Come on brotha and sista's lets show our strength for CCR!

How many people report to you - if any ?
None directly, we work in teams so I'm still senior to many and can boss them around :)

How long have you been with the company ?
5 years

Did you have a dept / personal sales ( revenue ) budget - i.e performance target ?
Yes, the department target was missed but I still did far better than most others

How was your dept's overall performance evaluated ? Based upon what measures ?
Purely financial

What were your personal performance indicators when you had your annual review ?
My annual review went very well but that was with the previous management team.
The performance indicators as far as I can remember;

Account management - They were very pleased with

Sales - Below target but I was credited with doing fantasticaly well given circumstances affecting my department
 
OK, I'm starting to get a more positive outlook on this situation now.

1) I'm working for a sinking company and they're actually paying for me to leave; that's far better than going down with the Titanic without warning

2) I needed to remove myself from my comfort zone anyway for my own mental health. I'd rather I wasn't pushed but I may not have been motivated enough to change if I hadn't

3) I have more talents than my current job requires, my future career will almost certainly benefit from any change in path

That doesn't mean I'm not scared still but sometimes fear is a good thing, it's another bringer of change just like anger

Sorry for all the self pity, I just felt like I was drowning for a little bit, I think I have more of a handle of the situation now :)
 
Ahhh positive thats more like it. Now you have opened the door for positive things to happen to you.

Hey at least you get some advanced warning in your field. I don't know about it until I'm called to the conference room. Then I'm thrown out on the street like a dog with a securtiy escort. All so the CEO's can maintain their expensive golf memberships and make the payments on their 3 BMW's.

I've come to realize the only job security is me and I have to be ready for a change at any given moment. Once I came to terms with that I felt better.

Keep positive its for the better if the company you are currently with is going down the tubes. You're going to find something that challenges you and pays you more. You sound like you have a good skill set and experience to build from. Thats at minimum one step ahead of the others out there searching for a job.
 
Hey CCR, sorry to hear this but it may be a plus in the long run. We layed off a bunch last week, too, and we have a LOT more unaddressed redundancy (one of which could easily be me). I guess what I'm getting at is that in today's world long careers with one company are few and far between and in the end both you and your resume will likely be better for having a change in experience. In the short term, it's tough and stressful, but having seen your character (and interview skills), you will undoubtedly land in a good place.
 
CCR: Hear Your Own Music

For my forum brotha, CCR:


Hear Your Internal Music!

No one can see it. But you can feel it.
No one can hear it. But you can listen to it.
No one can touch it. But you can sense it.
No one can smell it. But you can sniff it.
No one can taste it. But you can savor it.

(Chillen)

Let this feeling wrap you deep inside

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

(Helen Keller)

CCR, find your own particular internal music BABY!........

YES! This ROCKS!..........

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Now…….lets friggen move on to the next section of this post:

Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas, old but good), which has meaning when perception is WIDE OPEN and correct:


LETS ROCK ON!............oh…..he, he :)


And the lyrics go something like this:


Carry On Wayward Son , there will be PEACE when you are done........................

Lay your weary head to rest....Don't you CRY NO MORE.....

UH,,,,,,,,,uh......yea....oh....!

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Once I rose above the NOISE AND CONFUSION--JUST TO GET A glimpse BEYOND THIS ILLUSION......I WAS SOARING ever HIGHER………………………….

Though my EYES could SEE I was still was a blind man--though my MIND could THINK my MIND was still a mad man.................

I hear the voices when I am dreaming................!

I could hear them say…..:jump1:

Carry on Wayward Son, there will be PEACE when you are done........................

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Yes.........

Masquerading as a man with a reason…….My charade is the event of the season

And, if I claim to be a wise man, it surely………..means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion…………..Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean

I set a course for winds of fortune, but……………………………………………………….I hear the voices say

Carry on, …………….you will always remember

Carry on,…………………….nothing equals the splendor

Now your life's no longer empty

Your……..rewards…….await you………

Don’t you cry no more…………no……………………!

