What do you do when...
 

The money bucket is nowhere near where you want it to be, but the shit bucket is currently overflowing?

Suck it up, man up and get on with it?

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Is the correct answer whilst sharpening up the CV and rubbing the networking/linkedin genie.

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Can't mate. I left a company after 3ish years in two parts of the business to a new one, did a year and a half before moving here, year and half with the company here (which was the same as the first), before coming to this place, where I've been a year and a half.

Need to stay at another company for a decent period of time (I was hoping this place would be the one), not sure it's that fantastic at the moment for a number of reasons...money, internal bullshit, internal battles etc.

Very frustrating.

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Why? Do you believe that other employers are looking for someone who is a keeper?

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Because I don't want to be a hypocrite...

More seriously, I want to, I want to stay somewhere and develop a bit more. This place should in theory give me that kind of opportunity. But in an invoice driven environment the other softer shit gets brushed aside way too easily.

I can't, at the moment, afford to get a part-time degree underway to change this, but once my rent savings are at the right level prior to July I will be looking at this as the first steps I suppose.

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if it was only ever the money bucket that filled up in this place there wouldn't even be a saying about the shit bucket.

pretty much suck it up and look for other opportunities.

If there is one place in the world people can get away with job hopping its here, hell for 90% of the population looking for another job every 18 months is virtually their full time profession

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Fair comment.

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Did someone put your stapler in jelly again, Scamp?

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I wouldn’t have thought, at your age and in this part of the world, staying in a job for 2 years would be considered a short period of time. So, you’ve been at the current place 18 months, hold tight for another 3 months whilst doing some networking and considering what to do next (i.e. anther recruitment firm or in-company recruitment or something different?), in 3 months start seriously job hunting. Likely that’ll take circa 3 months for you to find a few things, get applications in, go through the interview process etc. You work your noticed period at the current place (30/60 days?), and you’re at 2+ years.

In the meantime any point in having a frank conversation with your boss about the current situation, and what works and doesn’t work?

Also, are you sure the grass is going to be greener on the other side? Very often it isn’t, and the devil you know can be better than the devil you don’t?

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Not quite. Trying to raise our invoice value in general, the trade off being used is cutting the value of invoices in one country - which just so happens to be my best country and only I work there and it made the majority of my revenue last year. Seems fair....

Reasonable time scales, interesting.

He's kind of the problem, in a way, but that sounds a bit weak, he's not a problem, just the way he does some things sometimes and the way the whole ship is run is very frustrating. Just a few things in the last few weeks have made me wonder why I bother, trying to rake piss uphill is how it feels.

Grass is rarely ever greener, that's why I think it's suck it up and grab your bollocks time.

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If this change in policy is going to directly affect your ability to earn then do the sums, look at last year, apply the new procedure and show what difference it’d have on your income. Then do the same thing forecasting ahead for 2014 current system v’s new system. Take it to your boss and explain your concern. Most importantly though, in my opinion, suggest a solution or two to put on the table rather than expecting him to do it for you.

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Agreed. No point whining without a suggestion.

My suggestion yesterday was that we didn't do it. We ask for better fee internally and don't discuss lowering India. At worst we keep it up our sleeve to then offer later when they unanimously reject what we propose.

The point being made is that the revenue lost from invoices to India will be made up by invoices elsewhere. My point is that India was nearly 40% of my revenue, the rest of the world was spread out across Middle East, CIS etc. The argument is that both sets will change by 19-20% minimum, India down, others up. Theoretically that means I'll be better off 10ish% of the time (if that makes sense). However, it is the next in a few things that have happened recently where my earnings / my potential are roundly ignored in favour of the boss.

It's just ****ing wank if I'm honest, I hate being the whiny **** in the office and I feel a bit like that at the moment. I earned more in my first job in Dubai than I did last year. I may as well go and sit in a big company, take a better basic, no bonus and be better off all round.


Proper throw everything in the air, shout "**** this shit" and walk out moment coming up in my mind. Time for a burner.

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It's close to the weekend so make sure you have some good things planned, with both Mrs Scamp and your mates so you can blow off some steam and see some positives.

BTW it's ARTE on Friday and if you are free come and say hi. Good things in stock and I'll be on my on most of the day so happy to listen to you and feed you chutney. ;)

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Got the Sister arriving at midnight tonight, so this weekend is brunch and redfest, otherwise ARTE would have been on the list! It's always on the wrong weekend for me but appreciate the offer.

Gotta get through today unscathed and I'm off tomorrow and two days off next week, that'll definitely help. :thumbup:

Fingers crossed I'll come back less moany and get on with some shit!

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The sums would suggest that he will be 4% better off financially, so it would be hard to argue that the change is detrimental. Maybe my maths is off though :lol:

edit to say that perhaps the driving force for the change is coming from the other recruiters who may feel that you have getting something more than them until now.

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You're close, playing with numbers it is a 1.9% increase on average invoice if I recalculated all invoices.

The frustrating bit is that it's where I've been most successful, 38% of my invoices generated 56% of total revenue. It's an absolute gold mine and I see absolutely no reason to offer it up so easily.

Your edit is probably on the money. There's only two of us doing it and the other is more senior, holds the cards and has the final say. I seem to give a fair chunk more than I get. I stand to gain 1.9%, he will gain 19-20%.

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I doubt there is much you can do, so either you will have to accept it or silently seethe to yourself at work. Unless your contract has some clearly defined bonus scheme, which they are now in breach of.

Anyhow in this situation I would probably accept it and not let it affect my attitude, but at the same time be planning my exit.
You are probably well placed to get another job easily, and judging by the amount of calls I am getting now the market is rising.

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Scamp - life lesson from Millhouse here. Say yes to them, and carry on doing as you were/ want to do -- fight the argument when it needs fighting, you are arguing about a theory now. :D

In every job I have done, I have pretty much worked around 30-50% of my time outside of my department/ department's strategy. There comes a time when they give up trying to stop this.

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I think you're right mate. Just had another classic.

Me; they've just said they want to do something that I'm not sure they can.
Boss; just ignore it, say OK and answer the next question.
Someone else more senior: Err, Scamp, you need to re-think that, they can't just do it, why aren't you communicating with 'Boss'?

How to look like a **** in two easy steps.

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Does doing this affect how much they pay you though?

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sometimes - I did miss a promotion once (got it the next year). But that is short-term stuff, you need to think long-term and over the long-term definitely not.

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Or get rid of you.

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only if you play a bad political game.

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If you're playing substantially outside the dept's game, you need significant support at a level (or levels) about the dept. In my experience even that doesn't help often.

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I'm glad I'm not in your line of work - when I cannot even begin to understand a simple three-line conversation............

Anyway - there is always someone worse off than you - and at the moment, that's me. I have just had the biggest shafting of my career. That's 35 years...... :frown:

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Sounds about right - jump before you are pushed. Always have a plan B in this part of the world ;)

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Must've been a big shaft. Sorry to hear about that. Unfortunately, as I've witnessed at close hand, shit happens at all levels. Can you give us the bare bones?