This Sh*t's Driving Me Crazy...

[hantsbear]

I have had it with this week.  Icing of the cake was packing up to leave, with a customer sat watching me on the sofa opposite.  I ask her who she is waiting for.  She points at me.  I check my list - as far as I was aware, she was due an hour earlier.  But she is adamant that she was told now.  So, I end up leaving in a foul mood twenty minutes late.  And it's pissing down with rain.

And I get home to a big brown envelope telling me that I had passed the online testing for promotion to the next grade and I have an interview and a presentation to go to on the 26th.

Irony is, I don't think I'm ready for promotion now.  I don't think I will cope at all well in the next grade, so my gut reaction is to say "thanks, but no thanks..."

Comments

Fierce Eyebrows

[beastbriskett.livejournal.com]

For heaven's sake, Hants, don't shoot yourself in the foot. You've wanted a promotion for long time, and now you want to pass?
Try to see the challenge of a higher grade as a way to focus on things you can actually do, rather than wasting your energy on worry and insecurity. You CAN do this.

Re: Fierce Eyebrows

[hantsbear.livejournal.com]

There is method in my madness. I have already gotten one promotion which got me here to the West Midlands. These promotion boards to the next grade are to two specific, very pressurised types of role - types of role that, having observed them, are not roles I feel my talents are suited to. There are other roles within the organisation that I intend pursuing, when I have the skill set that I need.

Besides, your eyes laugh too much for Fierce Eyebrows... ;)