Tips for working at large companies

[Ashtonian]

1. 'Except I won't get better elsewhere' - have you checked? Cos I left my very nicely paid job for an even better paid job. Sounds like you're making excuses not to leave.

2. If those jobs are so rare, why wait around? Why not just go look elsewhere. You don't have to leave this one to apply for other jobs.

3. Not sure how old you are, but you're not stuck in one job, not by the sounds of the experience and qualifications you describe. They are transferable. Go use them.

1. not al all, i have looked and between holidays and rate of pay, other jobs pale in compaison, no to mention in theory the job oppertunities are much lower elsewhere. In theory where i am now there is several different directions i could go in, but the more suitable ones are harder to come by than the main mickey take ones.

(oh yeah i have at least 2 diffrerent people who would love me to work with them who have interviewed me in the past, one of which was going to offer me the secondament and the other keeps telling me to look out for jobs, even though they still haven't come up lol )

2. I do look around at other jobs but its getting the interviews as even the process has changed to a key word scan process rather than application process like it used to be, means apart from point scoring to get the job, you have to have the right words in your application to even get the interview. And they said school work would be useless in life.....

3. I know i am not stuck per ce, i am stuck in the department sure, but not the job. all i need is that one break, and i can then progress quite quickly up the ladder, one team leader job means i could be supervisor one day, then assistant manager and so on. But need to get out, it is often said it is harder top break out of my level than any others

 

[Moomin]

1. not al all, i have looked and between holidays and rate of pay, other jobs pale in compaison, no to mention in theory the job oppertunities are much lower elsewhere. In theory where i am now there is several different directions i could go in, but the more suitable ones are harder to come by than the main mickey take ones.

(oh yeah i have at least 2 diffrerent people who would love me to work with them who have interviewed me in the past, one of which was going to offer me the secondament and the other keeps telling me to look out for jobs, even though they still haven't come up lol )

2. I do look around at other jobs but its getting the interviews as even the process has changed to a key word scan process rather than application process like it used to be, means apart from point scoring to get the job, you have to have the right words in your application to even get the interview. And they said school work would be useless in life.....

3. I know i am not stuck per ce, i am stuck in the department sure, but not the job. all i need is that one break, and i can then progress quite quickly up the ladder, one team leader job means i could be supervisor one day, then assistant manager and so on. But need to get out, it is often said it is harder top break out of my level than any others

Threaten to quit, if you are invaluable as you say they will keep you.

 

[Ashtonian]

Threaten to quit, if you are invaluable as you say they will keep you.

slight problem with that....

they will be offloading a fair amount of jobs in the coming weeks/months so might be a favour to them if i did threaten haha

not in my section but still, job losses

 

[The Cowboy]

Threaten to quit, if you are invaluable as you say they will keep you.

Yup. Many years ago I moved companies, the role I took was much lower than I was led to believe and within 2 weeks I had someone at my previous employer asking me to come back. Handed my notice in, within an hour my new employer was back offering to match the offered salary in a much better role. Just like that. And I wasn't even angling for it, so just imagine what you can achieve if you are so important and valuable...

 

[coollino]

Say 'is it Friday yet?' every single Monday.

Say 'good moaning' instead of good morning.

 

[Nil Satis Niasse Optimum]

Good thread.

I went recently from a start up with 80 employees to one of the biggest companies in the world, where in this location we have over 2000 staff alone. Found the initial weeks a bit stressful, but it's not that bad, and the money is obviously a lot better.

Think that shocked me in the first weeks was the number of people who looked miserable and didn't say hello back to you. Might just be Germans for you though.

 

[Prevenger17]

Pretty much how it is, I was asked last year to go for a regional managers role on the golf course with the sales director. But, the amount of work and time away from home is not for me personally.

My plan is to carry on working in sales for a few more years then become a consultant for a local company. I'm personally not motivated about going up the corporate ladder and prefer to have a settled homelife with my own time being for me and family.

You're such a wind up Moomin

 

[Moomin]

You're such a wind up Moomin

I want an easy life which involves me doing the least amount of work but getting a decent return.