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Date: 06 March 2007 17:53:57
Today has been busy with preparation for tomorrow's visit by my temporary boss. I think she's in for a shock when she sees the conditions I work in. They're not bad but I'm stuck in a corner with no privacy, no landline of my own and I'm stuck to a cable connection, as the customer will not allow use of their wireless network.
Tomorrow is supposed to be my annual appraisal day but, like I've said before, she doesn't know what I actually do. As I don't have a role profile I don't really know what's expected of me either. I know that people try to give me more work but I refuse to carry additional workloads without suitable recompense.
In the past I've been promised new roles in the company and more money but nothing has ever come of it. So far she has delivered on everything she's promised but that is only little things. Now we're talking about increasing my responsibilities and changing my role to match these. However I'm still not going to do the bread today and jam tomorrow thing. Its pay-up or shut up time for them now.
My old boss from Cardiff rang yesterday offering me work with him. In order to do so I'd have to bring both my customers with me in order to pay my way. One would move but the other wouldn't so that was never an option for me.
I know that my temporary boss wants me to think about taking on a Customer Service Managers role at Birmingham or Cardiff. Having seen how quiet our Cardiff office was last week I'm not sure I'd want to go back there. My ex boss did tell me that I'd make mincemeat of the new manager and could probably take over his job shortly but I'm not a lover of backstabbing office politics.
Anyway I'm not sure that being stuck in one office would suit me. I need to wander occasionally and visit people and I'm not sure that these jobs would allow that freedom. Mind you working in Cardiff would mean I'd be home every night.
I don't think FW could cope with that. Plus I'd probably fill my time with other things - church, Tearfund etc.