Career tips : An article like the one I read.

Before I leave to go home from the library, I found an article on the internet which fits what I just mentioned to you perfectly. I suppose what I said might not be readily believable so here's a link to a story similar.

Dated : November 2, 1998

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5725451.html

I appreciate the article but it's not necessary. It's almost 10 years old.

I did not discount what you said about prisoners. I KNOW this has been happening. I work in the legal field and have learned a lot about the jail system and the law. I used to work in retail several years ago and first heard it about it then.

However, the reason I didn't address it when you stated it is because it has absolutely nothing to do with you. The jobs these prisoners are getting are the low paying jobs that apparently no one else wants.

Why do you concern yourself so much about what other people are doing? Does it take the focus off you and your situation so you don't have to deal with it?

This article was published in 1998, during the dot-com boom and when Bill Clinton was president.

At that time, getting a job was as easy as falling off a log. I wonder where Mr. Gibbs is today.

Well then - there's your answer! All you have to do is go to jail! Once you get out, they'll be lining up to hire you! Good luck with that! I wonder if you can continue posting here while you're in the "big house"?

Listen Penguin face, just because you're rolling along in your little upscale enviorment doesn't mean you have to degrade the article. $30,000 doesn't mean much to you, but it certainly does to me.

In all of what next year will be 20 years in looking for a job, I've had only one year where I made the most money in one year - working security - $16,000.

You want to talk about pathetic, there it is.

Here's a company that didn't give a schit about me, and made absolutely no difference wether I stayed til I was old and grey, or up and quit which is what I did in 2005.

So go ahead, make another stupid argument for me not to have left.

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What would you have done to keep me around? Periodic raises in my salary? Transfer to a better working condition like a promotion from the security field of working in uniform on various assignments to inside the security management office.

Let me tell you something, that's what I would have appreciated had they done it, in return for what I thought was six good years I put in doing far more than what was required of me compared to those that usually quit after 5 minutes on the job.

But I wonder, if I know you, ( and I'm pretty sure I do ) you'd say no, and it's becasue of that answer, is the reason why I left and to this day will never regret it, even if I never get another job again until I die.

We've gone over this before. You should have came right out and asked for a raise. Instead, you asked for more hours and to work 7 days a week. That's very unrealistic because first of all, you said you were working so many hours already that you were finding it overwhelming and secondly, working more hours and 7 days a week leads to burnout. No employer is going to agree to that.

The employer would have been more impressed if you had used your brain and come to him with a list of accomplishments followed by a request for a raise. This all done in a professional and tactful manner.

Did you do that? No.

I was sure you'd come up with another one of your stupid responses, and once again you don't disappoint.

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You keep trying to incorporate your pretty little upscale white collar enviorment to the blue collar world.

Maybe in a high rise office building wearing your sunday's best, you can walk in with a typed or computer printed document from which you can read from : this so-called list of accomlishments to an employer's wanton ears followed by a response, something to the effect of that was an interesting presentation, perhaps I will consider it, in the meantime I will give you a decision by the week's end.

Unfortunately, in the blue collar world where people have faces of anger and frustration all the time, that response will be met with one which I think is far more accurate and probable than the former up above :

You're fired, now get the hell out of my office and don't ever show your face around here again, your last check will be in the mail.

Obviously, you've never tried it, so how would you know?

I'm sorry to say this but here we go again.

Somewhere deep inside that pretty little brain of yours, you think everything works in some sort of linear order.

It doesn't. It just doesn't. I can't explain to you why it doesn't and I really don't have the time, the patience, or the care to hold your hand and explain to you the ways of life and the world in which we all revolve.

Now let's try something new here, ok?

You might be asking yourself, if xttwo likes to advertise himself as such a good employee, why would they ever say such a thing to him, right?

Now that would have been a very good question to ask me. Interesting enough to almost make me want to reply, but unfortunately you didn't, which is why this whole conversation has gone nowhere since the day you first responded to me.

My security company, from what I gathered was very low key, as I always said, they might as well had a revolving door to their office, that's pretty much what the value of every employee was to them. Granted most of them either were incompetent which caused them to lose clients, or they themselves just didn't care to continue working. Unarmed security is a joke. Plain and Simple. If anything you might even say that my ending salary $7.75 was too generous, even after six years of busting my hump to get to work on time, work on the day my father was laid to rest, work the day I had to help my other surviving parent - my mother to the hospital back and forth a few days.

Six years girlie, and all for what. No promotion. No significant raises. I took my lumps working 50, 60, even 80 hours a week, from the day I took that job April 8th 1999, to the day I quit June 15, 2005, I took that job as seriously as if my life depended on it.

What did I say before? What would you have done to keep me around?

I notice you didn't answer that question, if anything you happily glossed over it and ignored it.

Perhaps because I'm right, you don't believe even after six years where you clearly know and realize how angry, disgruntled and resentful I became, wouldn't've made any difference to you - if you were the employer.

But dare not tell xttwo.

Give him an inch and he'll take 4 billion miles.

( NASA's estimated distance between Pluto and The Sun : 3,647,240,000 )

50, 60, 80 hours a week. Now that's a good amount of extra money for overtime at time and a half -- about $116, $233, $465 extra money each week, respectively. What did you do with that extra money?

I find that rather comical coming from someone who hasn't been out of his own state much less his own town and even his mother's house in his entire 34 years of life. Someone who gets all his information from the Internet and television and hasn't actually been out there experiencing life first hand other than going to the library for a few hours each day. Of course, you have all the time in the world -- you don't have any responsibilities in life.

The only way any manager is going to know what a subordinate wants is by the subordinate opening up his/her mouth and telling that manager. Only YOU know what you want -- the manager doesn't know until you communicate it!

You asked for the wrong thing - plain and simple. You asked for more hours, which was impossible to accommodate and unrealistic, instead of coming right and saying "I want more money" and giving the reasons to back it up. If the boss happens to say no, then you professionally communicate further with the boss and find out what you can do to get more money or a promotion.

What you think should lead to a promotion may not necessarily be what a manager believes. Most of the time a person is promoted because they demonstrated a take charge attitude, went above and beyond in their duties and responsibilities, had excellent communication skills, and this is a big one -- demonstrated that they could problem solve and get along well with people.

Because you have a problem getting along with people, have a very negative attitude and just aren't a take charge person, I believe those are the reasons why you were denied a promotion.

Career Tips

An article like the one I read.