[ALEXIS_DH]

finally, my job hunt has ended.
today, at 10am i received a formal offer, which i have promptly answered.

pay is a whopping 150% more than my current job, the job duties are virtually the same, and the schedule is much better. (i get saturdays off, so first thing next week is to buy an all-mountain bike).
insurance coverage remains the same while perks and benefits are also improved.

so, ill get more time to ride my bike and spend with the wife.

i´ll hand my resignation letter in a couple hours (first time i do this, as this is my first "corporate" job).

its been such a good day.

 

[stosh]

Congrats!!! Thats great to hear!

 

[stoney]

Awesome!

 

[skibunny24]

nice work!

 

[binary visions]

150% more? So you're making 2.5x your old salary? With more time off?

Sign me up for some of that.

Congrats

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

150% more? So you're making 2.5x your old salary? With more time off?

Hopefully his new gig isn't accounting.

 

[jackalope]

Coca Cola QA/QC manager? I kid, I kid! Congrats and enjoy the new AM bike.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

150% more? So you're making 2.5x your old salary? With more time off?

yup, 2.5x my current salary. goes to show how underpaid, for the responsabilities, I was.
i was on a supervisor-level pay, but my functions were that of a division-manager.

i just handed my resignation a few minutes ago. my boss was pretty happy for me.

now the problem will be facing to the general manager. he is out of the country.
he is the pointed hair boss of my dilbertian workplace, the one who wonders why he cant find good bosses for half the market rate, and why 30% of the division left over the last 8 months.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

yup, 2.5x my current salary.

 

[Nick]

that's fantastic Alexis ... congrats!!!!

 

[Iridemtb]

Way to go man! I bet that extra income is going to afford a few new toys.

 

[stevew]

yup, 2.5x my current salary.

all to be spent spent on quality sheets.

 

[Quo Fan]

Congrats on the new jorb.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Congratulations and good luck!

 

[Jeremy R]

Congrats!
Time to celebrate!

 

[kazlx]

Dude that's awesome. Congrats!

 

[canadmos]

now the problem will be facing to the general manager. he is out of the country.

Why care? You'll be gone soon enough anyways, its not longer part of your problem. Grab a few references from friendly employees and call it a day. Enjoy life

I guess with that pay raise, you won't have to worry about replacing your SLR camera every 3 weeks. lol

Congrats!

 

[jdcamb]

Does the new job cover your rehab? I found out how much it's going to cost to go to Peru for your intervention. I cannot afford it.

 

[Pesqueeb]

150% more? So you're making 2.5x your old salary? With more time off?

Sign me up for some of that.

Congrats

Congratulations.

 

[ICEBALL585]

yup, 2.5x my current salary.

Congrats... you lucky bastard.

 

[binary visions]

I sent my boss a text this morning informing him that someone I know just got their salary multiplied by 2.5x, and if he could let me know when I was slated for such a raise, I'd appreciate it.

He said he'd talk to HR

 

[jimmydean]

Nice work, dude!

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

I sent my boss a text this morning informing him that someone I know just got their salary multiplied by 2.5x, and if he could let me know when I was slated for such a raise, I'd appreciate it.

He said he'd talk to HR

i see you too are a go-to guy for management.

i was sick of it.
i did all the business planning, handled operations, did the training, reported to the big suits in Japan (I work for Mitsui) and even had my name erased from reports, only to have my boss stamp his on top because "we cant this information under your name, it has to be signed by a senior manager"...

hell, I even traveled abroad quite a few times, in representation of my company, to business and product development meetings to mingle with other country-level managers and big suits from South America, who had the same functions I did, yet made 3 times more than me.

so finally, a competitor noticed this, and offered me the appropiate title and salary, for the work i was already doing at my company.
I´ll be working here until the end of march, unless the CEO aproves my leave before (on the 8th, when he comes back from a trip). I have written my new employer to inform Ill be starting on april 1st.

I feel my life over these last 2 days is like dilbert, with a happy ending.

