An Update on Clark's Promotion
Clark has the job!
He had an interview with Step-on-me on Friday to update him on his promotion. Turns out, the 3% raise he received for not leaving to find a new job and promising to work on his attitude WAS his promotion. I love these people that change the past in order to suit their needs.
However, he doesn't get his new title until HQ finishes redefining all the positions at ICE. The tenative date for redefinition of all ICE jobs is Fall 2005. That'd make it about 1.5 years that Clark has been doing this job that he doesn't like doing without a change in title or a substantial promotion.
But! There's a silver lining (maybe)!! When the jobs are redefined, it's likely that the salary catagories will adjust, and Clark will get a raise then, right? WRONG!! Because ICE is in the whole this year, won't hire new employees even though they're losing them left & right, and they give out yearly promotions (about 1-5% raises) in the summer. That means that they'll either pick the lowest catagory possible or give everyone a pissant 1% raise for the yearly promotion and a 3% raise for the redefinition! Hey! They recatagorized everyone and gave raises. All that matters is that it LOOKS LIKE they made an effort on paper, right?
Currently Clark's beyond caring and is looking for alternate employment.
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in other news, I'm very interested as to how this whole redefining will work out. I'm currently an assistant editor (there is NO real editor that I assist) but I do graphic design work. However, as I've noted earlier, my CEOs don't want us thinking that we're artists or designers because they can't work with them. WTF?? Just because they slap a label on what they want us to be, doesn't mean that the rest of the world won't think otherwise.
Step-on-me is very excited about the chaos that our new 'designer' or 'artist' titles will cause.
....well, kinda
He had an interview with Step-on-me on Friday to update him on his promotion. Turns out, the 3% raise he received for not leaving to find a new job and promising to work on his attitude WAS his promotion. I love these people that change the past in order to suit their needs.
However, he doesn't get his new title until HQ finishes redefining all the positions at ICE. The tenative date for redefinition of all ICE jobs is Fall 2005. That'd make it about 1.5 years that Clark has been doing this job that he doesn't like doing without a change in title or a substantial promotion.
But! There's a silver lining (maybe)!! When the jobs are redefined, it's likely that the salary catagories will adjust, and Clark will get a raise then, right? WRONG!! Because ICE is in the whole this year, won't hire new employees even though they're losing them left & right, and they give out yearly promotions (about 1-5% raises) in the summer. That means that they'll either pick the lowest catagory possible or give everyone a pissant 1% raise for the yearly promotion and a 3% raise for the redefinition! Hey! They recatagorized everyone and gave raises. All that matters is that it LOOKS LIKE they made an effort on paper, right?
Currently Clark's beyond caring and is looking for alternate employment.
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in other news, I'm very interested as to how this whole redefining will work out. I'm currently an assistant editor (there is NO real editor that I assist) but I do graphic design work. However, as I've noted earlier, my CEOs don't want us thinking that we're artists or designers because they can't work with them. WTF?? Just because they slap a label on what they want us to be, doesn't mean that the rest of the world won't think otherwise.
Step-on-me is very excited about the chaos that our new 'designer' or 'artist' titles will cause.
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