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    Be afraid, be very afraid: Horse got promoted

    By some freaking miracle or astounding clerical error I got promoted today

    I get a new office and 4 frighteningly youthful, able and over qualified staff. I've been told I've being sent in to "correct the drift" and get "a hard edge back" to their work.

    Is the management completely raving mad? I'll have outsourced all the hard work within weeks

    This promotion is probably the end of the line for me in terms of career advancement. I can't really expect to get above this level. But I can stay at this level, doing a variety of interesting jobs over time, for the rest of my career and retire with honour. Its a very respectable level.

    That's kind of spooky. I'm only 39.

    Only 25 years till retirement
    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?
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    Re: Be afraid, be very afraid: Horse got promoted

    Congrats

    Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
    I get a new office and 4 frighteningly youthful, able and over qualified staff.
    Including female assistants?
    Blah

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    • #3
      Re: Be afraid, be very afraid: Horse got promoted

      Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


      This promotion is probably the end of the line for me in terms of career advancement. I can't really expect to get above this level. But I can stay at this level, doing a variety of interesting jobs over time, for the rest of my career and retire with honour. Its a very respectable level.
      Until you start going backwards as the young and overqualified staff rise above you.
      Hold my girlfriend while I kiss your skis.

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      • #4
        someone saw this forum, noticed AH's status and said: "hey, he is a deity, we should promote him!". Haha, how far they are from the truth...
        I watched you fall. I think I pushed.

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        • #5
          Congrats AH.
          The most positive aspect of outsourcing is that you learn the true cost of doing that service. This allows you to write a business case for bringing the service back in-house.
          It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
          RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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          • #6
            I see those cushy government jobs are all they're cracked up to be...
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            • #7
              Re: Re: Be afraid, be very afraid: Horse got promoted

              Originally posted by BeBro


              Including female assistants?
              Female "colleagues" if you please. And all with endless letters after their name like MA and PhD and university medallist.

              Aaargh!
              Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

              Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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              • #8
                I've been told I've being sent in to "correct the drift" and get "a hard edge back" to their work.



                Well, congratulations to you. Heaven help the rest of the world.
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by DanS
                  Heaven help the rest of the world.
                  Its funny you should mention that
                  Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                  Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                  • #10
                    Re: Be afraid, be very afraid: Horse got promoted

                    Originally posted by Alexander's Horse

                    This promotion is probably the end of the line for me in terms of career advancement.
                    This is an evil trap. The guy who will succeed in putting under control 4 frighteningly youthful, able, ambitious and over qualified staff will certainly draw the attention of top managers bothered by 40 frighteningly youthful, able, vociferously ambitious and over qualified staff.

                    The years ahead will be anything but quiet.

                    Congratulations anyway :
                    Statistical anomaly.
                    The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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                    • #11
                      Female "colleagues" if you please. And all with endless letters after their name like MA and PhD and university medallist.

                      Aaargh!
                      So they're too educated to be impressed by you.
                      American by birth, smarter than the average tropical fruit by the grace of Me. -me
                      I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
                      Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
                      XGalaga.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Re: Be afraid, be very afraid: Horse got promoted

                        Originally posted by DAVOUT


                        This is an evil trap. The guy who will succeed in putting under control 4 frighteningly youthful, able, ambitious and over qualified staff will certainly draw the attention of top managers bothered by 40 frighteningly youthful, able, vociferously ambitious and over qualified staff.
                        Yes - a mortal danger. The trick then is to do your job well - but not too well
                        Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                        Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                        • #13
                          Sometimes they also promote those they do not want in their sections....

                          Blah

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by geeslaka

                            So they're too educated to be impressed by you.
                            Absolutely - everyone is over qualified these days. Its a function of competition.
                            Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                            Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                            • #15
                              Congratulations.

                              Just remember - it's Mrs Horse's job to spend the salary increase.
                              Never give an AI an even break.

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