The Next Step

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Ben leveled up!

Responsibilities +4
Authority + 7
Wages + 3
Confidence +6
Status +3
Scheduling Flexibility +10

New job Class! Ben is now:

“Lower Management” class!

As of the 4th of October, I am officially promoted. I am leaving my current department and taking a management position for a new project that Block is starting.

I won’t be running the department or anything fancy like that, but I will have a substantially larger amount of responsibility in my new position. My official title is Team Leader, and I will be directly overseeing one of four teams on the project. I will be responsible for making training and quality assurance, scheduling, part of the department’s budget (i.e. making sure we get the job done but don’t spend too much on wages in the process), and I will have some input/responsibility with regards to the department’s interview and hiring process.

The job comes with a nice pay bump, and I will likely have a much more agreeable schedule going forward. In my old job, every other Friday when we closed the payroll system I would have to pull a 12-14 hour shift and then work a full shift the following Saturday. There will be some weekends on the new project, but it will likely be fewer than half and the uber-long shifts I’ve grown accustomed to will probably not be required. Another nice bonus is that I will no longer have to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas, which was more or less a requirement back in the payroll department.

I was notified about this last week, but until yesterday it was somewhat up in the air whether I’d actually get to take the job, because my current department is chronically short of staff and the boss lady wanted to hold on to me for a couple extra weeks. But after a sit-down with said boss-lady I have an official start date, hence this post.

Unfortunately, the project itself will only last for about four months, after which I will, presumably, be returning to the payroll department. Still, with any luck I’ll have one or two portions of the CPA exam behind me by then, and I can either move up to another position within Block or leverage my enhanced credentials to find better work elsewhere.

In the meantime, however, I'm just going to be happy with where I am now. Things are going well.