Proactive not reactive work ethics please
March 27th 2008 01:27
A few weeks a go I quit my job of nearly three years. I was in a managerial role and worked a long side the owner of the company and I knew that he knew that I was good at what I did. The problem was that I wasn’t rewarded for my work and I was taken advantage of. I’ve experienced similar problems before. It seems that if you’re a competent worker you’re just simply taken for granted. Employers expect more but don’t give anything in return. For me, there’s only so much of a one-sided relationship I can take. I got sick of being exploited and flogged for little reward so I got myself a new job and resigned from my old one and boy, did my boss do a total 360 or what? All of a sudden there was a new job title on offer and a $13,000 pay increase. I was in the exact same position five years a go in another job. I was treated like dirt by my boss so I resigned and then he offered me the world to make me stay. I didn’t fall for it then and I haven’t fallen for it now because at the end of the day ‘its too little, too late’. It shouldn’t take for me to resign for my peers to acknowledge my worth. It’s a reactive approach, not a proactive one and I don’t respect people who work like that.
Besides the issue of lack of reward, I was finding it difficult to work in a negative environment. Virtually everything positive I did to promote the business was trampled on by negative attitudes and feedback from the management crew and it got to the point where I realised that whatever I did it was never going to be good enough for them. My manager, the owner, said that it was human nature; tall poppy syndrome I guess, and that I needed to continue to keep pushing on. Well I got sick of it because I’m only human and I have feelings and their unrealistic expectations were making me bitter and resentful. I believe when you reach the point where you feel distain for the people you work with on a daily basis then you’re probably past the point of no return.
I was disappointed that I wasn’t able to stay in my job for longer but despite all the promises that my boss made to me about ‘everything changing’ I didn’t believe him because I knew that the problems were bigger than him and he was powerless to stop it. I didn’t want to show him up as a liar six months from now if I stayed and then hated the job and him even more, so I did what I needed to do and left.
I am hosting positive feelings about my new job and the opportunities it’ll bring me and I hope, for my sake and theirs, that they value me as a competent and dedicated employee because I would prefer not to be sitting here, writing this same story in three year’s time.
Employers reward your employees!
Besides the issue of lack of reward, I was finding it difficult to work in a negative environment. Virtually everything positive I did to promote the business was trampled on by negative attitudes and feedback from the management crew and it got to the point where I realised that whatever I did it was never going to be good enough for them. My manager, the owner, said that it was human nature; tall poppy syndrome I guess, and that I needed to continue to keep pushing on. Well I got sick of it because I’m only human and I have feelings and their unrealistic expectations were making me bitter and resentful. I believe when you reach the point where you feel distain for the people you work with on a daily basis then you’re probably past the point of no return.
I was disappointed that I wasn’t able to stay in my job for longer but despite all the promises that my boss made to me about ‘everything changing’ I didn’t believe him because I knew that the problems were bigger than him and he was powerless to stop it. I didn’t want to show him up as a liar six months from now if I stayed and then hated the job and him even more, so I did what I needed to do and left.
I am hosting positive feelings about my new job and the opportunities it’ll bring me and I hope, for my sake and theirs, that they value me as a competent and dedicated employee because I would prefer not to be sitting here, writing this same story in three year’s time.
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