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SO here's the deal. Ive been working for a business solutions company for 5 months at a reinsurance company. I have been doing pretty well but I have some serious issues with the company
1. I applied for a position within the reinsurance company because I was being crosstrained on many of the duties and positions withing the company. I was then told that because of a non compete agreement (our business solutions offer similar services in relation to scanning), I would probably never be able to work there.
2. I have no room for advancement. We are the only team on the west coast, much less seattle for the busienss solutions contract. There is nowhere to go up to because of this, unless I trransfer to the east coast (which I am pondering) This zaps a lot of my motivation for working there. I also think that part of the problem is that I have no long term work objectives or duties with the company. My daily work is my only work and It pisses me off.
3. My bosses liason to the reinsurance company is MIA 90% of the time and doesn't actually do a lot of the work shes supposed to. It falls on the rest of the people around her. This leads into point #2 which is theres a disaster recovery planning project that she is supposed to be working on but hasnt even started because shes been on short term medical leave for 4 months. After she came back from that she took another 3 weeks off lying about the reasons she missed work.
Example 1. She said the power was out at her hour. I actually called the puget sound power company and gave them the address and they said there had nopt been an outage in more than 2 weeks.
Example 2. She said that she was snowed in on monday yet the city she lives in recieved no snow.
I have no idea why she is still able to work here other than somehow beign a slut to one of the execs (this has happened before)
Another issue is that one of my coworkers (the one im sleeping with) wants to do the project because she will recieve a raise. She told me not to go to her boss and offer to do the project (which would really be fun and show people I can do something besides sort mail etc etc). She already makes 10k more than me and wants a raise for what? ****!
4. I can not talk to my boss about anything Im feeling because he's a total tool for the reinsurance company. He wants so bad to be part of the corporate culture (as in all the other upper 20 somethings working in the production department) I dont feel like I have an advocate where I work, someone to help me with various issues Im having in the work place. This is making me want to leave more and more now. Our program supervisor is coming out next monday through wednesday and I want to talk to her about a lot of these issues.
5. I won a raffle for basketball tickets tonight but someone in production won also (2 sets of 2 tickets) and that person elected to take all 4. That is why I'm at tipping point.
So are there offices with integrity, where people work hard and actually help the bottom line? where how much youre worth is measured in how much you contribute? where personal friendships are not the measure of your worth?
1. I applied for a position within the reinsurance company because I was being crosstrained on many of the duties and positions withing the company. I was then told that because of a non compete agreement (our business solutions offer similar services in relation to scanning), I would probably never be able to work there.
2. I have no room for advancement. We are the only team on the west coast, much less seattle for the busienss solutions contract. There is nowhere to go up to because of this, unless I trransfer to the east coast (which I am pondering) This zaps a lot of my motivation for working there. I also think that part of the problem is that I have no long term work objectives or duties with the company. My daily work is my only work and It pisses me off.
3. My bosses liason to the reinsurance company is MIA 90% of the time and doesn't actually do a lot of the work shes supposed to. It falls on the rest of the people around her. This leads into point #2 which is theres a disaster recovery planning project that she is supposed to be working on but hasnt even started because shes been on short term medical leave for 4 months. After she came back from that she took another 3 weeks off lying about the reasons she missed work.
Example 1. She said the power was out at her hour. I actually called the puget sound power company and gave them the address and they said there had nopt been an outage in more than 2 weeks.
Example 2. She said that she was snowed in on monday yet the city she lives in recieved no snow.
I have no idea why she is still able to work here other than somehow beign a slut to one of the execs (this has happened before)
Another issue is that one of my coworkers (the one im sleeping with) wants to do the project because she will recieve a raise. She told me not to go to her boss and offer to do the project (which would really be fun and show people I can do something besides sort mail etc etc). She already makes 10k more than me and wants a raise for what? ****!
4. I can not talk to my boss about anything Im feeling because he's a total tool for the reinsurance company. He wants so bad to be part of the corporate culture (as in all the other upper 20 somethings working in the production department) I dont feel like I have an advocate where I work, someone to help me with various issues Im having in the work place. This is making me want to leave more and more now. Our program supervisor is coming out next monday through wednesday and I want to talk to her about a lot of these issues.
5. I won a raffle for basketball tickets tonight but someone in production won also (2 sets of 2 tickets) and that person elected to take all 4. That is why I'm at tipping point.
So are there offices with integrity, where people work hard and actually help the bottom line? where how much youre worth is measured in how much you contribute? where personal friendships are not the measure of your worth?
NOT funny, Sava. 
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