This post is long and boring and is about my work life so if you don't give a **** please turn away
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I suppose following on from this
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See bottom of the page for "background info" about my place of work.
Two EO's at work seperately took me aside today and informed me that one of their number (who was made EO about a year ago) has decided that she doesn't like it and wants to drop back to PO3 again (effective the end of the month).
This was on the hush hush (nobody else on the shift bar the EO's/HEO knows etc).
Both of them told me that i should apply for the job.
10 months ago i was a PO1 (lowest of the low).
Now i'm being told to go for a (low) management job.
Personally i feel kinda funny about it because to my mind the better more experience examiners should be the ones who get to be EO after a year or two of subbing up *shrug*
The thing is that due to various "factors" about half the shift is new and even tho there are more experienced examiners around they tend to be those who either don't want to be an EO or are too daft to actually be one.
The fact that ive got a degree (which seems to be a BIG BIG thing in the office ... people with even ordinary degree's have been promoted quickly - i'm aware that relatively a degree aint a big thing), that the short time ive been an examiner has been spent on the 2-10 shift (where i've been the one in the section dealing with all the shittiest of the shit stuff that needs to be dealt with urgently on behalf of the shift), and that my boss keeps on sending me as the Evening shift rep to various meetings/courses etc all works in my favour in being thought of for the position i suppose.
Even if i don't get the job i reckon i'll be at least deputising as an EO soon as the shift proper ends at the end of September (we had the option of staying on the full year which most people took) so it's not so much a choice of whether i want the job (i do) or not - i'll be EOing in some capacity someplace i reckon soon enough.
Hmmmm, just thinking out loud with the stuff so far most likely.
Anyways what i suppose this thread is about is:
"Has anyone else here been in a job where they started off in a lower "rank" and ended up in a superior position before other more "experienced" co-workers?"
"How did they deal with it (co-worker's reactions etc)?"
Advise away ...
BACKGROUND INFO
HEO - Shift Manager
EO - Team Leader
PO3 - Level 2 examiner
PO2 - Level 1 examiner
PO1 - Administrative Assistant
HEO - Off on long term sick (just had a heart triple bypass not gonna be back this year/might early retire)
3A EO - *shrug*
3B EO - Wil be resigning at the end of the month (back to PO3) not staying on past September this year
3C EO - Currently subbing up as HEO (dayshift depute EO is in this position till end of year)
3D EO - *shurg*
3F EO - *shurg*
3A D/EO - *shrug*
3B D/EO - Off on long term sick (maybe back in the next couple of weeks)
3C D/EO - Subs up alot but not staying on past September
3D D/EO - 2 part timers share this job (one of whom is 4/5 months pregnant)
3F D/EO - Subs up alot (might not be staying on past the end of September)