It is obvious by now

It is obvious by now that work sucks. Not a whole bunch, I have been warned of saying work sucks by tasting bitter unemployment. But the company I work for fell way below my expectations. Case in point the email below. Companies are supposed to encourage you towards developing your career inside and outside the confines of whatever company it is. I remember once in my old job my manager refused to pay for me to attend a tax law seminar that cost way less than a hotel room per night for one of the attorneys. I thought that was bad, and I should have used that compliance hotline and reported his ass. But I didn't. Instead I let them get the better of me. It's the first signs of a bad company when they fail to encourage you in whatever that they know that they can towards career devlopment, inside and outside the realms of your current job description. It's not just the ability to pay for your education under the guise of "tuition reimbirsement." They also have to pay for the little things, seminars. association dues, and workshops.

Current company is just as guilty of this cardinal rule. I assumed they would be run better considering that they are one of the biggest companies in the USA (Forbes put them as No. 10 most earning last year) and they have been around for quite awhile. Asides from the instance below, something has been brewing for a couple of months now. Another department advertized this position that I know I would be good at. It deals with reviewing contractual service agreements, which is a lot easier to review than financial agreements that mostly deal with numbers and multiple financial tracking systems. Anyway, the position offers relcoation and is in a pay scale that is about 3 times higher than where I am. But that is not the issue. They are looking for someone with UK Bar or its equivalent, which I have and about 8 years contracting experience. I have 3 years, but this is a minor technicality as my sister says if it's not rocket science or neurosurgery it cannot be that hard, and as long as its within the parameters of what I do I can manage the transition.

I wrote the hiring manager back in December (and again last week) and asked her for an informative interview since I cannot apply for the position. (You have to be in your current position at least 12 months before you apply for another position) But she didn't respond. Why do you ask? One of the networking tenets involves conducting informational interviews with people outside your department to ascertain the positions they have, what their job entails and learn from their experience. This hiring manager is an attorney I didn't tell her I was one. But I think she is judging it from the fact that I am at a predetermined level that is 3 steps below the position. It would not be advisable to make the leap to Senior Professional, meanwhile my current manager is not even that. She is a Lead Professional. Whatever that means. Just stupid corporate mothballs. Why wouldn't you respond? Even if it is just to say, I cannot make it because I am slammed, or we've hired someone. which I know that they haven't. They prefer to relocate someone from whatever state at whatever cost and not move me from within at the low low price. Good luck filling that position because that person is coming into a company that will not pay for their seminars or workshops, and insist that they fill in that section of their performance review for additional training, with training that they obtained from their previous possibly better job.

I have said my peace. I feel like writing her an email that says soemthing in the line of, she doesn't know me. she doesn't know if I can be the assistant to the President tomorrow. You don't treat people like that when you don't know what they can be tomorrow. Life is small and it revoles around this small axis. I may not be good enough for your precious position today but tomorrow I may be worth much more than that, and then where would you be? What kind of company would have people that irresponsible in a top management position? Only the one I work for, apparently.