How's work been?

damnablebear wrote:

CEO asked me and a couple other people to learn and play some songs with him and said other coworkers at the Holiday Party this year. Had our first practice last night. Came back in to work today, so I must not be the worst?

I dunno, maybe they were looking for people to make the CEO look better on stage:P

Met with the VP this morning and I am now officially employed! My new title is Master Project Scheduler, you may call me Master.

Grats!

Yellek wrote:

Met with the VP this morning and I am now officially employed! My new title is Master Project Scheduler, you may call me Master.

:D

Congratulations! Happy New Job and New Job Feels!

Yellek wrote:

Met with the VP this morning and I am now officially employed! My new title is Master Project Scheduler, you may call me Master.

:D

Congrats Master Yellek!

Best of luck on your new job. ^_^

Yellek wrote:

Met with the VP this morning and I am now officially employed! My new title is Master Project Scheduler, you may call me Master.

:D

Congrats Mr. Manager!

bater

Yellek wrote:

Met with the VP this morning and I am now officially employed! My new title is Master Project Scheduler, you may call me Master.

:D

That's fantastic! We just brought in someone with the same title. I refuse to call him Master, though.

Just found out for the second year in a row we don't get a christmas bonus. While our team met it's goal by 103% the rest of the business unit didn't, so yay I guess.

Yellek wrote:

Met with the VP this morning and I am now officially employed! My new title is Master Project Scheduler, you may call me Master.

:D

Woo hoo!!! Yay! Congrats!

Yellek wrote:

Met with the VP this morning and I am now officially employed! My new title is Master Project Scheduler, you may call me Master.

:D

So thrilled for you! Congratulations! You deserve it!

Yellek wrote:

Met with the VP this morning and I am now officially employed! My new title is Master Project Scheduler, you may call me Master.

:D

wooo - you are now both master project scheduler and master cat wrangler

Master of everything.

Yellek wrote:

Master of everything. :)

Who's Blaster?

Last week was quite the turn around for my career. For the better as well.
Applied for sensor operator on the NH90 helicopter before and was told I was too old lol

Now, new applicants all didn't make it through the flight medical even. And suddenly there
was no one to train....well, there was this one guy, too old and all.
So now I will get the training I wanted and after my current will go fully operational again.
Meaning sailing and flying wherever they decide. Sounds good to me.
Training starts next year around April. Before that some other training which I still get for
my current position. It's going to be a busy year next year.

Sparhawk wrote:

Last week was quite the turn around for my career. For the better as well.
Applied for sensor operator on the NH90 helicopter before and was told I was too old lol

Now, new applicants all didn't make it through the flight medical even. And suddenly there
was no one to train....well, there was this one guy, too old and all.
So now I will get the training I wanted and after my current will go fully operational again.
Meaning sailing and flying wherever they decide. Sounds good to me.
Training starts next year around April. Before that some other training which I still get for
my current position. It's going to be a busy year next year. :)

Glad to hear they got their collective heads out of their rectums!

Ageism is terrible, and I'm glad they got bit on the butt by it. Very glad it worked out in your favor, and man, that's gotta feel good - not being on the back-burner anymore.

Well, now I've got to figure out whether or not I want to leave my current job. Got the other offer I was expecting, but now that it isn't a promotion (more than likely) it is not quite as appealing.

Thing is, even though they said I am getting bumped up in this current position, I'm wary until I see paperwork. And I'm finally happy with the team I'm own for the first time in a few years. Scratching that for unknowns is pretty frightening.

obirano wrote:

Well, now I've got to figure out whether or not I want to leave my current job. Got the other offer I was expecting, but now that it isn't a promotion (more than likely) it is not quite as appealing.

Thing is, even though they said I am getting bumped up in this current position, I'm wary until I see paperwork. And I'm finally happy with the team I'm own for the first time in a few years. Scratching that for unknowns is pretty frightening.

What are your motivations for leaving? What caused you to want to start interviewing? Was it simply that you were at a lower level than you felt you deserved or are there other factors involved?

Update on my lead: spoke to lab members on Monday, originally was just going to speak with the lab manager but the other two people were available, so I spoke to each of them for 10 minutes at a time. They were all very encouraging, seemed to enjoy working there (one is a former PhD student, now junior faculty). Lab's not very big, six people tops, and that's just fine with me. I'm planning to visit next Tuesday, hopefully we can get everything arranged before the holiday. I also found out this position is open-ended, it's not a typical "three years and out the door" type postdoc. They have a pretty sweet funding setup. I'm sure performance is a key factor, but there is potential to transition to junior faculty if all goes well. One thing at a time though, have to visit the place and make sure I feel comfortable there.

