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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 299860" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Girls thanks - and tawnya - printing it out and putting it up TOMORROW. lol - really I did - at home. </p><p> </p><p>and here's the rest of the story that I guess I've been too I don't know what to share. Also, yes I know there were several punctuation omits in my above post. For those of you who caught the Mexican as not a language comment? You get a cookie. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smug.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smug:" title="smug :smug:" data-shortname=":smug:" /> I didn't even go there with him. Like I said, no sense in doing a battle of wits with an <u><em>unarmed </em></u>person. </p><p> </p><p>Three weeks ago our boss hired a consulting firm to come in an assess his business. I can tell you from a personal stand point of being hired to take care of payroll for three and in a 1 1/2 years time doing payroll for 22 we have grown exponentially. I will also note there has been no pay raise for me. There have been pay raises for the men on their annual anniversary. </p><p> </p><p>I was not informed of the consultants appointment. I did think it was odd that all of a sudden the salesmen (the pooper) and the (other) guy were cleaning their offices. They simply said to me that sales calls were down and they had time. It didn't feel right. I stayed late to clean my office anyway and found out by accident a consultant would be coming in around 9:00 A.M. I also didn't sleep much that night as I anticipated and did negative forecasting that this was a way to get me cut back in hours. </p><p>I also figured the consultant would be a young man like those I work with. </p><p> </p><p>Imagine my surprise and moreso theirs when a woman in her late 40's, early 50's showed up. She was the alpha. No doubt. She had been in banking for 20 years and was all business. I liked her immediately. She had direction, and you knew if you worked for her it would never be boring. She spent two days interviewing all of us. She asked me for reports, timed how fast I got them to her. Checked how accurate I was. Asked what I felt were weaknesses and strengths. She said I was very spot on to her assessment of me. I told her the weaknesses would only get better if I had support from the owner. She agreed. No surprise. </p><p> </p><p>In her report to the owner with no bias whatsoever as it is a business win or fail - she told him the pooper is a slacker, a user, and a milker. He needs to be fired and the fact that he's actually kept him on the payroll nearly three years is a huge problem. Did he like throwing his money out the door? She said he has an office, equipment, cell phone, brand new company truck, uses more fuel than anyone in the company, gets a salary, has paid days off, vacation paid, and it has been shown in a cost analysis that every month he is paying him to stay at work. WHY? Then she said it was also mentioned that the owner would never fire him because their families were friends and it would not bode well to let him go. A threat. The owner did not belive it. She asked him "Why would I lie to you? Even his body language changed and his voice, posture and he was scary. I felt uncomfortable to be in the same room with him, yes it was a threat." </p><p> </p><p>Then she moved on to the (other). Boss said this was to be the manager. She said "He lacks the temperance to deal with stressful situations and is a hot-head. While he's an excellent sales person, that is what he is, and that is where he will do well for your business. This is about making YOU money. As far as handling people? No. Being your right hand man, caring for this company? No. He's a salesperson. He's not truly happy here, it's a blip on the map for him and if a better deal came along tomorrow he would walk." </p><p> </p><p>So my turn came. The page was flipped. In essence? She told him I was over-worked, underpaid and was the only one interviewed that had the ability, education and temperance to run his company. I was his right hand man. I needed to be promoted. I needed an immediate raise. At the very least since he gives everyone else a gas card to get to and from work and I run errands? He could do that. But....nothing. She told him that all the tasks she asked m to perform were done with perfection, spread sheets that I designed in Excel were brilliant and asked for copies to use in other companies, I'm highly organized, and in twenty years of being a banker if she was still in the business she'd offer me a position as her assistant, I was THAT good. </p><p> </p><p>So yeah - it's a little frustrating to hand over a $1k bonus to a man that you know isn't doing as good a job as he could or to sit next to a man who spends most of his day pretending to go out on sales calls when the wives of sub-contractors are calling you and telling you their kids have no school clothes but this jerk is having breakfast or lunch on the company dime, in a newcompany truck with air conditioning on company gas - not producing - yet still has a job and you're getting red pen marks and verbal corrections on pronunciations doing 5x the work, leaving for lunch in your 20 year old truck (but it's yours lol) with no AC - and thinking - OH please let me hit the lotto and get out of here.....<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" /></p><p> </p><p>Somedays you just need to blow it out your stack to your girlfriends...so you can go back and say - OHhhh Mexican IS a language now? Si! Mui Intelhenti. (Very Smart) Wow you got your degree where? I won't print THAT here...just in case. