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Title: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: seahorse513 on September 06, 2013, 10:16:09 PM
 :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
I am beyond shocked!  And excited! The asst mgr and store manager reccommended me! I will be over Dept 82. That is all the merchandise on the front end and clearance for the whole store. They chose me, because i don't ask. I just do it. I don't need people looking over my shoulder,because I am reliable enough to do it on my own. Loyalty to the company, cheerful, exclusive knowledge of the store and her policies and procedures. I am still in shock! Jus waiting on the legalities that makes official.
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: Chris_ on September 06, 2013, 10:21:16 PM
Congrats :II:
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: Bad Dog on September 06, 2013, 10:23:15 PM
:yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:
I am beyond shocked!  And excited! The asst mgr and store manager reccommended me! I will be over Dept 82. That is all the merchandise on the front end and clearance for the whole store. They chose me, because i don't ask. I just do it. I don't need people looking over my shoulder,because I am reliable enough to do it on my own. Loyalty to the company, cheerful, exclusive knowledge of the store and her policies and procedures. I am still in shock! Jus waiting on the legalities that makes official.

Told Ya!!!!!  Said this would happen in your Crying in MY Beer thread.  But you pulled it off a lot quicker than I expected.  Good on Ya.

Oh, and quit worrying about Syria Bathouse Barry is going to lose the vote in Congress.
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: Big Dog on September 06, 2013, 10:24:11 PM
 :clap: :clap: :clap:

Congrats!
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: RobJohnson on September 07, 2013, 12:42:16 AM
Congratulations!
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: Lacarnut on September 07, 2013, 01:06:03 AM
Good for you. Hope they give you a big pay raise.

Got a call from a good friend of mine yesterday who retired from the state that went to work for Bass Pro Shop selling boats part time. They put him on full time cause he was doing such a good job. After working there for over a year, they offered him a 30 cents an hour raise. He gave them his 2 week notice.
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 07, 2013, 06:15:22 AM
Congrats to you, sea! :cheersmate:
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Post by: Eupher on September 07, 2013, 06:42:01 AM
Outstanding! Congratulations, and it just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished!  :-)   :thumbs:
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: vesta111 on September 07, 2013, 07:16:08 AM
Good for you. Hope they give you a big pay raise.

Got a call from a good friend of mine yesterday who retired from the state that went to work for Bass Pro Shop selling boats part time. They put him on full time cause he was doing such a good job. After working there for over a year, they offered him a 30 cents an hour raise. He gave them his 2 week notice.

GIVE ME A BREAK  that 30 cents an hour adds up to almost $576.00 a year extra with no overtime.   Who turns down that money when they also receive retirement.     Did he also get commission on the boats he sold ??

30 cents an hour for 40 hours comes out to $12.00 a week, just chuck that extra money in a 401 K and in 2 more years have a stash started.    May even get another raise in that time, another 30 cents an hour and now you are rolling.

Civilian work is much different from either State work or Federal work. It took me 20 years to hang on to a job with a 5 cent a year raise, always a race to stay ahead of the new untrained workers coming in with the change of laws in minimin wages.  After 7-8 years it seemed like the new workers started work that we a rate that we had to work 6 years before getting.

Benefits, Yup 2-3 weeks vacation paid, I retired with 5 weeks paid.    Company gave me a dollar for dollar match for the 401K up to 10%  and the low cost health insurance..

Great company, non American but not Asian.    

A small Franchise like Bass Pro must have thought  highly of your friend, few small businesses can after a year or so give a raise to a worker of 30 cents an hour unless they had bigger plans for them.

Your friend was a Jerk, walking away from a semi-new job like that.--

So what's your friend going to do now that he at his age walked away from opportunity to in perhaps another 10 years given him a great life style in his later years ??
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Sea congrats, I was about your age when I began my last job, seniority does count as do the perks.

Hang on there, the body aches and sore feet have a way of going away when you get your paycheck, vacation or company perks. 

  


Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: longview on September 07, 2013, 06:01:44 PM
Congratulations, Sea! 
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: rich_t on September 07, 2013, 06:22:27 PM
According to my daughter, that is one tough post to fill.

Good luck and congrats.
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: zeitgeist on September 07, 2013, 07:10:31 PM
Good for you.   :yahoo:
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: seahorse513 on September 07, 2013, 07:54:45 PM
Thank-you all!! I am really excited!! Unfortunately, the dept mgr I now work for, is not going to be very happy....
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: Wineslob on September 09, 2013, 09:22:18 AM
Let me know what goes on sale.




 :-)
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: DefiantSix on September 09, 2013, 09:33:57 AM
:hi5: young lady!
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Post by: Linda on September 09, 2013, 09:37:44 AM
Congrats seahorse513.
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Post by: njpines on September 09, 2013, 09:43:01 AM
Congrats Tania!  Hope this means less physical (as in lifting) work for you!
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: Scoobie on September 09, 2013, 11:41:06 AM

Congrats, Sea!


Great job!  :)
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: Dori on September 09, 2013, 11:46:37 AM
Congratulations Sea.  Have you started yet?
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: Karin on September 09, 2013, 12:19:08 PM
What good news!  Congratulations and all the best!
Title: Re: Offered a promotion at work!
Post by: IassaFTots on September 09, 2013, 12:19:59 PM
YAY!