Company Man
February 25, 2010
I have now worked for the same company for five years, during this time I have made them a consistent flow of money, always having positive reviews from my clients and managing to work through the most difficult situations (outsourcing a client sites support, shutting down client sites etc).
I am getting to the stage now where I need a change; five years in this same role with no career progression is getting to me to put it simply I’m not challenged.
When they pitched this company to me they said things like “This Company is a fantastic place to build a career”. It all sounded so good, like I could settle in and be here for life and slowly progress up the ladder to a role that I would be challenged in, so naturally I moved myself and my family to Newcastle.
Almost two months ago I send my team leader and my boss above him (in total I have about five managers, sounds like Office Space hey?), requesting some help with my career, I said “I’m not expecting miracles or something to happen overnight however I want to get some input from you as to what my options are and how I could go about moving onto something more challenging” of course the email was more in depth than this.
One would think that a week turn around on an email like this would be acceptable, however not in my Company’s case, I waited almost two months before probing my big boss about if he had received it or had any feedback on the manner, to which he replied “There is nothing to move to within the group you are currently working in, you should try talk to other managers within the Company”.
Now I’ve slogged my guts out to make this Company money, I uprooted my family for this, and after five years I finally ask for some assistance and I get “fuck off this is your own problem”, at minimum I thought he could have sent off an email to a few different groups asking if there was any work, instead he just doesn’t respond then essentially tells me to fuck off.
When I get my 5 years service award, I’m going to spend my Coles-Myer voucher on some KY Jelly so when I get fucked in the ass it doesn’t hurt so much.
