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today officially marks 9 years for me with the same employer! 
I know by some standards that is not alot, but with the way some people job hop now-a-days, I think that is a huge. It is especially poingant considering 9 years ago today, I did not think I would survive 9 days, 9 weeks or even 9 months. My then boss, while very good at what he did, was a very tightly wound Type A personality.
Everything was his way or the highway. I can not even begin to count the number of times he reduced me to a teary mess at the office. Told me any number of times I was untrainable. Why would I stick around & put up with that... I don't know. What I do know is comments like that definitely f' up your psyche.
But I survived, he retired and I have had an awesome boss for the last 2 1/2 years. This boss told me earlier this week that he had my annual review paperwork & would be discussing it with my secondary boss very soon, but I should expect nothing less than a glowing review.
Even got a nice pay raise, which was a very pleasant surprise. I was expecting little (if anything) due to the current economic situation.
Got an even nicer compliment from our VP of Finance today. He told me I am the expert in the company when it comes to our import-export compliance. I don't know that I am an expert, but I most definitely the person with the best knowledge of what we need to be doing.
I know by some standards that is not alot, but with the way some people job hop now-a-days, I think that is a huge. It is especially poingant considering 9 years ago today, I did not think I would survive 9 days, 9 weeks or even 9 months. My then boss, while very good at what he did, was a very tightly wound Type A personality.
Everything was his way or the highway. I can not even begin to count the number of times he reduced me to a teary mess at the office. Told me any number of times I was untrainable. Why would I stick around & put up with that... I don't know. What I do know is comments like that definitely f' up your psyche.
But I survived, he retired and I have had an awesome boss for the last 2 1/2 years. This boss told me earlier this week that he had my annual review paperwork & would be discussing it with my secondary boss very soon, but I should expect nothing less than a glowing review.
Even got a nice pay raise, which was a very pleasant surprise. I was expecting little (if anything) due to the current economic situation.
Got an even nicer compliment from our VP of Finance today. He told me I am the expert in the company when it comes to our import-export compliance. I don't know that I am an expert, but I most definitely the person with the best knowledge of what we need to be doing.
