Well ~ my boss is a bitch (and not the good kind like most bitches). I need to leave her. Even my mother has said I'd do well to not work with that evil woman.
So there's a job avalable now which a great majority of my co-workers and friends say I would rock at [within the company] and I VERY MUCH want to apply for it. However, 5 months ago I got a "written-warning" about something stupid and I am on a probation period of 6 months ~ during which I cannot apply for a position somewhere else.
HOWEVER ... I have friends in high places and can very easily go over my boss's head and apply anyway. All I'd have to do is call in a favor. I need to post for this job by Wednesday.
... And I didn't do it. Why? Because I am not sure yet if this is the favor I want to call in on. I REALLY want this job for 3 reasons. 1) its away from my boss. 2) I'd be a god at it. 3) It opens up opertunities to climb in the company unlike ones I have now ... because it is at a corperate level. (You correct my spelling, I kick your ass).
I LOVE the people I work with now (boss excluded) and I fear I'll lose touch with them to a degree if I leave. After all ~ as I mentioned in a previous post ~ I have a tendancy of getting too attached to my co-workers. But they are not the reason I didn't call in my favor and apply for this new job.
I have a feeling in the very near future I will be NEEDING that favor. I also have a similar feeling that if I apply for this job ... I will get it ... and shortly after I'll be forced to leave it. Its just a gut thing ~ but I've learned to trust that. My OCD has kept me in the same routine for 5+ years ... but there is a change coming. If the change doesn't come on its own, I will force it ~ dammit I need a change. It has been too long ...
I get these needs for a change and I get tattooed ... buy a pet ... pierce something ... dye my hair ... jump out of an airplane. I've had this desire within me for a long time and recient events have stirred embers and ignighted something long supressed and ~ I'm sorry ~ jumping out of an airplane just won't cut it for me this time. Dye my skin blue and write messages in marker ~ its not enough!!
And this job isn't it. Moving from Store level to Corporate level ... from customer service to computer guru ... it might be something that I want ~ but not so badly that I'm going to step on my boss's toes to get it.
I expect this big thing will happen very soon. And it won't be one thing. It'll be one of 3 big things going on at once. Possibly more (things I haven't started planning) ~ and when it happens it will CRUSH my boss hard. And I want to see her struggle and squirm. I am looking foward to enduring a few more weeks of her hell because I know something, purely my doing, will make her feel insignificant. She will have her power vetoed ... and I'll keep in touch with all my friends so I can hear about how she struggles. And I will laugh.
(No, I don't feel I'll be losing my job at my current location ... although it has been threatened many times. In all honesty, I believe my boss will be going before I do. <evil grin> Soon.)
So no - I did not apply for the job everyone things I should have. But I still have a favor banked.
So there's a job avalable now which a great majority of my co-workers and friends say I would rock at [within the company] and I VERY MUCH want to apply for it. However, 5 months ago I got a "written-warning" about something stupid and I am on a probation period of 6 months ~ during which I cannot apply for a position somewhere else.
HOWEVER ... I have friends in high places and can very easily go over my boss's head and apply anyway. All I'd have to do is call in a favor. I need to post for this job by Wednesday.
... And I didn't do it. Why? Because I am not sure yet if this is the favor I want to call in on. I REALLY want this job for 3 reasons. 1) its away from my boss. 2) I'd be a god at it. 3) It opens up opertunities to climb in the company unlike ones I have now ... because it is at a corperate level. (You correct my spelling, I kick your ass).
I LOVE the people I work with now (boss excluded) and I fear I'll lose touch with them to a degree if I leave. After all ~ as I mentioned in a previous post ~ I have a tendancy of getting too attached to my co-workers. But they are not the reason I didn't call in my favor and apply for this new job.
I have a feeling in the very near future I will be NEEDING that favor. I also have a similar feeling that if I apply for this job ... I will get it ... and shortly after I'll be forced to leave it. Its just a gut thing ~ but I've learned to trust that. My OCD has kept me in the same routine for 5+ years ... but there is a change coming. If the change doesn't come on its own, I will force it ~ dammit I need a change. It has been too long ...
I get these needs for a change and I get tattooed ... buy a pet ... pierce something ... dye my hair ... jump out of an airplane. I've had this desire within me for a long time and recient events have stirred embers and ignighted something long supressed and ~ I'm sorry ~ jumping out of an airplane just won't cut it for me this time. Dye my skin blue and write messages in marker ~ its not enough!!
And this job isn't it. Moving from Store level to Corporate level ... from customer service to computer guru ... it might be something that I want ~ but not so badly that I'm going to step on my boss's toes to get it.
I expect this big thing will happen very soon. And it won't be one thing. It'll be one of 3 big things going on at once. Possibly more (things I haven't started planning) ~ and when it happens it will CRUSH my boss hard. And I want to see her struggle and squirm. I am looking foward to enduring a few more weeks of her hell because I know something, purely my doing, will make her feel insignificant. She will have her power vetoed ... and I'll keep in touch with all my friends so I can hear about how she struggles. And I will laugh.
(No, I don't feel I'll be losing my job at my current location ... although it has been threatened many times. In all honesty, I believe my boss will be going before I do. <evil grin> Soon.)
So no - I did not apply for the job everyone things I should have. But I still have a favor banked.
2) I'd be a god at it.--i'd think you mean "good"
opertunities--opportunities
corperate--corporate
recient--recent
ignighted--ignited
sometimes it is good to keep the favors on hold until you really NEED them. usually if you stick around long enough, the people you most want to "get theirs" do, and it is fun to watch them squirm like an ant under a magnifying glass. although, sometimes they do start to stink...
as far as taking the computer guru corporate position, think about it for the next couple days. i know you obsess over things until you've made a decision, but even though you have made this one, keep your eyes open for changes in atmosphere. they can indicate a need for serious re-thinking. i think, though, that i may have a clue as to what you are expecting soon, and the "... and I'll keep in touch with all my friends..." indicates to me that i could be correct. if i'm right, and the route you are choosing to go does what i think it will, then you will need that favor elsewhere. good luck.
♥ firefae
edit: FINE.
[Edited on Nov 16, 2004 6:07AM]
And no, I ment god. Good is an understatement (No, I am not full of myself!)
Did you notice some of those words I used twice and spelled them right the second time
And the boss stinks already. The burning exoskeleton will be a welcome change.
I can't exactly thing about it for the next couple days. I have to hand in my application by noon Wednesday (the 17th) and if I call in my favor ~ it would need 24 hours notice at least. So .. by the time I arrive at work at 2pm [today] - the chance will have left me. (Although if they are as desperate as they sound ... the posting for the position will be up again soon enough).
What is seriousl?
I'd be interested to know what you suspect I am brewing up. Drop me an Email.
Thanks for the luck ~ you keep some for yourself though. What I need now is strength ... enough for myself and my friends. Some of them haven't jumped out of an airplane before .....