 

[dan-o]

I´ll be working here until the end of march, unless the CEO aproves my leave before (on the 8th, when he comes back from a trip). I have written my new employer to inform Ill be starting on april 1st.

Congrats Alexis.
Is such departure notification standard where you live?
Most US companies would show you the door the second you notified them of your job change.

My suggestion is either take a month off for riding trips/Coke detox or, if you must keep working, jump on the new position and start banking the cabbage.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

Congrats Alexis.
Is such departure notification standard where you live?
Most US companies would show you the door the second you notified them of your job change.

My suggestion is either take a month off for riding trips/Coke detox or, if you must keep working, jump on the new position and start banking the cabbage.

30 day notice is the maximum an employer can ask me to stay after I quit, unless they waive this right by written. Its kinda stardard for jobs where you handle information, I´m expected to train my replacement in this 30 days, and handle him all the information on the company.

They wanted me to wait until the 8th to talk with the CEO, I´m guessing they are waiting for him and hope he can make me a competitive counter-offer... since they have told me they wish I could stay, and why didnt I ask for a raise or complain before (as in bitch and moan, instead of politely ask which I did).... but could only counter-offer with 30% more tops.

regardless of their offers, I´ve made my decision, I´ve been job hunting for almost 6 months....

 

[eaterofdog]

Congrats. Fvck those slave-drivers.

 

[Mo(n)arch]

Congrats dude. Glad to see that hard work pays off.

 

[worship_mud]

all to be spent spent on quality sheets.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to stevew again.

 

[bizutch]

Hope you've backed up every piece of data you've ever used there to someplace you can't be traced. The instant you tell them, they'll escort you out the door.

Nobody lets you "finish the week out". They think you're going to take every piece of company date known to man from that instant forward.

It's like telling your "friend with benefits" you're moving to the beach next week. She knows you're gonna drop trough with strangers in the sand, so she puts the goods on lock down and you get no goodbye ditty!

 

[MTB_Rob_NC]

Hope you've backed up every piece of data you've ever used there to someplace you can't be traced. The instant you tell them, they'll escort you out the door. !

So you are suggesting stealing? That's good to know

Nobody lets you "finish the week out". They think you're going to take every piece of company date known to man from that instant forward.

You are making that statement based on your vast experience as:
An employee of value, with exposure to sensitive information that has given their notice and asked to leave?
A manager/executive that has escorted someone off property when they have given notice?

I am guessing neither and you are just talking out of.... Well you fill in the rest

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

Hope you've backed up every piece of data you've ever used there to someplace you can't be traced. The instant you tell them, they'll escort you out the door.

Nobody lets you "finish the week out". They think you're going to take every piece of company date known to man from that instant forward.

It's like telling your "friend with benefits" you're moving to the beach next week. She knows you're gonna drop trough with strangers in the sand, so she puts the goods on lock down and you get no goodbye ditty!

so far, my company has been pretty cool about it (the big boss doesnt know yet though).

i still have my company laptop with me, am expected to close this weekend a deal i had brewing; and had a meeting earlier with a guy who will handle some of the things i have due for the next month.

in about an hour, I have a meeting with a a japanese visitor from Toyota, who am expected to work with in order to make a bid for a business we are trying to win next quarter.

then, on monday-tuesday, another high-level japanese visitor from Toyota comes to check the status of our after-sales operation. I´ve confirmed I´ll be here to host him, and discuss the results of last year and the outlook for 2013-2014 along with some mid-term plans we have, and some overdue commitments we have made over the last year.

so i guess i´ll be sparred (for now) from an uncivil leave. hopefully i think they will peacefully let me go, once i pass over all the information and leave everything running to the next guy, which might take well under a month.

 

[bizutch]

So you are suggesting stealing? That's good to know



You are making that statement based on your vast experience as:
An employee of value, with exposure to sensitive information that has given their notice and asked to leave?
A manager/executive that has escorted someone off property when they have given notice?

