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Another job related thread.

I'm at my last nerve with my supervisor. A bit of history:

He started at the firm about a month after me. Same position, same role, the lot. Last year a supervisor position came up and I showed my interest which HR acknowledged. Shortly after that I left the country on a holiday I had booked for months and when I came back, I was told he also applied for the position and got it. I wasn't even given an interview. Now I know 100% for sure that I could've done his job a million times better than him, but this isn't the topic of this thread.

I also discovered recently that he was seeing one of the HR girls. I don't think these two are related, but it wouldn't surprise me.

We've since had a new manager start who is a proper *****, the real deal. Him and said supervisor have managed to drive staff morale so far into the ground that most of us are on the verge of leaving. The only reason I'm still here is because the perks are good, but I absolutely hate coming to work with every fibre of my existence.

These two have taken away all our comfy chairs (keeping in mind that we do 12 hours shifts in this office, nights and days), our large fridge has been replaced with a small one and they're looking in to removing our internet access too.

This morning I came in as usual and neither of them even bothered to greet me. I thought I'd see how long this went on for and it wasn't before midday that one of them came in and said hello, only to give me a load of work (our offices are right next to each other).

I'm also part of a two man shift, but have been running the show solo for the last four months or so. We have been provided with phones which allow us to track jobs, close jobs and update statuses on them. Mine hasn't worked for over two months now, a fact I have quite well documented via emails. I am unable to complete any works and any effort to get them to assist with this might as well be talking to a wall.

The main parts of this are:

I like the company as the perks are great.
I could do the job a million times better than him, with my eyes closed.
I could put together a presentation (which I've already started drafting) to put forward to the upper management to make a case for promotion. I know for a fact that this will blow them out the water as they're used to people doing the bare minimum to get by.
I would like to go back to a mon-fri job but then I'd lose the perks and have to start again. There is some considerable room for improvement in this firm and I could be the one to bring it.

So what do I do? Do I just sit back and let it slide? Do I kick up a stink and annoy loads of people in the process (who admittedly all deserve it) and potentially force myself to look for something new? Do I put the presentation forward to upper management and see what they say?

Or do I just look for something else and scrap this?



Don't know what to do, but to say I'm unhappy in my current role would be an understatement. I loathe going to work.
 
Your presentation, is this to get the same job your supervisor is doing (effectively having two supervisors) or are you trying to say to them, sack this guy he's rubbish, employ me instead?

What is your job?
 
I don't know how he got a manager's job although the word on the streets is that it's a who-you-know sort of deal.

The presentation would be more to show them how I could improve things. I'm not after the guy's job, in fact in an ideal world I'd want them to create a new role which would involve auditing all the buildings across our portfolio. This is a very new firm in this industry (the firm is BTFS, a new-ish subsidiary of BT) and I have a decade of experience which could really bring tons of optimization and cost cutting to the table, not to mention staff training and boost staff morale.

The role I'm currently in is a mechanical shift engineer. I maintain all the HVAC in BT's headquarters.
 
Diddums said:
He started at the firm about a month after me. Same position, same role, the lot. Last year a supervisor position came up and I showed my interest which HR acknowledged. Shortly after that I left the country on a holiday I had booked for months and when I came back, I was told he also applied for the position and got it. I wasn't even given an interview. Now I know 100% for sure that I could've done his job a million times better than him, but this isn't the topic of this thread.
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That would seem to be related - i.e. if you were in the supervisor role perhaps you'd have also applied for the manager role when that came up rather than this ***** outsider... or perhaps you'd be better placed to influence things.

Why didn't they give you any feedback? I'd seriously follow that up - you've applied for an internal position and heard nothing back until you came back from holiday and someone else had been given the job? There must be a manager you can arrange a meeting with to sit down and discuss your future in the company as you're obviously not happy - one of the reasons for the meeting could be for feedback on your application... you can make it a positive thing, you want to progress etc.. but you can also highlight some things you think need to change too or areas you think you can make a difference... either way you probably want to push for a new role or for a significant change in your current one.
 
First thing I'd do if ask the seniors HR what opportunities are available as you're 'hungry' - see what they say.

Edit - also, I'd advise keeping some aspects of this private... you never know, a colleague of yours might browse OCUK.
 
It sounds like typical dog eats dog scenario on both your superiors side and your side, everyone thinks they know best and want all the thunder, and pay.

Personally it would drive me insane working with prats like that. I can't say I have a solution though, maybe start searching for a new job, no harm in that, they don't have to know.
 
I spoke to two recruiters today and both said the market is full of work, so I should be able to find something else fairly quickly. I'm nkt too keen on the idea of following up the last internal application in case they think I'm trying to start something, but I think I could cause a right mess if I wanted to. The fact that the supervisor's been seeing a chick from HR only puts me in a stronger position from that point of view but that's not the route I want to go down.

I've no issues with them seeing this, there's no way the company can do any more harm than it already has.

That said, I'm going to put a presentation together and go for it. It's not like I've got anything to lose and knowing that there's loads of work out there means I've got options if it doesn't go my way.

The thing is I've been doing this for almost a decade and I'm bored of it. I look at older engineers and shudder to think of myself doing this job at that age. I'm in the fortunate position of being ahead of these people, miles ahead in fact, in terms of experience in this industry. My supervisor is my age and the manager is a year younger than me.

I've spoken to a company which is huge in this industry, SFG20 for those who care, and they've set up a demo for me to use in my presentation.

Now all I need to do is the rest, and put it forward. What they decide to do is down to them, but whatever happens, Iwon't be asking what if.

Screw it. I'm gonna go for it. Bypass all these people I work with and go straight for the jugular. This could get exciting.
 
Same BS with my brother in law, he works at Apple & they keep holding a promotion over his head, but always hire others... He shadows/trains, but no hiring, he might not have the skill set they want, but they never tell him that if that is it (maybe they are just jerks) & they have done this 3 times... They even told him to tell my sister one time, I thought Apple was one of the better places to work...
 
Also, redact any commercially sensitive information from the presentation and take it along to your next interview to show people what you're capable of. :)
 
No, which in hindsight was a silly thing to do. This presentation is gonna be awesome. I'm probably going to have to slim it down a bit because it's getting a bit chubby and the last thing I need is for them to lose interest.
 
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