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Morpheus99
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 Posted: 07/28/03 - 15:24 Post subject: Sign you were more than just an employee.
What was the sign or turning point where you knew or realized you
were a little more than just a "mere" peon employee?
What was that one thing or more that changed your status.
For me it was two.
Told by my boss I was going to be doing more travel than him.
The day my T & E card was given to me.
For those scoring at home T & E means (Travel & Expense).
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jrjo
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Posted: 07/28/03 - 17:00 Post subject:
When that dang message light blinks 
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thegman
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Posted: 07/28/03 - 17:16 Post subject:
When my signature started appearing on the payroll checks.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 07/28/03 - 17:26 Post subject:
When I was courted to change jobs, and my employers made it clear they wanted me to stay on board.
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Trish
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Posted: 07/28/03 - 17:33 Post subject:
| AlaninTX wrote: | | When I was courted to change jobs, and my employers made it clear they wanted me to stay on board. |
Same here, the other position was offering 12K more. My employer matched it, plus added a 3rd weeks vacation to the deal 
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 07/28/03 - 17:37 Post subject:
| Trish wrote: | | AlaninTX wrote: | | When I was courted to change jobs, and my employers made it clear they wanted me to stay on board. |
Same here, the other position was offering 12K more. My employer matched it, plus added a 3rd weeks vacation to the deal |
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Morpheus99
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Posted: 07/28/03 - 17:40 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | When that dang message light blinks |
Oooooooo yeah VM from hell.
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elkid
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 09:04 Post subject: Re: Sign you were more than just an employee.
| Morpheus99 wrote: | | Told by my boss I was going to be doing more travel than him. |
That's a good thing?  You poor thing (unless you like road warrior status).
For me it was the opposite - I was tired of so much traveling and said so. I was able to utilize other staff to go on the road in my stead and stay home more, running things from HQ.
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robp
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 09:21 Post subject:
I was laboring away as a tool designer/CAD draftsman when I caught wind that the biggest and most talentless brown-noser in the dept. was being promoted to a manager and that I was going to be reporting to him. I walked into my current boss's office and told him that I either wanted transferred out of the dept. or I would turn in my notice because there was no way I was going to work for him. My boss went out on a limb and I got promoted to my current job, still in the same division but no longer in tooling. He had to get the HR dept. to make an exception for me because I didn't have the 4 yr degree that is normally req'd for this position and they agreed to it. A 14% increase and a ton more responsibility came with it and I've been pretty damn happy with the results so far.
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Morpheus99
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 09:31 Post subject: Re: Sign you were more than just an employee.
| elkid wrote: | | Morpheus99 wrote: | | Told by my boss I was going to be doing more travel than him. |
That's a good thing? You poor thing (unless you like road warrior status).
For me it was the opposite - I was tired of so much traveling and said so. I was able to utilize other staff to go on the road in my stead and stay home more, running things from HQ. |
Welll my boss is the Administration Manager in our building and also the Project Director of new system related software.
He's also a married man with two kids in their teen years and spent the last 5 to 6 yrs on the road, working late, and pretty much solving all the dept problems with only one other person (my mentor ) prior to my getting assigned to his area 3 yrs ago.
So he's pretty much burned out on travel, my mentor left a year ago so its now me, him. He thought this would be a good tool for me and said pretty much since I'm single the dealings of being away from family is not an issue.
Plus he know I like to trave, so its a win-win for me.
The 12 % rais earlier this year was good, but it looks like there may be another raise in store if this trip to DC bears any fruit in the nexr two weeks.
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elkid
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 09:40 Post subject: Re: Sign you were more than just an employee.
| Morpheus99 wrote: | | ...He thought this would be a good tool for me ... Plus he know I like to travel, so its a win-win for me. |
Sounds like this is a good thing for you then. Good luck, and keep up you energy levels!
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Posted: 07/29/03 - 09:40 Post subject:
When people started calling me all the time. Parents, athletes, fellow coaches, coaches from other schools...
When I think back over the past 3 years, my school would have had a tough time of running without me! I'm am also looking forward to this coming year, no AD responsibilities, and only coaching 2 sports. This is gonna be so slack.(except for the fact that I'll probably be raising 3 children by myself during the week! Ack!)
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