Now, your life is no longer empty…………


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UH,,,,,,,,,uh......yea....oh....!​

YES!...........ROCK! :)

SUCK IT UP!

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HEAR your internal MUSIC BABY!--------->Helen Keller did!


She rose above the NOISE AND CONFUSION! Yes, she did!

……………………….She had a stormy sea of moving emotion and set the course of…..her fortune!


Though she was blind, she could see clearly.

Though at birth and childhood she couldn't speak, she spoke clearly.

Though she couldn't hear, she heard…perfectly.

Though she couldn't see to write, she wrote concise and wisely.

Though she couldn't see nor speak distinctly, she adapted and overcame.

(Chillen)

Helen Keller:

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.


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Hear your own internal music:

Patience and persistence have a miraculous effect on life's difficulties; hear your inner consciousness. Hear the vitality within you to give you LIFE!

(Chillen)


No matter the complication. No matter the state.......


Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content ....

(Helen Keller)


You can see and you can hear. WAKE UP! One's that are blind and cannot hear have created GREAT FEATS......

And they have less in physical capabilities then you. However, GREAT GROWTH on the INSIDE!


WHAT WRONG WITH YOU! :boxing_smiley: :boxing_smiley:


When life throws a monkey wrench into your plans, pick it up and make adjustments.............

And graduate, mate, to a brand new fate.

Time has a way of changing all that once was, into beautiful new possibilities………!

The key is to allow it to take place

We must choose our battles in life and see that none of this is possible if your biggest battle is within yourself. Let this flow within you, and warm your face and everyone will see it!




Best wishes to you!




Chillen
 
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You're a nice guy Chillen :hug2:

Hopefully I won't be worrying for long, I have a very hot lead on a job so fingers crossed I'll have a job by the end of the week
 
You're a nice guy Chillen :hug2:

Hopefully I won't be worrying for long, I have a very hot lead on a job so fingers crossed I'll have a job by the end of the week


awesome! You must have some skills if you already have leads.
Will keep fingers crossed for you.
 
You're a nice guy Chillen :hug2:

Hopefully I won't be worrying for long, I have a very hot lead on a job so fingers crossed I'll have a job by the end of the week

You welcome CCR.

And a portion I had taken out of post I just made in the COL, from Steve Pavlina:


The exact process you use to build courage isn't important.

What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground. Just as your muscles automatically atrophy from lack of use, so your courage will automatically decay in the absence of conscious conditioning.

Have courage, youngman.


Chillen
 
Well tomorrow the MD of my main competitor is taking a copy of my current contract to their HR Director to look at the restrictive covenants in my contract stopping from working for the competition. He thinks that as I'm being made redundant these covenants can't be enforced legally so assuming the HR Director thinks the same thing then I should have a job offer.

I also have an interview in an unrelated field tomorrow PM so I have prepare for that too now
 
Are there any stockbrokers on here?

I have an interview to be a trainee stockbroker on Wednesday, the basic as awful but obviously there are commission opportunities and potentially a great future career.

What I was wondering is, if anyone has been a trainee broker before, how long did it take to be a senior broker and earning good money?
 
How did the interview go for today?

What exactly does it mean to be redundant, anyways? Does it mean they found that you're sort of like a "monkey in the middle" deal? Did they told you right out of the blue that you had to go? Or did they say they were hiring some outside "consultants" to review people, then told you that you had to go?
 
WOOT!!

I've been offered a job; it's with a competitor of mine so I have the added bonus that my current company will be totally pissed when they find out I'm there :D

I think I added about 5% body fat over the weekend as I've been eating out and buying the most amazing deserts

I need to go over there today to sort out the details but I'm going straight from there to the gym and starting to make up for the missed sessions from the past 3 weeks. The bonus for me is that I feel a lot more motivated to train after only being able to go a couple of times a week for a while


I just wanted to say a massive thanks to those of you who took the time to post in here. It helped a lot because as you can imagine I couldn't really tell anybody at home that I was worried as I had to be the strong one for my family, so this forum was just about the only place I could show weakness. Thanks for your time :)
 
Nice CCR good job! make sure you rub it in those twats faces!
 
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