This will be the final chapter of the Redundancy Diaries and, unlike the final Harry Potter movie, which end up being the final 2 movies from the franchise. I appreciate that as readers you will experience mixed feelings resulting from this news. The purely altruistic feeling of excitement for
me in finding gainful employment, and a totally selfish feeling of loss at the end of what has become a regular column of entertaining reading. Shame on you for being such an ego-centric view of life.
I was offered, and accepted a position today starting in the new year. All very exciting, I know. Being a true-blue Aussie I do not possess the ability to haggle so I dutifully accepted the salary package offered to me. I am sure the selfish readers, whom I have already identified, would say I am undervaluing my skills and experience. Well of course I am but who could afford to pay me what I know I am worth. If Westpac Chief Executive can receive a $9million bonus in a year where banks worldwide required government bail outs after creating one of the biggest stock market crashes in history and when Westpac raised interest rates almost double that of the Reserve Bank rate then what I am worth. This year I managed budgets effectively bringing projects in under budget, met all performance targets and increased the diversity of public information available about life threatening illnesses.
Oh, now I see why I was made redundant. Large companies with multi-million dollar budgets do not appreciate competence.
In that case my New Year’s resolution will to be more wasteful and deliver a lower standard of customer service. With that sort of work ethic I am sure to be promoted before the ink of the signatures on my contract is dry.
Congratulations Darren.
ReplyDeleteAs sad as I am to see the end to the redundancy diaries, I am very pleased that this means gainful employment, and therefore food and other important things for you.