Ardenas Barehand:
Congratulations on the (promotion?) pay raise.
No promotions (which would be required for further pay bumps) it's lateral transfers... the first is from one LoB (Line of Business) within my department to another within my department, the second is into a different department...
I strongly suspect the first is occurring because I was approved for the second. My boss has resisted for months allowing me to switch LoBs because "I can't lose one of my highly skilled agents form the bank lines"... but now that he's looking at losing me to a different department*, he caved (and did so without bothering to tell me in advance, it was late on a friday "Oh yeah, and next monday you're in training for the new LoB, your schedule should be adjusted before you head out tonight. If not, just come in at 10 on monday and I'll get it fixed ASAP"). The suspicion runs two-fold: Having me suddenly training all week before I start training for the other department means I have no time for pretraining for the other department (which I keep being told is really, really, really helpful for state licensing test) and it means if I'm frustrated by the new department (I've heard rumors about managerial fuckery) instead of quitting, I'll transfer back to the higher paying new LoB. And the new department has lull periods where agents temp "transfer" around and fill other positions, but still get their higher pay... so if he has to pay me 'top tier' pay, may as well have me in the highest paying Lob he has.
* I work in a call center, doing credit card enrollment for a handful of banks. The other department is health insurance, which has more way sway in the "we want these agents in our department, give them to us" to the extent that my boss cannot stop this transfer, while he actually runs both LoB I'm in and the one I want into.
Like, no duh. Three weeks of study versus two? No braino.
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Anything like that at my job would mean jumping into management...
Ditto. After the second transfer, if I want more pay I have to fly right and get promoted.
The only bene of my job is extreme flexibility in hours. However to get into management you have to show a willingness to work a stable schedule
and be available for odd shifts here and there. I can't handle the weird shifts, my sleep schedule (insomnia) is bad enough without suddenly working till midnight one day a week.
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And I don't have it in me (nor can I afford the equipment) to become a YouTube star.
Twenty years ago? I could have done it. These days? I'm not in touch enough, not mentally flexible enough, and I don't have the capacity to work two full time jobs and get no sleep.