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New Job O'clock continued...
9 years ago
So, to keep a long story short, some internal things have been shifting around management-wise in the company I work for. The man who now finds himself as our new president is coming the Thurs after next. Originally I was hoping next Friday would be my last day in this job and I wouldn't have to care. However, thanks to my manager being a hard ass about the two week notice thing and my new job not wanting to start me mid week, I'm stuck here till the 5th and I will indeed have to deal with the new president.
All that to say, our district manager was in here this morning checking up on how the cleanup of the store is coming along. He's obviously aware that I put in my notice, so we had to do the awkward song and dance of him offering me more money to stay...and me telling him no over and over again. I did make it known that the initial pay for this new job is pretty much exactly what I make now. And I feel like if he was a smarter man, that fact alone should have told him volumes about how I feel about this job while I'm turning down his generous pay raise offerings.
I will not be bought. I have waited too long for this...
And on another (somewhat related) note, I'm going home this weekend to visit with family. Only have this and the next two weekends after that off and then I likely will be working through the weekend pretty much all the time at this new job. I say this comment is somewhat related to work because my mom suggested that for this visit, we take a trip up to Ellicott City, MD. A place I've only ever been once to attend a store meeting when I had just started with my current company.
I had maybe been with them 5-6 months when I came in one morning and my manager asked if I would drive to Ellicott City for the meeting. [Another person was supposed to have gone, but they were on vacation and I guess my store didn't plan ahead? Idk] This was long before I had a smart phone with gps and my coworker's directions were shoddy at best. I got lost along the way and ended up down in a quaint fishing village that I guess counts as Old Ellicott City.
Anyways, the point I was going for here is largely just the passage of time is such a strange thing. After talking with my mom about the weekend plans, I found myself thinking back to that morning, driving to this place I had never been before. How I had felt and the person that I was at the time. And for the briefest moment, as I stand here on the eve of opening a new chapter in my life, I look down the mineshaft of time to this young person and wonder how they would have felt knowing what the next 12 years of their life would be like.
Time passes in a blink and yet so much can happen even in such a relatively small amount of time.
Makes you wonder what the next 12 years will be like...
Do you suppose your DM was making those offers because you're one of the few competent people left that hadn't been yet driven away? XD