Is This My Reward?
January 21st, 2005 by Ian
My manager took me aside this morning for a little chat. These things always worry me even though they are never bad. For some reason, if it is a meeting with my manager, I expect the worst. Well, today’s meeting had some good, but mostly bad.
The bad part is that I am being pulled back onto another team for the next 3 days. And by next 3 days, I am including the weekend. That is right, I get to work this weekend. The project is struggling to make their production date and they need some extra help.
Now I get to the one good part in all of this. I was told that there was a conversation yesterday between this team’s manager, my group manager, the director of our section, and the VP. They were discussing the status of the project and what needed to be done to meet the deadline. In the meeting it was said that I was the only person who could come in, knock out a number of issues, and get them back on track. It makes me feel really good that this was said in front of management 2,3, and 4 levels above me. I hope they remember it come time for raises.
Of course, my immediate second thought was “Is this my reward for doing good work?” Ah, I guess it won’t be that bad. It is a very rare occassion I work weekends. And in the grand scheme of things, I probably “owe” some hours. But after this, I am paid up. Of course, I’ll be overdrawn again in no time 
That was my reward at State Farm (more work) which is one reason I left that place! I kept getting “superior” performance reviews but made $500 bucks more a year than the retards sitting on their butts all day earning “average” performance. Maybe I’m the retard, but I was trying to get ahead. Of course, they can’t promote a good worker out of doing the grunt work or they have to find a replacement!
You owe hours? How is this so??