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Dec. 22nd, 2005 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusToday, the area manager at the office where I'm based at the moment basically offered me the currently-vacant team manager's job if I wanted it. While I'm flattered at the prospect of being offered what she tells me is a £10K a year raise on my current salary on a plate (and apparently not much competition for it, since she said they've had no applications for the job from anyone who's actually appointable), she couldn't understand why I just started laughing when she said it.
Why on earth would I want to saddle myself with that? It'd take substantially more money than that before I'd think about it, but I'd be walking into it with my eyes open and for a limited period because I was using it to climb the corporate ladder. I'd rather hang onto my nice new relatively stress-free job for a while, where I can just go 'this needs doing' and walk off, knowing it's not ultimately my arse on the line if it doesn't get done.
Her parting shot? "Don't knock it till you've tried it." Yeah, right. I saw my previous manager get carted off in an ambulance when he had his second heart attack, dearie, you don't have to tell me anything...
Why on earth would I want to saddle myself with that? It'd take substantially more money than that before I'd think about it, but I'd be walking into it with my eyes open and for a limited period because I was using it to climb the corporate ladder. I'd rather hang onto my nice new relatively stress-free job for a while, where I can just go 'this needs doing' and walk off, knowing it's not ultimately my arse on the line if it doesn't get done.
Her parting shot? "Don't knock it till you've tried it." Yeah, right. I saw my previous manager get carted off in an ambulance when he had his second heart attack, dearie, you don't have to tell me anything...
