I’m not your typical corporate gal. I don’t enjoy happy hours, excessive meetings or face time. I enjoy coming to work, doing my job, and getting paid to do that job. I enjoy the occasional lunch outside the office with a few co-workers in order to discuss frustrations that shouldn’t be discussed in the office. I don’t believe in throwing people under the bus in order to make myself look better. I don’t believe in taking credit for work that I did not do. I do believe in heaping praise on people who deserve it and making sure the right people know when someone who has assisted me went above and beyond. The crabs in a barrel mentality sickens me. I realize that since I am not a corporate suck up I won’t get very far in this office. But the reality is, since I don’t have a penis I won’t get very far anyway. The fact is I have more than twelve years in this business and I like where I am. I’m well respected and I’m sought out for advice and business counsel. I can pay my mortgage and my son’s tuition. I don’t want to be in the spotlight. After all, to whom much is given much is required and I’m through climbing. I work hard and my work should speak for itself. It’s evaluation time and I just finished my self-assessment. I discussed it briefly with my manager and he made this comment to prepare me for a tiny increase, “No one on our team is going to get rich.” Well, no shit. No one ever gets rich working for someone else. I learned a long time ago not to depend on any employer to meet my needs. That mentality has reduced my stress level tremendously and at the same time allowed me to increase my salary by more than 61% in the past five years. I know where my blessings come from and who supplies my needs.
I feel better now.
3 comments:
Yeah!
I feel the same way. And folk look at me all crazy when I say that. Nothing wrong with not being a brownnoser... Me doing that says to me that there's something not right with my self-esteem and self-worth. I need what I get on merit, period.
I told a coworker the other day that the question, at the end of my life, is simple: Did I believe God to meet my needs and to promote me, or did I do a bunch of "politrickin"?
That is my ultimate "self-assessment" question on a regular basis. That's how I look at things these days. And I am happier within myself because of it.
Good post. Glad you feel better!
Whew! I'm glad you feel better! :)
Well as someone who lives in the Corporate Executive world let me say this.
Don't believe the hype. For the most part people like me are the man behind the curtain. We are nowhere near the people we appear to be.
You have no idea how luck you really are Chelle.
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