You'll Pay Me How Much! For Doing What!

Hello there blogger friendlies,

I think my keyboard is dying of old age, I tend to hang on to things to long because I'm comfortable with them instead of upgrading. Like my office chair (it is literally falling apart, but its so effing comfy), or my previous cell phone (whenever it would ring, my co-worker would let me know by saying "H your brick is ringing". In conclusion, there may be a few more typographical errors than normal in this post.

Just to touch base regarding my previous post...it is going as expected, meaning, I have yet to climb on my treadmill and move a single muscle (BUT, I did clean all the clothes off of it and I'm no longer using it as a hamper. Progress, people, progress.)

On another note, my best friend has developed a lady-friend. Don't get me wrong, I like her quite a bit, she appears to be very similar to me (brass, rude, crude, funny, etc.) and I'm pretty sure she likes me, after of course she had been reassured (numerous times) that the bestie and I were never lovers and are more like siblings. So far it has not interfered with our friendy-ship, but I expect him to devote more time to her as things progress so I have decided to start hanging out with/meeting more lady-friends. I am planning a Halloween event next month, it should be a blasty-blast. Everyone is to bring a pumpkin (to be massacred) and a white tea cup (to be read). Anyway, we had talked about getting together sometime before then, but hadn't made any plans yet. Yesterday one of the ladies invited me over tonight for some movie-fun along with a couple of the other ladies. Now, I'm sure you have noticed, aside from the procrastinating of the exercise, I am pretty AR (Anal Retentive). I enjoy planning, my desk is organized, everything in my home/ENTIRE office has a place/file/drawer/label, so last minute planning jumps my nerves, the husbinator assures me I should go instead of staying home and being anti-social. But how I ask you, HOW am I supposed to miss the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy. Holy cow-cakes batman, its McSteamy for Christ's sake. I guess I'll just have to hulu it tomorrow after work.

Speaking of work.....

To touch on a subject previously mentioned. I had asked for a raise AGAIN, going on three and a half years here people. I informed little boss-man that I would be pursuing another career/going in a different direction/leaving their asses if my request was meet yet again with a denial. I doubt he took me seriously.

A side note here, I have under taken numerous new responsibilities in the last three and a half years all with excellent outcomes, never a error and also, never a reward. In short I was fed-up!

So I had been loosely applying to new positions in my spare time. Well last week I got a call back, it was for a front desk position at a architect firm downtown, this would put it closer to my house. I happened to have a Dr. appt on Wed morning so I scheduled an interview for directly after. I arrived early, met with the office manager/accountant/hiring lady and one of the lead architects. We were lax, we bull-shitted, they loved me. I work in engineering and have previous experience working with one of their leading competitors. They wanted me, I had an offer in my inbox before I started my car.

Their offer was good, excellent considering I would be sitting on my ass at a desk solely with the purpose of sorting the daily mail, answering the phone, and booking domestic flights (I book international baby! I was beyond qualified.) They were offering me almost $4,500k more than I was making, I would be trading the five-ish different positions I was currently holding for one half assed one where I would be getting paid more.

Oh, of course I had to give the big boss-man a chance, I called him. It was a bad time, the general manager and operations manager of our shop had just quit (some of their responsibilities happened to have fallen to me) I explained I had been requesting a raise and hadn't received one for three and a half years, he acted shocked. According to him he had no knowledge of this and was thoroughly miffed. The call lasted less then five minutes, he offered $5,500k more then I was currently making. The new company couldn't negotiate any further so my decision was made.

During the call I also mentioned that he should investigate to see when a couple of the guys last received raises (I was privy to the fact that a couple of them hadn't for almost as long as me), I ended up getting most of the office a raise.

Now for the cherry on top of this Delicious cupcake. Our shop has an office manager, he is, how shall I put this, lets go with not exactly cut out for the job. But still, he makes more then I do. Once news traveled to the little boss-man and the now-not-so-evil-hag I work with they were very concerned. As the now-not-so-evil-hag does most of the accounting, she is privy to our salaries and was the one the big boss-man had charged with making the raises happen. I overheard her (she talks super fricken loud on the phone) telling the big boss-man that the salary difference between the office manager of the shop and myself was bothering her, and in order to keep me she thought they should offer me more. I was floored, I had been convinced she disliked me, I guess I was wrong, or perhaps she just didn't want to do her own filing or be in charge of some of the shit I do.

In the end, I received almost a $7,500 raise. Wooooo-who, go me!!!

Now, the big boss-man has come back to town for the week, thanks to some illegally procured and signature forged meds (more on that later, maybe) he was a little relaxed today. He has his i-tunes going, he keeps switching between the Spanish radio/way to happy station and Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight, over and over and over and, you get the point. It is most defiantly not at a volume that is work appropriate, if you were to call me I would have to YELL FOR YOU TO HEAR ME!
....I think this is my punishment for thinking about leaving.
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~*~Toodles~*~