Some good job opportunities can turn to shit pretty quick
(Rants)
After getting tired of being ripped off for a few years, I took a year off and did nothing but camp and dirtbike.
It was fucking great. But eventually, you gotta go back to work.
Just at the perfect time, a much better paying job presented itself, and I snatched it up.
There was a few red flags with this company, but they’re always are, so I decided to just run with that. But the red flags quickly became the norm, when my supervisor simply stopped doing his job and left town for two weeks at a time. I’m a problem solver by nature, so I just filled in every gap I came across, and kept the whole project moving.
Long story short, I got myself so involved in solving my bosses problems, I was literally doing about 40% of his job, on top of mine.
The project manager on this job could see that clear as day,and really loves me, but it fucking burnt me right out within three months.
So even though I was making minimum 2.5 X as much as I’ve made in the last few years, I just couldn’t keep it up. And the rest of the workforce was furious at management as well.
I get a call one day saying everybody else on site quit and is walking off the job, so I scramble to try and rally them up and keep them around on the promise. This supervisor Dipshit is gone, and I’ll take over his job. The alternative was my employer losing half his $700,000 contract, and being disqualified from $8 million in upcoming work.
So the owner of the company personally flies in from 600 miles away to grovel and beg me to take over my supervisors job.
I reluctantly agree, but with a few well defined boundaries and stipulations, which they agreed to.
Two days later, I’ve negotiated the return of the rest of their workforce based on these promises. But they’re already backing off on keeping this dip shit out of the way.
So everybody rightfully feels lied to, and now my position simply asks 40% more of me, for 15% more pay.
I guess a raise is a raise, but it’s just too late by now, and I’m completely fried, and can’t keep up to that demand.
So now I’m sitting here having made way more in three months, than I did in the nine months before that. But for a job position, I know doesn’t really exist.
Obviously, I’m sure that all sounds a little confusing. But it’s weird being in a position to be completely indispensable, while not actually having a proper job description you can focus on and try to excel at.
Plus, since this all began, the red flags have started stacking up at such a rate, it’s hard to put any faith in it.
It’s a weird position to be flush with cash, for a job, triggering all your red flags to get out now. Before something major is made to look like my fault, and I’m made scapegoat, or just run right into the ground doing everybody’s job for them..
Either way, tomorrow is my last day for at least three weeks. So we’ll see if it keeps going or not.