I am guessing neither and you are just talking out of.... Well you fill in the rest

Shouldn't you be somewhere questioning your own self image?

I am speaking from experience on all sides.

If he deals with customer files and contacts that he only keeps on a work computer and/or cell, they will immediately take them from him and change his passwords. Even if one states you are not moving to a competiting firm in the same industry, an employer will assume that is possible and not take any chances.

I have been an employee (who did not sign a no-compete clause) moving to a competitor. Was locked out overnight. Had I not saved my Outlook contacts to Plaxo on a consistent basis, I'd have lost every phone and email address I knew. I was not stealing clients and took nothing more than my contact list, which was legal and allowed.
But that witch tried to.

I've had to escort employees to HR for a "performance review" too. While they were being told by HR "Surprise, you're fired", the other supervisors packed their personal belongings upand did not allow them to return past the security guard to say goodbyes, even to a pregnant wife.

I ALSO got laid off from that same employer when there was an unannounced business loss of one of our major clients. I was told to go to H.R. for some odd thing I'd not heard before and got the same blind side.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

Shouldn't you be somewhere questioning your own self image?

I am speaking from experience on all sides.

If he deals with customer files and contacts that he only keeps on a work computer and/or cell, they will immediately take them from him and change his passwords. Even if one states you are not moving to a competiting firm in the same industry, an employer will assume that is possible and not take any chances.

I have been an employee (who did not sign a no-compete clause) moving to a competitor. Was locked out overnight. Had I not saved my Outlook contacts to Plaxo on a consistent basis, I'd have lost every phone and email address I knew. I was not stealing clients and took nothing more than my contact list, which was legal and allowed.
But that witch tried to.

I've had to escort employees to HR for a "performance review" too. While they were being told by HR "Surprise, you're fired", the other supervisors packed their personal belongings upand did not allow them to return past the security guard to say goodbyes, even to a pregnant wife.

I ALSO got laid off from that same employer when there was an unannounced business loss of one of our major clients. I was told to go to H.R. for some odd thing I'd not heard before and got the same blind side.

dayum, business is tough in the states.
scenes like that are unheard of here, i mean, in the corporate world... not the under-the-table businesses which make more than half the economy.

thanks to some socialist reforms a few decades ago, by law i get:

1 month off a yer (vacation), double salary on july and december, plus 10% of the company´s profit shared among all employees at the end of the fiscal year, paid health/dental insurance and my severance package should be around 5-months of salary, considering I´ve worked about 5 years here. and after 6 months, i cannot be fired, unless authorized by the gvmt labor dept.
only drawback is the workweek is 48 hours.

its very expensive to hire/fire people around here (thus, underemployment is widespread), but once you are in the "formal" economy... labor laws are so awesome they seem absurd.

 

[bizutch]

Get your bags monkeys. We're movin'!!!!!

 

[dump]

I am speaking from experience on all sides...

This is not universal in the states. Also speaking from experience, it completely depends on the company culture and your job. I have never been walked out, but this happened regularly at a place I used to work... even to the guys that thought it wouldn't happen to them. In all my other jobs the terminations have been much more civilized.

 

[canadmos]

 

[bizutch]

This is not universal in the states. Also speaking from experience, it completely depends on the company culture and your job. I have never been walked out, but this happened regularly at a place I used to work... even to the guys that thought it wouldn't happen to them. In all my other jobs the terminations have been much more civilized.

Oh, I agree. To put the sneaky escort to HR into context, I worked at an inbound customer service call center. You got 300+ people miked up live to anything from Ford to banks and electric companies customers. One irate former employee would screw the pooch if they went all fuk fukkin fuggity fuk in the background.

The other was as a mortgage broker where I got the seizure of all files and contacts. Most owners of those companies were just used car salesmen, so I knew to expect that kind of treatment. Had they been more ont he up and up, the just as sleezy bank industry would have had a harder time making them go away.

 

[mandown]