Yesterday was possibly my first unsettling day for me at work, since I began working there. To cut things short, over the last 6 months I’ve been promoted twice and things couldn’t be better, or so I’d thought. I’d kept it pretty quiet because I had no intentions to make a big deal of it, however I should have known better. Yesterday it was made official to me that I was to be promoted, sadly the company ‘gossip queen’ had overheard a conversation between the company director and yours truly.
Inside 10mins the whole workplace had become aware of this, and the backstabbing had begun. Friends and workers began jealously asking their bosses as to why they hadn’t been promoted. Wherever I went, I could ‘feel’ people talking about me - who knows what they were saying but it made me feel a tad uneasy as a result. Normally matters like this don’t faze me at all, but I was quite shocked at how easily people can do a U-Turn on an individual, a colleague if you will.
Most of these workers I hardly know at all, a simple "Good mornin" is all that I exchange with them on a daily basis…
My department couldn’t be more proud though, and without them I’d be nowhere. Most of them are female workers and are happy because in a few years time I’ll become their boss as the present one retires. I’ve not mentioned where I work, due to the fact that it’s a supplier to the Ministry of Defence here in the Uk, but most of the workers at our premises are female, while almost all the engineers like myself are male. Thought I’d mention that!
Each and everyday I focus on the task at hand, and let nothing get in the way of my work. Each and everyday I strive to improve on my skills as much as possible. Like most people at work, I don’t slouch around chatting away visiting the toilets every 20mins and spending 5mins in there gossiping. I push myself harder and harder till my back feels like it’s bleeding - it gives me an immense blood rush and it’s that feeling I love. During lunchtimes I go for a walk/run because I’d rather be alone, then sit in the company canteen with a bunch of nonames. I keep myself to myself and only open up to the few ladies who work in my department, because I trust them whole-heartedly.
A promotion should be an event that marks recognition towards an individual’s skill. It should be something to be proud of. In my eyes I couldn’t give a damn about it (aside from the big ass payrise) but it means very little to me to be honest. Right now, there are so many workers out there who are making such a big deal of it; it just makes me disgusted to know they even exist.
Balls to them I say! I win, you lose! FREEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!