Barbie
05-13-2004, 02:37 PM
The grass is NOT greener on the other side.
That statement would apply to me if I had indeed left my job with Siemens to come to this job because of money.
That however, was not the case.
I left my job at Siemens because Jekyll and Hyde (as I refer to my former boss) had posted my job online becuase I didn't fit "his" image. I wasn't his kiss ass.
I left a job where I was spoiled.
7.5 hour work days. (though I worked 8.5 because there was that much to do), 100% benefits for health, drug and dental, RRSP and retirement plans 75% employer paid, 13 floater days and 3 weeks holidays for $36,000 per year.
I came to a job that works 9 hour days, 80% benefits for health, drug and dental, RRSP and retirement plans that are 50% employer paid, 15 designated days off (we work the extra 1 1/2 hours per day to build up the designtated days off), 2 weeks holidays and $41,000 per year.
By the way, after tax, my net salary is the same.
On Tuesday, I found out that Jekyll and Hyde was fired.
Aside from losing 4 sales guys in 4 months, and his personal assistant (who had been employed with the company for more than 3 years) at a total value to Siemens of $2M in clientelle, and of course there is the losing of a $9M deal due to lying and attitude problems, and his obvious lack of respect for women in general, and of course the condesending notes and emails to his staff about what he will and won't do at bonus time if there is not more "support" for him, and of course being un prepared for financial meetings with the CFO and CEO, and there are the times where he's walked out of meetings like these due to embarrassment, and then there is the recent time where the personal assistant had a long lunch with the VP for executive relations in where these 2 friends discussed at length the lack of added value to the company, and of course the time last week where Jekyll and Hyde went to a bar in Calgary to celebrate the Flames win and started a bar room brawl where the police were called in and charges were pressed (and of course more than 20 staff and 10 clients were attending)...
The VP for Exec Relations and the Director of Power Generation are lobbying for my return.
And I will do so when the time arises.
*sigh*
That statement would apply to me if I had indeed left my job with Siemens to come to this job because of money.
That however, was not the case.
I left my job at Siemens because Jekyll and Hyde (as I refer to my former boss) had posted my job online becuase I didn't fit "his" image. I wasn't his kiss ass.
I left a job where I was spoiled.
7.5 hour work days. (though I worked 8.5 because there was that much to do), 100% benefits for health, drug and dental, RRSP and retirement plans 75% employer paid, 13 floater days and 3 weeks holidays for $36,000 per year.
I came to a job that works 9 hour days, 80% benefits for health, drug and dental, RRSP and retirement plans that are 50% employer paid, 15 designated days off (we work the extra 1 1/2 hours per day to build up the designtated days off), 2 weeks holidays and $41,000 per year.
By the way, after tax, my net salary is the same.
On Tuesday, I found out that Jekyll and Hyde was fired.
Aside from losing 4 sales guys in 4 months, and his personal assistant (who had been employed with the company for more than 3 years) at a total value to Siemens of $2M in clientelle, and of course there is the losing of a $9M deal due to lying and attitude problems, and his obvious lack of respect for women in general, and of course the condesending notes and emails to his staff about what he will and won't do at bonus time if there is not more "support" for him, and of course being un prepared for financial meetings with the CFO and CEO, and there are the times where he's walked out of meetings like these due to embarrassment, and then there is the recent time where the personal assistant had a long lunch with the VP for executive relations in where these 2 friends discussed at length the lack of added value to the company, and of course the time last week where Jekyll and Hyde went to a bar in Calgary to celebrate the Flames win and started a bar room brawl where the police were called in and charges were pressed (and of course more than 20 staff and 10 clients were attending)...
The VP for Exec Relations and the Director of Power Generation are lobbying for my return.
And I will do so when the time arises.
*sigh*