need it.

Best time to bring up the notes sent to you but not your supervisors is during a review, even if just in the aggregate while filling out the self-evaluation part ("This last quarter/year/whatever, I received numerous of letters thanking/praising/acknowledging the work I've done for clients."). If your boss questions that, you have the CYA file full of the notes you can share.

As far the step of having others send notes to your manager, best way is to also tie it to your review if you have that kind of relationship with the client. "Hey Jim, thanks for the note. Always glad to help and hear that I'm providing the service you need. I've got my review coming up soon and was hoping you could do me a solid and pass that note onto my supervisor so that they have a better understanding of the quality of work I'm providing on a daily basis. If not, no worries. Thanks" But again, only do that if you have the type of relationship with the client/customer that it'll work and if you can phrase it tactfully.
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All this, plus whenever anybody thanks me or sends me kudos I say "I really appreciate that, would you mind terribly sending that to my manager without me on the email?" Likewise, whenever I want to send kudos I tell the person and also request they give me their manager's POC so I can send direct. People appreciate it and I have found the karmic wheel for taking the time to be extremely positive.
 
Kepler said:
All this, plus whenever anybody thanks me or sends me kudos I say "I really appreciate that, would you mind terribly sending that to my manager without me on the email?" Likewise, whenever I want to send kudos I tell the person and also request they give me their manager's POC so I can send direct. People appreciate it and I have found the karmic wheel for taking the time to be extremely positive.
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All of all of this. Whenever I send a thank-you, or great-job email, it always begins, “Dear so-and-so, I wanted to let you know that I just told your manager what a great job you did on X….” Telling the employee is great for engagement; telling the manager is the currency of the realm.
 
unofan said:
Couple different things, and a lot of it depends on your ability to be tactful and any given specific relationship with a client.

Keep a file with all of the notes as a CYA measure in case you ever need it.

Best time to bring up the notes sent to you but not your supervisors is during a review, even if just in the aggregate while filling out the self-evaluation part ("This last quarter/year/whatever, I received numerous of letters thanking/praising/acknowledging the work I've done for clients."). If your boss questions that, you have the CYA file full of the notes you can share.

As far the step of having others send notes to your manager, best way is to also tie it to your review if you have that kind of relationship with the client. "Hey Jim, thanks for the note. Always glad to help and hear that I'm providing the service you need. I've got my review coming up soon and was hoping you could do me a solid and pass that note onto my supervisor so that they have a better understanding of the quality of work I'm providing on a daily basis. If not, no worries. Thanks" But again, only do that if you have the type of relationship with the client/customer that it'll work and if you can phrase it tactfully.
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This is the way
 
Kepler said:
All this, plus whenever anybody thanks me or sends me kudos I say "I really appreciate that, would you mind terribly sending that to my manager without me on the email?" Likewise, whenever I want to send kudos I tell the person and also request they give me their manager's POC so I can send direct. People appreciate it and I have found the karmic wheel for taking the time to be extremely positive.
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I always CC supervisors when doing thank yous. There have been a few external vendors where I've asked for a supervisor's email and emailed them directly and CCed the person I'm praising.

You know you've done a good thank you letter when you get a call back immediately from the person and they thank you for the kudos lol.

sometimes a vendor just does such a great job you save that entire correspondence chain or work product in a separate file folder called gold standards.
 
Kepler said:
The return of slavery.

The return of slavery, Part 2.
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I was wondering whatever happened to that Foxconn plant in WI that Walker and Dump touted back in 2016. Turns out it's been scaled down from creating 13,000 jobs to creating less than 1,500 and the site will now focus on making networking and data warehousing equipment under subcontract rather than mass-manufacturing LCD screens. The total investment was renegotiated down to less than $1b from $10b and their tax incentives were cut from $3b to $8m. Obviously the LCD manufacturing will instead be sent to places with cheap labor and poor worker protection laws. Nice job getting hoodwinked, Wisconsin.
 
Today, I heard my supervisor tell me "we want to respect your time" and apologize for miscommunication that led me to coming in on first instead of second (I worked second yesterday).

This is refreshing. I have an employer who honors my boundaries and apologizes when they get it wrong.
 
Scarlet said:
Someday I’ll actually be considered part of my team. Unfortunately today was not that day.
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I'm very sorry to say that your feeling isn't likely to go away. But it will certainly make retirement day a lot happier, and you will not likely miss work at all when you are wandering through New England.
 
I'm being onboarded for a USAF project and have to undergo a background investigation to obtain a public trust clearance. Have any of our resident posters with federal experience gone through this and know what I can expect in terms of the scope of the investigation, any interviews, references & associates contacted, etc.? I assume federal/state/local criminal records, credit history, employment history, and all claimed academic & professional credentials are checked/verified. I don't yet know if it's considered low-risk or medium/high-risk, but due to the nature of the project it's likely I would have access to employee PII (full names, addresses, etc.). Security clearance for classified info is not needed/out of scope.
 
A guy I know who has been working in the biz for 20+ just reamed out his polygrapher for going after him during a Full Scope.

How can somebody who knows how polygraphs work do that? Of course they are talking nonsense. Their job is to pick something -- anything -- and then see if you'll freak out. That's the test, the poly itself shows nothing else and has no truth value. It's a test of emotionality.

Dr. Mrs. was accused of being a hacker (she barely knows how to turn on the computer). I was accused of being a drug addict (I am straight edge). The more absurd the better the accusation; that's the whole point.
 
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