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fuck you. i was happy, because i'm moving to a better situation.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Jay wrote:

I get 10 vacation, 5 sick and 1 personal. Will go up to 15 after 5 years

what about paid holidays?  2 weeks PTO bumped up to 3 weeks after 5 years is pretty standard from my experience.

All the federal ones except mlk, columbus, and vets. Get a 4 day weekend for tg/bf though

Thank a union member for all your time off.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Thank a union member for all your time off.

fuck you, you fucking fuck.

Message brought to you by Rince Priebus, who, with a name like that, should be excluded by the Republican Party.

fuck anyone named "Rince Priebus", fuck him

Steve-0 wrote:

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Thank a union member for all your time off.

fuck you, you fucking fuck.

Message brought to you by Rince Priebus, who, with a name like that, should be excluded by the Republican Party.

fuck anyone named "Rince Priebus", fuck him

I get emails from the Republican national committee from Rince Priebus once a week. I must have signed up for the GOP newsletter when I was off my shit.

Steve-0 wrote:

fuck you. i was happy, because i'm moving to a better situation.

Cybargs forgot to say, everyone gets free healthcare here.

Are you usually just supposed to ask for a promotion?

Somebody who got hired three weeks after me got promoted even though we've both been in the same department for 2.5 years and I asked what it took, and she said she just asked them for it, and acted like I was a retard for not knowing that.  Then all the rest of my coworkers in the room kind of agreed.  Fuck that whole moment

Yeah, I sent my manager an e-mail earlier today asking what I would have to do.  It doesn't sound like it requires anything at all other than asking according to both of my coworkers who are at that rank as a Laboratory Specimen Processor II.  Not the most prestigious title if you know what it involves but I'll take what I can get.  Hopefully there's not some limit to how many can be promoted per quarter/year.  It looks like that promotion is based mostly on seniority and I've been at that job the longest of any of the specimen processors on night shift.  Honestly I felt pretty snubbed when I saw my other coworker got it first and they didn't even mention the option to me, it was only because she went and asked for it, which I wouldn't have thought to do at all.

Also, they probably don't encourage ppl to ask for promotions directly because money money money. I got fed up with our team leader who sucks up on other teams and is a real yes man with a skirt. She can't get shit done and has way too many ppl to manage. So I went all the way to the top and asked where this company is going to go and said I'd be interested in taking the Service Desk under my supervision. He was interested in the idea, since there's another city joining this circus of ours in a couple months and then we'll have about 25 more ppl over here. Plus this company keeps expanding in the future. Fingers crossed.

This is likely not what you want to hear, but there could be 2 reason's you got passed over for a promotion (apart from not having thought to ask for one): 1.) they actually need someone competent at the bottom of the totem-pole to deal with shit on-the-ground without worry of other duties interfering. That is, you might actually be too good at your job to let them get on without you if you move up. 2.) You actually suck at your job/have a bad work attitude and they are doing damage mitigation by keeping you at the bottom. Sometimes they'll 'promote' you to an office where you can do less damage, but that's not the case here.

So my advice is this:
1.) do what every else says and ask for the promotion
2.) ask at your performance review if there is anything you should do to prepare yourself to be promoted (training, job shadowing, whatever)
3.) if all else fails, try being slightly worse at your job for a couple of months. Worst case you leave a place that you had no future at anyways

Disclaimer: I've only seen this happen to other people at the office. I do not have first hand experience.

Pocshy2.0 wrote:

This is likely not what you want to hear, but there could be 2 reason's you got passed over for a promotion (apart from not having thought to ask for one): 1.) they actually need someone competent at the bottom of the totem-pole to deal with shit on-the-ground without worry of other duties interfering. That is, you might actually be too good at your job to let them get on without you if you move up. 2.) You actually suck at your job/have a bad work attitude and they are doing damage mitigation by keeping you at the bottom. Sometimes they'll 'promote' you to an office where you can do less damage, but that's not the case here.

So my advice is this:
1.) do what every else says and ask for the promotion
2.) ask at your performance review if there is anything you should do to prepare yourself to be promoted (training, job shadowing, whatever)
3.) if all else fails, try being slightly worse at your job for a couple of months. Worst case you leave a place that you had no future at anyways

Disclaimer: I've only seen this happen to other people at the office. I do not have first hand experience.

The promotion is literally exactly the same job, it's just a seniority title and pay-raise, it's not even really a position.  It doesn't make sense that they can't do it unless like you said, I either suck more than I thought, and I rarely ever hear grief from my supervisor so I don't think that's it.  Or the budget doesn't allow for more than a certain amount of such promotions in a year, or my manager is just extremely lazy to the point of not wanting to go through the promotion process without being nagged a million times which I would guess is the most likely.

And I don't mean to bitch so much, but I feel as though I really should've had this, it feels like I've been majorly screwed and it's the first time it's happened whilst at the first real job I've ever had if that gives some perspective

Ultrafunkula wrote:

Yay! Just got invited to a job interview

Congrats, was it for the position you were talking about earlier?

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IF you're irreplaceable, you get an offer for another job and then leave or use the leverage to get a raise