No word from UMass Dartmouth. I may need to poke. Supposed to have a conference call sometime soon, I imagine the holiday is complicating things. Again, one thing at a time. I have my reservations about this position, trying very hard not to discount it because I'm thinking of my grad advisor in a parental light (he wants me to go there, thinks it's the best fit, but it also brings me deeper into a research community about which I am ambivalent).

Doesn't help that my uncle, for reasons I can't explain, sent me some article about the bleakness of PhD careers these days. Rehashing the plight of the adjunct, the drying up tenure-track positions versus the glut of graduates, all the bullsh*t that can't/won't be changed unless something dramatic happens. I think the only thing keeping me going is that science is where I truly want to be, I feel like it's my calling. Of course, I could probably get just as much satisfaction being a system administrator or a software developer, along with better money and more stable hours. Getting a little too pensive now, think I need to shut up and focus on something fun instead.

kaostheory wrote:
obirano wrote:

Well, now I've got to figure out whether or not I want to leave my current job. Got the other offer I was expecting, but now that it isn't a promotion (more than likely) it is not quite as appealing.

Thing is, even though they said I am getting bumped up in this current position, I'm wary until I see paperwork. And I'm finally happy with the team I'm own for the first time in a few years. Scratching that for unknowns is pretty frightening.

What are your motivations for leaving? What caused you to want to start interviewing? Was it simply that you were at a lower level than you felt you deserved or are there other factors involved?

When I started interviewing it was as we were in he middle of a reorg and all the don't knows we're getting to me. I've been hosed by the department I work in a few times though I was hoping that would change with the leadership change.

The email I just received looks like they know I'm in the wrong thing, they think, but aren't going to be able to do anything for several months and even then they aren't sure what. The money difference isn't a huge amount, but it's not insubstantial.

After reading through that email, I'm leaning heavily towards leaving.

obirano wrote:
kaostheory wrote:
obirano wrote:

Well, now I've got to figure out whether or not I want to leave my current job. Got the other offer I was expecting, but now that it isn't a promotion (more than likely) it is not quite as appealing.

Thing is, even though they said I am getting bumped up in this current position, I'm wary until I see paperwork. And I'm finally happy with the team I'm own for the first time in a few years. Scratching that for unknowns is pretty frightening.

What are your motivations for leaving? What caused you to want to start interviewing? Was it simply that you were at a lower level than you felt you deserved or are there other factors involved?

When I started interviewing it was as we were in he middle of a reorg and all the don't knows we're getting to me. I've been hosed by the department I work in a few times though I was hoping that would change with the leadership change.

The email I just received looks like they know I'm in the wrong thing, they think, but aren't going to be able to do anything for several months and even then they aren't sure what. The money difference isn't a huge amount, but it's not insubstantial.

After reading through that email, I'm leaning heavily towards leaving.

The bolded portion says to me not to count on anything from them. Unless you tell them of the offer and they counteroffer by fixing it right away, no reason to think it'll ever happen.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking as well.

We have known for a few weeks, but it was just officially announced - my company is to recieve over €4 million funding from the EU over the next 3 years:) time to stop being nervous about being in a startup!

dibs wrote:

We have known for a few weeks, but it was just officially announced - my company is to recieve over €4 million funding from the EU over the next 3 years:) time to stop being nervous about being in a startup!

Nice! Congrats.

I thought the bosses were blowing smoke up my arse when they said the process changes I introduced had a measurable effect on the company bottom line, but I saw the profitability stats today:

Before my process overhaul - profit margin of 1.3%
After my process overhaul - profit margin of 15%

Not bad for my first time in this kind of role.

Maq wrote:

I thought the bosses were blowing smoke up my arse when they said the process changes I introduced had a measurable effect on the company bottom line, but I saw the profitability stats today:

Before my process overhaul - profit margin of 1.3%
After my process overhaul - profit margin of 15%

Not bad for my first time in this kind of role.

Holy sh*t that's awesome. Congrats.

Maq wrote:

I thought the bosses were blowing smoke up my arse when they said the process changes I introduced had a measurable effect on the company bottom line, but I saw the profitability stats today:

Before my process overhaul - profit margin of 1.3%
After my process overhaul - profit margin of 15%

Not bad for my first time in this kind of role.

So how thankful are they? You going so see any of the extra 13.7%?

That would be nice. I know some places do that. Heck, I'd take .5% of any project I work on.

Maq wrote:

I thought the bosses were blowing smoke up my arse when they said the process changes I introduced had a measurable effect on the company bottom line, but I saw the profitability stats today:

Before my process overhaul - profit margin of 1.3%
After my process overhaul - profit margin of 15%

Not bad for my first time in this kind of role.

That's more than just decent. Job well done