Three years ago, my old company shut down the division I worked in. There was another local company that was in the cell phone business, but they didn’t need someone with my skill set. They did, however, have a slightly more junior position open that I could do. Since I had a lot of friends there, I decided to accept the job, even with the demotion.
One year ago, my company expanded the site, creating a new team. I was able to transfer into a role that fit me better. Since then, I’ve been working fairly hard, handling things obviously above my current pay grade.
Today, my manager told me that our VP approved my promotion. As of this coming Monday, I’m back to being a “Senior” developer…with a nice raise, an extra 5 vacation days a year, and a higher bonus target percentage.
And I’m still eligible for our yearly merit increase in a few months.
Oh…and I had my picture in the paper today. Totally unconnected. But it’s been a pretty good day.
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It looks good on paper. I can think of a couple of posters who’ll get funny-colored just seeing the location: Barcelona. Now let’s hope the boss isn’t a kraken, the corporate culture isn’t sick, and all those things which make a job actually be good and not just look it.
My job interview will be with three different managers, who I guess will [del]decide[/del]fight among themselves to see who hires me. I don’t want to go into details, but thanks to Linked-In, I know what department one guy runs and damn I want that job!
I agree…we have so many bad threads - other than an occasional wedding or child, there aren’t many great news threads. Being able to share this was almost as important as getting the promotion in the first place!
Ok…not really.
Totally…wireless? It is a cell phone company…
We can have a promotion booze-up dopefest…what’s halfway between South Florida and Australia?
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