Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Work. Show all posts

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Your current employer and future employer actually negotiate your notice

See title.
Has this ever happened to you?
Recently I applied for a job. I actually told my current employer that I applied for this job.
Why?
Marriage. The company I work for services the company I applied for. So there could be no surprises, I told my current employer I applied.
Since then, I was offered the position and I accepted.
So I gave my 2 week notice. My current employer said woooooaaa that will put us in a bind.
So he called my future employer and they negotiated my release, I mean my last day.
I should ask them to get together and tell me what to eat for dinner or what to wear to church on Sunday. But I won't.
I am busting my but training a person to fill in until they hire someone. So when I get to my new position I only have less than 2 weeks to train with the guy who is retiring. I am taking the position of someone who is retiring.

At first I had negative feelings toward that but since then, you know it is all good. The Good Lord got me this far so I trust in Him to keep me going.
I am very happy with this change and this new opportunity. This is the type of job I have been gunning toward if I were to stay in the transportation realm. Yes I am still in transportation but not in trucking (per se). No more "Big Trucks". Logistics describes my new career.
My point is, why complain. I will give my current employer all I got. And on Monday I will give my new employer all I got.
Plus - the mission statement for my current employer is all about the customer. Guess what? Now I am that customer!!!!!!!!