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December 13, 2005
Ask And You Shall Receive
With all my feelings of being burnt out and jealousy of coworkers in the way of moving up the corporate ladder, I decided to circle the part on my time card asking for a review. Seems this is going to be the best way to speak my mind and let them know I want more than just the raise. I know, last week I was thankful, and I still am, however I deserve more if not for the sake of work, but for myself.
After having Fridays meeting postponed, and after being prepared to speak my mind, and having the weekend tp dwell on it, I came in Monday with all my thoughts that werw going to be verbalized.
It all happened quickly. They inercepted my frustrations, and came up to me before the meeting, before I had a chance to say my peace, and asked me if I wanted to do some training. I've wanted to get into training for a long time now and many people have told me I'd be good at it. So the frustration settled but was not forgotten. With this said, I had my review.
Weird that similar things were said about me in my review as the one I had two months ago. "You're doing a great job", "We consider you a go to guy", "you have a great work ethic", " you haven't missed a day yet".
With all those good things said, how could they pass me by? How could they do for others and not for me. I got my answer which was simple and understandable. I didn't ask.
Sometimes when you're doing your own thing, and doing it well, people think you're happy. When you do it with a smile, they think you're happy. Unless you tell them otherwise, they think your happy. They aren't mind readers after all.
So after all was said and done, I not only start preparing for a role as a trainer, I will also be in the next group of management trainees. It all goes to show you, if you don't ask, then you don't get. It also tells me my energy wasted on the past two weeks of being frustrated, were all wasted energy.
God, I should know this by now.
Posted by Des at December 13, 2005 03:34 PM
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