10 years on.....

In 16 days time I will have been with this employer for 10 years. If I am lucky I may get rewarded with a blue BIC ball point pen. And maybe an email sent to my peers to congratulate me, if anyone remembers. So what?

Well, I have worked here to the best of my ability. I have come in aggressive, and done the deed. I have also been moved from accounts which I was very successful in, to accounts I don't even begin to understand. Accounts I have zero understanding of. Accounts where it is impossible to build relationships with the powers that be. Basically, I've been shafted, as I was moved into a sector I was guaranteed to fail in, and all because they thought I was making too much money before.

Not that I took it lying down. I have had some success, and have cracked some good signings, but overall it has been a dismal place to be for 2 - 3 years now.

I've seen lesser employees move up in the company, based on who they know / hang out with. And they keep moving up. I've seen poor performers sent on assignment overseas! This because the company actually does not know what to do with them, can't fire their arses out of here, so send them away. And I've seen these same misfits conme back into executive positions!!! (The theory is that now they have had international exposure, they have more to offer the company!)

10 years. It's the longest I have been with the same employer ever. Should have run when I was on top! But, as we grow older, we tend to be less daring, and maybe think we are being more responsible this way.... But it comes back to bite us.

I'm looking around, and am sure that something will come up. I will find a job I want to get up for in the mornings, and where I will be working with competent people. I will not continue to put up with the poor level of support / service I get from the so called back office support team just because they are:-
1) Previously disadvantage
2) married to the bosses sisters sons bastard son
3) Screwing the departmental head
4) or giving head to the departmental screw!

These people are typical government civil servant type. They only come to the office so that they can qualify to collect their salaries at the end of each month! It is pathetic. And there is always some damn manager ready to cover their arses, or, worse still, accuse you of being racist and looking for a reason to complain.

So, it's fucked if you do, and fucked if you don't time! I'm really tired of this.

Salagatle!