Finally, something to celebrate...

MiracleMax · #1 07-20-2006, 02:59 PM

My company has a very strict policy when it comes to promotions and even just generally moving around in the company. You have to be here a year before you move out of your current position. Not just promotions, but any move. Even if you want to move to a different location but in the same position, they want you to wait a year.

Within the last year or so, they also decided that in order to move out of the TSA position (my job) you have to pass the INS-21 test. Apparently this isn't an easy task to do. There are people who have been in their position for two or three years, and have failed the test two or three times, and can't move up because of it.

Well... One of my units lost a person a couple months ago and decided they wanted me to move down there as soon as I passed my test. They even said they would wait six months if they had to in order to get me down there, as long as they were guaranteed to get me. So hey, no pressure on me to pass my test, right? Sure. My test date is August 31st.

Lately, they've been swamped down there and wanted to know if there was any way I could move down there before a year, and how soon I could take my test. So I talked to my boss, who talked to his. She said it's a great compliment that they want me so bad, but it essentially doesn't mean squat unless they can get written interest from the head honcho down there. Once they found out about that, it took about a day to get that interest down in words. So now I just have to pass my test to be able to move up. This was about a month ago, when I'd been with the company for almost five months.

Two weeks ago, my manager calls me back to ask when I can take the test. They need someone down there now and the candidates they're getting from HR suck (one woman had a cosmetolegy degree, this is an insurance company). They wanted me to take it that Friday, but there was no way. And there really wasn't much of a chance I'd be ready to take it early. Plus I still had to actually pass the dang thing.

Last Friday I left work early to get my new plates and all that jazz. I get in to work Monday morning, and a friend asked if I had talked to our other friend over the weekend because apparently they had a meeting on Friday. A meeting to say that the time frame requirement was being waved for two open positions. Not only that, but the test requirement was being waved for the two positions, including the one I was already going for.

I had an interview Tuesday. Not so much of an interview really, we just sat and talked for an hour. They had to interview all the other applicants just to be fair, and in the meantime I had to not get my hopes up, just incase.

This morning I got the call. It's mine!

But shhhh...I'm not allowed to tell anybody yet. Not until HR calls the other applicants to tell them and my boss gets the okay to send out the promotion e-mail.

So I'm walking around trying not to act excited. But considering how tired I am, it's not hard to fake.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #2 07-20-2006, 03:00 PM

phoenixx · #3 07-20-2006, 03:05 PM

Congratulations. I'm exhausted just reading that process.

**theworm**[$] · #4 07-20-2006, 03:06 PM

Woo Hoo!
Congrats, Max!
That's fabulous!!!

**lynnzop**[$] · #5 07-20-2006, 03:35 PM

So that semi-squealing I did when you called should have been shushed?

I'm so proud. Dan called, I told him the news, and he's so proud. We're both just beaming for you! I told my co-workers, and THEY are proud of you too.

So do you ever have to take the test or is that permanently waived?

MiracleMax · #6 07-20-2006, 03:39 PM

I still have to take the test. We get money when we pass it and get a designation once we pass all three.

My boss just sent out the e-mail, and through the entire thing, spelled my name Bri.

**lynnzop**[$] · #7 07-20-2006, 03:42 PM

Congrats Bri

I guess it's better than Brie. Cindy would try to bake you or something.

**theworm**[$] · #8 07-20-2006, 03:44 PM

Brie - I like that!!

**amykhar** · #9 07-20-2006, 03:47 PM

Congrats

Tell him your name is spelled Max.

MiracleMax · #10 07-20-2006, 03:54 PM

Quote:

theworm said

Brie - I like that!!

Yeah, I'm Cheese Pantyhose

**lynnzop**[$] · #11 07-20-2006, 04:02 PM

Sorry kid. It could have been worse, ya know.

**thinkerlady**[$] · #12 07-20-2006, 04:44 PM

Way to go Max. Way to go. Lots of luck to you.

*emeleel* · #13 07-20-2006, 05:25 PM

Yippee for you, what's-yer-name!

**taurusmoon** · #14 07-20-2006, 05:47 PM

Congratulations!

**Joubert**[$] · #15 07-20-2006, 06:58 PM

Congrats!

Leslie2k · #16 07-20-2006, 06:59 PM

YIPPEEE congrats Bree

**slick4591**[$] · #17 07-20-2006, 08:29 PM

CONGRATS!

**pippadaisy**[$] · #18 07-20-2006, 08:49 PM

**hadassahchana**[$] · #19 07-20-2006, 11:43 PM

And I would not try to bake you, unless you had pears in port on top.

You don't, do you?

**Helen_B**[$] · #20 07-21-2006, 12:24 AM

Yay, Max. And it would have to be really good port.

**mtomm**[$] · #21 07-21-2006, 10:38 AM

Wow, that really says something about you!

cristina1 · #22 07-21-2006, 10:46 AM

Congrats!!!!!

MiracleMax · #23 07-21-2006, 10:54 AM

Ugh... It's really sad, but it's times like these when you find out who your friends are at work, and who are just coworkers. There are people not speaking to me because of all this. It doesn't really bother me, it's their problem, but it makes for a bad atmosphere around here. It's just really childish.