So I had the meeting with the boss's boss this morning. We met outside the canteen, and discussed the OO position, and I gave him my educated reasons for not wanting to take the job. Then he gave me his side of the story, and explained how the executive is in a situation where he really has to get an OO for this specific position who has:-
a) knowledge of the company process and procedures (that's me)
b) kicks ass if he has to to get things done (that's me)
c) is comfortable in the client space, even at "C" level (that's me)
d) can move opp. along and get all the required sign offs (that's me)
e) has the expertise / experience in this role (that's me)
Now, if I fit this role so well, it means I must be one of the "best" in our current team? Or am I wrong?
If so, WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T I GET AN INCREASE THIS YEAR???
So, we agreed that they should re look the opp., and also come with an indication of what the relevant targets would be for the 2nd half. After all, I am here to earn money. If the target is unrealistic, I would be stupid to take the role, seeing as I'm on track to make target in my current position, and hence earn some commission. If the target is reasonable, there is still the question of will this be a permanent thing, or short term till the OO team catch up?
And finally, what will happen with my current position? Will it get filled? or will my colleague be lumped with my target and account set, and find himself in the really deep stuff, floundering and unable to cope, and not make commissions? This last problem bugs me most, as it would be unfair, and probably leave this sector in the deep shit it was in a year ago when my colleague and I got it, and pulled it into the leading sector overall it is today.
So, time will tell.
Salagatle!
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Sounds like lots of sweet talk, make sure you know what you are letting yourself in for as it could cost you in the end
Bad bosses get promoted - study
Aug 03 2007 06:50 AM
New York - How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a study released on Friday.
In the study to be presented at a conference on management this weekend, almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways.
"The fact that 64.2% of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad leader is rather remarkable - remarkably disturbing," wrote the study's authors, Anthony Don Erickson, Ben Shaw and Zha Agabe of Bond University in Australia.
Despite their success in the office, spiteful supervisors can cause serious malaise for their subordinates, the study suggested, citing nightmares, insomnia, depression and exhaustion as symptoms of serving a brutal boss.
The authors advocated immediate intervention by industry chiefs to stop fledgling office authoritarians from rising up the ranks.
"As with any sort of cancer, the best alternative to prevention is early detection," they wrote.
They faulted senior managers for not recognising the signs of workplace strife wrought by bad bosses. "The leaders above them who did nothing, who rewarded and promoted bad leaders ... represent an additional problem."
The study will be presented at the annual meeting of the
Academy of Management, a research and teaching organisation with nearly 17 000 members, from Sunday to Wednesday in Philadelphia.
- Reuters
Dude....your colleague is also looking around for greener pastures (he told me). Does he tell you everything? Does he care if you get lumped with everything if he leaves? Methinks not.
Look after Numero Uno...
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