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/surprise.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":surprise:" title="surprise :surprise:" data-shortname=":surprise:" /></p><p> </p><p>Thanks Girls.....<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":laugh:" title="laugh :laugh:" data-shortname=":laugh:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 299860, member: 4964"] Girls thanks - and tawnya - printing it out and putting it up TOMORROW. lol - really I did - at home. and here's the rest of the story that I guess I've been too I don't know what to share. Also, yes I know there were several punctuation omits in my above post. For those of you who caught the Mexican as not a language comment? You get a cookie. :smart: I didn't even go there with him. Like I said, no sense in doing a battle of wits with an [U][I]unarmed [/I][/U]person. Three weeks ago our boss hired a consulting firm to come in an assess his business. I can tell you from a personal stand point of being hired to take care of payroll for three and in a 1 1/2 years time doing payroll for 22 we have grown exponentially. I will also note there has been no pay raise for me. There have been pay raises for the men on their annual anniversary. I was not informed of the consultants appointment. I did think it was odd that all of a sudden the salesmen (the pooper) and the (other) guy were cleaning their offices. They simply said to me that sales calls were down and they had time. It didn't feel right. I stayed late to clean my office anyway and found out by accident a consultant would be coming in around 9:00 A.M. I also didn't sleep much that night as I anticipated and did negative forecasting that this was a way to get me cut back in hours. I also figured the consultant would be a young man like those I work with. Imagine my surprise and moreso theirs when a woman in her late 40's, early 50's showed up. She was the alpha. No doubt. She had been in banking for 20 years and was all business. I liked her immediately. She had direction, and you knew if you worked for her it would never be boring. She spent two days interviewing all of us. She asked me for reports, timed how fast I got them to her. Checked how accurate I was. Asked what I felt were weaknesses and strengths. She said I was very spot on to her assessment of me. I told her the weaknesses would only get better if I had support from the owner. She agreed. No surprise. In her report to the owner with no bias whatsoever as it is a business win or fail - she told him the pooper is a slacker, a user, and a milker. He needs to be fired and the fact that he's actually kept him on the payroll nearly three years is a huge problem. Did he like throwing his money out the door? She said he has an office, equipment, cell phone, brand new company truck, uses more fuel than anyone in the company, gets a salary, has paid days off, vacation paid, and it has been shown in a cost analysis that every month he is paying him to stay at work. WHY? Then she said it was also mentioned that the owner would never fire him because their families were friends and it would not bode well to let him go. A threat. The owner did not belive it. She asked him "Why would I lie to you? Even his body language changed and his voice, posture and he was scary. I felt uncomfortable to be in the same room with him, yes it was a threat." Then she moved on to the (other). Boss said this was to be the manager. She said "He lacks the temperance to deal with stressful situations and is a hot-head. While he's an excellent sales person, that is what he is, and that is where he will do well for your business. This is about making YOU money. As far as handling people? No. Being your right hand man, caring for this company? No. He's a salesperson. He's not truly happy here, it's a blip on the map for him and if a better deal came along tomorrow he would walk." So my turn came. The page was flipped. In essence? She told him I was over-worked, underpaid and was the only one interviewed that had the ability, education and temperance to run his company. I was his right hand man. I needed to be promoted. I needed an immediate raise. At the very least since he gives everyone else a gas card to get to and from work and I run errands? He could do that. But....nothing. She told him that all the tasks she asked m to perform were done with perfection, spread sheets that I designed in Excel were brilliant and asked for copies to use in other companies, I'm highly organized, and in twenty years of being a banker if she was still in the business she'd offer me a position as her assistant, I was THAT good. So yeah - it's a little frustrating to hand over a $1k bonus to a man that you know isn't doing as good a job as he could or to sit next to a man who spends most of his day pretending to go out on sales calls when the wives of sub-contractors are calling you and telling you their kids have no school clothes but this jerk is having breakfast or lunch on the company dime, in a newcompany truck with air conditioning on company gas - not producing - yet still has a job and you're getting red pen marks and verbal corrections on pronunciations doing 5x the work, leaving for lunch in your 20 year old truck (but it's yours lol) with no AC - and thinking - OH please let me hit the lotto and get out of here.....:raspberry-tounge: Somedays you just need to blow it out your stack to your girlfriends...so you can go back and say - OHhhh Mexican IS a language now? Si! Mui Intelhenti. (Very Smart) Wow you got your degree where? I won't print THAT here...just in case. :surprised1: Thanks Girls.....:funny: [/QUOTE]
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