sign me up
Feb. 27th, 2024 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cateyespecksToday I was talking with my supervisor, and she told me that in the next couple weeks, she needs to complete my annual evaluation. This isn't my anniversary, but this organization does everyone's annual evals/raises at the same time. And then once the eval is complete, she says the executive director was saying they want to offer me a 24% increase on my salary if I take this new director role at work.
Yes please!
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Work has been super busy this week. We're readying for an intake next Monday, so that's always hectic. And our in-house therapy team is planning to change their weekly schedule with the ladies, going into effect in the next couple weeks. Some of the ladies aren't happy at all, others it won't affect so much. But from an administrative point of view, it's reaping havoc on the schedule. Our admin -- who frequently brings her laptop into my office to sit, vent, and work -- was going mad this afternoon trying to fit all the needed things into our house schedule for the month of March. It's a cluster fuck, and I had to encourage her to just put it aside (we were 20 mins past our departure time), so we could look at it with fresh eyes in the morning.
I spent my morning pushing a lady to tears. She's experienced significant trauma for the first 20+ years of her life, and is on the autism spectrum, so trying to encourage her to work on her finances, change her schedule, consider a future where she has increased independence, etc... is a huge undertaking to even discuss. She gets upset with me for even bringing up aspects of these themes, and has a lot of internal scripts that play in her mind, bringing her shame and anguish for accepting the help (let alone asking for it) we offer her.
I am not a perfect human (though some of them, in moments, expect me to be), but I do love this job. I am built for this job.
Yes please!
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Work has been super busy this week. We're readying for an intake next Monday, so that's always hectic. And our in-house therapy team is planning to change their weekly schedule with the ladies, going into effect in the next couple weeks. Some of the ladies aren't happy at all, others it won't affect so much. But from an administrative point of view, it's reaping havoc on the schedule. Our admin -- who frequently brings her laptop into my office to sit, vent, and work -- was going mad this afternoon trying to fit all the needed things into our house schedule for the month of March. It's a cluster fuck, and I had to encourage her to just put it aside (we were 20 mins past our departure time), so we could look at it with fresh eyes in the morning.
I spent my morning pushing a lady to tears. She's experienced significant trauma for the first 20+ years of her life, and is on the autism spectrum, so trying to encourage her to work on her finances, change her schedule, consider a future where she has increased independence, etc... is a huge undertaking to even discuss. She gets upset with me for even bringing up aspects of these themes, and has a lot of internal scripts that play in her mind, bringing her shame and anguish for accepting the help (let alone asking for it) we offer her.
I am not a perfect human (though some of them, in moments, expect me to be), but I do love this job. I am built for this job.
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Date: 2024-02-29 04:51 am (UTC)My supervisor seems to think that just getting me onto his team was a huge personal favor (it is less stressful than the team I worked for previously). And the only reason he wants me promoted this year is that it's some kind of weird feather in his cap to promote X number of people yearly, and he's decided it's my turn. Not because I'm so awesome. Meanwhile he's talking leadership into creating a new position to retain someone else who wants to leave...I don't know if it's because I'm always in clerical-adjacent jobs or what, but no supervisor has ever been enthusiastically positive.
I did have a sort-of positive supervisor three jobs ago. He encouraged me to rewrite my year-end review narrative to make myself sound more important, and he actually offered to have me train for a totally different job. NOW I know I should have taken him up on that. At the time I still thought I wanted a writing/editing job. Anyway - that's the only supervisor I've had who wasn't just reminding me of all the things I do wrong.
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Date: 2024-02-29 11:38 am (UTC)My current supervisor (who has only been with our company since late May of 2023) is pretty phenomenal and has been saying from pretty early on that people aren't making enough and we need to pay more. She's really been pushing for that. She's very supportive and really big on boosting people up and trying to find their strengths, so they can contribute in a really meaningful way that makes them shine.
At my old job, where I was for 13 years or so, I also had a good supervisor. She gave great feedback, she was supportive, but the company as a whole was a bit more rigid about pay. I tried to negotiate higher salary with every job change I did there, and was seldom met with willingness to pay me what I was worth. My supervisor's hands were tied, I guess. I only really stayed there so long because I liked my clients/coworkers, and because I didn't really know if a job change would mean higher pay. I was in a kind of position that always just didn't pay that well. But I will say that both that company and this company always tried to hire from within, and everyone was informed of when there was an opening, so we could apply (if we wanted to) before it went to the public.