Work, work, work
To answer Shels, no, no promotion or bonus. Not sure if/when/if ever that will happen. However, I did put my resume on Monster this week just to see what is out there. I love the work I do and really enjoy my job. But I am extraordinarily over-extended and rather than getting help, I’m just getting more work.
This month alone I am coordinating rollout of a new policy in 18 languages to 50,000 people in 96 countries… by mail. I am also working on development of two training modules related to those policies, each of which have to be completed and sent out to employees in January using a new training system that the company’s employees are unfamiliar with (oh, and the IT department is being outsourced the very WEEK my boss is planning to roll out our first course…). I am responsible for our worldwide employee hotline (receiving reports through online system and sending them out to the proper investigators in each location and following up to close out the cases). I am working on follow-ups to a company-wide questionnaire. I field, respond to and translate questions from our Latin American locations because I am the only Spanish speaker. On top of all that I am designing websites and file repositories for my department and each of its three composite groups and working with IT on rollout of a new software package. Then this week I get an e-mail from Big Boss asking me to work another 15 hours per week through the end of the year on yet another major project.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Big Boss. I love my job. I want to succeed, impress, do well. And I am thrilled that he recognizes that I can do more than my title. But, DAMN, I have way too much on my plate right now. Sigh… And the items above are just the big things – don’t include the daily assistance to the five attorneys in my group on various initiatives because, after all, I am a “paralegal”. Um… yeah, sounds like it, huh? I need the title and pay that go with the work I do. Believe me, I have told him. Hanging in, hanging on, hanging out.
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Oh darn, I was hopeful that at least a nice bonus would come through, but hey, there is still time….it isn’t Christmas just yet. I hope that you at the least get a very nice gift.