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At last my friends, some recognition
Author: Zanf on February 22 2008 Viewed 2882 times. 48 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Not really a music blog nor about someone recognising me from some dodgy old photos that are floating about but just had to share because...
Some of you know that Ive been having a bit of a crap time with my job [2nd/3rd line IT support]: the pay was well below my market value, I wasnt happy with some of the team Im a part of and there was some bullying going on that I was trying to raise with my team leader for about 5 months but nothing was done.
It came down to that on Monday, I had to tell all this to a Service Manager [the customer] and that I couldnt work for them any longer because of it. She asked me not to quit and she would get something done.
She sent me emails and text messages over the next couple of days that almost sounded like a GF begging me not to leave [I have one that says: "I dont want to loose you"]
Now its Friday and the result is that everything I asked for/said I didnt like about the job/team has been given to me/changed and Ive been told Ive pretty much got a near £10k pay rise in the bag.
The only demand that they knocked me back on was that I asked for my own gold painted midget to accompany me on every job.
Im so relieved [going to the customer could have badly backfired] and overwhelmed that the level of appreciation that has been shown to me in the last week for what I bring to the job.
At the moment, I have an incredibly smug grin across my face. 
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Bantam
Great news! I volunteer my services as gold painted midget.
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doofgoblin
way to go!
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yghartsyrt
great man. i'm really happy for you.
good to hear you old grumpy, techty twat got some good stuff.
yay.
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p
keep on 'em about the midget. congrats.
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jdg
when you gonna fly your ass over here?
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elronhubbard
hooray for pay raise.
i just got a 3k jump in my pay for simply begging my boss to no end. nord modular here i come.
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Zanf
Well, now I'll be actually afford to come over and do more than sit in your house or work 12 hours a day in your bakery because Im skint. Now Ill have bus fare to go and hangout with Joey and Jack and only work 10 hours a day in the bakery.
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soft
well in chris!! you deserve it man.
i got a 5k pay rise in my last job by walking out one day and telling my boss he was taking the piss. when his publishing business started falling apart (about 4 hours after i left lol) he was literally BEGGING me to come back.... 4 months later i got made redundant 
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seanh
how's about floating me a little loan? you can make a stop on this side of the states too if you feel like.
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DrexonField
Congratz on the raise!!!! I'm sure you deserve it
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lowlifi
Ha, thats lame. My job gave me a gold painted midget my first day...I would keep on pressing for it. It's not that big of a deal. ;-0
Congrats on the move. If you need any CCNA help you know where to find me.
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mixedtape
Zanf said: "Well, now I'll be actually afford to come over and do more than sit in your house or work 12 hours a day in your bakery because Im skint. Now Ill have bus fare to go and hangout with Joey and Jack and only work 10 hours a day in the bakery."
Fuck yea! you can have the bed....alongside me.
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mixedtape
lowlifi said: "Ha, thats lame. My job gave me a gold painted midget my first day...I would keep on pressing for it. It's not that big of a deal. ;-0"
omf. i think i just chortled.
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bodo
Great news, happy for you.
When I quit my last job, they started to offer me more pay, all kinds of extra advantages, but I felt so great just replying 'no, thanks'
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flies
yeah, seriously, who do they have that's more deserving of a golden midget-helper than you?
good to hear that your situation is materially improving.
so what happened exactly, you told one of your customers that you were probably quitting and they somehow got the company to improve your lot? i don't get it.
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