My wife recently applied for a promotion, because no one thought of her. I've seen her at work, and I can at least compare her to the other people in her office.
She rocks!
They turned her down, saying that they'd redefined the position. What they want is a PR guy that's tech savvy, instead of an editor. What this means is that the actual editors will have more work.
Oh, and they (the head honchoes) will be "looking at overinflated titles."
The fine people at this company froze raises for people with salaries under 50 grand a year a few years back, holding that in place until well after Folio reported that salaries were going up. They've continually lost people/fired them and refuse to make up lost ground.
The publisher/company calls editors of the magazines "a drain on profit," similar to the janitorial staff, only worse. The workload has increased by something close to 300% from what it started as. Originally they (the owning company) claimed that they wouldn't alter "corporate culture" and then went about mucking with every last damn element thereof (when was the last Christmas party, I wonder?).
And now they want to strip the editors of one of the few things they might have a little pride in.
The current President of the company once said something that has kept us from losing our sanity, "it looks good on a resume."
Now it won't even do that.
Congratulations on wasting about 10 years of your life.
Worse, under our current circumstances we can't move. My wife can't get a new job elsewhere. We're stuck.
There is a word that rhymes, which I feel about sums it up:
Duck.
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I've had the job searches going on and off ever since I started working here. The only local job ad fitting my abilities that Monster turned up this week was... the one I got turned down for.
The Tech Center in Denver is actually on the south side. At rush hour, driving those 60-70 miles takes longer than I can do. And of course, we can't move closer because custody law is idiotic. Oh yes, and remember that we only have one car. (Though for enough money, that could change.)
As for writing samples, you can find one here: http://www.windowsitpro.com/SQLServer/Article/ArticleID/44352/44352.html (well, if you were a subscriber, you could). If I were in charge, I'd unlock that article. Maybe I will anyway...
Hey cool, I hadn't noticed the comments before. I DO rock! ;-)
Dangit; the URL got cut off. The missing A goes at the front of:
Article/ArticleID/44352/44352.html
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