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Getting kinda anxious...

SadisticPeppers

SadisticPeppers

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I almost feel like my head's gonna explode from the anxiety I have in waiting. Almost two weeks ago, I got the official e-mail that my name was forwarded to the selecting officials for an interview, for a regional IT job, which would be a big promotion for anyone who got it. There were a total of 19 openings, including 7 in the higher tier positions. I kinda understand what's taking them forever though, since the agency I work for usually takes two weeks just to schedule interviews for a single opening, and I can only imagine how many need to be contacted for 19 openings.

My name was included for both position tiers, including the one with higher two pay tiers which is awesome, since if/when I get the job, I'll get a $6,000 pay raise immediately (just shy of 10%), and a year after taking the job, I'll get another $7,000 pay raise. One of the things I also found out was that the job was split into three shifts, a regular day shift (0730-1600), a swing shift (1530-2400), and the night shift (2230-0900 on a 4-day workweek). For me, I've got my heart set on the swing shift, for several reasons. For starters, in my agency, any non-overtime hours worked between 1800 and 0600 the next morning, I'd get an automatic 10% bump in my pay for those hours worked over & above any of any other raises. in my case, that would easily amount to a couple hundred dollars extra per paycheck after taxes.

Also, I'd get to sleep in and do a ton of stuff in the morning. Out of force of habit, I very rarely sleep in past 0900, even on weekends, and can count on one hand, the number of times in my life I've slept past 1000, even if I went to bed at 0500. That being said, it would give me plenty of time to do things in the morning, like any doctor's appointments I may have, and generally get that stuff out of the way without needing to take time off from work.

So I've got all my fingers and toes crossed because I've been stuck in the same pay tier for way too long now (nearly 7 years), and it's time for me to bust outta that foxhole. That, and like I mentioned in my post about growing peppers near the ocean, I can move up closer to my parental's casa, and do some peppers up there, since living where I'm currently at, I'm starting to realize more & more that it's not necessarily the best area. So even if I were to get a nicer (and bigger) apartment up there, it would only help with the pepper growing.
 
Cool.
23 years of shiftwork here, but 20 of it has been rotating 12 hr shifts.
Much nicer for me than the 3shift.
I only work 14 days a month.
A 7 day-in-a-row break every month.
Combined with my accrued vacation, that can be turned into four 2 week vacations every year.

Don't get too disapointed if you don't make it this round, but keep your hopes up.
Lots of employers of the nasty variety of management theory already know who they are going to promote, but post the positions for legal reasons, even all the way to final interviews to avoid charges of favoritism and discrimination.
 
Thanks :)

I've been on the receiving end of that before, where I get all the way to the final leg, and then the manglement selects someone they think will be the best bureaucrat, not necessarily the best employee for the job. I think this'll be a little different this time, since this promotion set are for those who want to promote into it, it's restricted to those who work in my region, and the number of openings only works in my favor.
 
It's been a while, but they finally got around to interviewing people for the positions I described above, and my coworker who also got the notification that he was also being considered and will be interviewed. I figured it'd that a while to get to this point since there was a combination of 19 total openings and a crapload of applicants (didn't stop the anxiety though). After my coworker got out of his interview, he told me that they'd like to wrap up the interviews by the end of next week, but they're giving people about a day's notice on their interview times. That's par for the course where I work, since it keeps people on their toes ;)

It also looks like once they do the interviews, the decisions will be quick as to who they want to hire, since the operations center they're creating with the people they're hiring with this posting I'm interviewing for, they want to have open & functioning by late August/early September across all three shifts. The best part is that all the positions for this center will be virtual by default, so we can be working anywhere we like, within reason.
 
Two months later, and I finally got the e-mail asking me when I wanted to be interviewed, and it's scheduled for 2PM on Monday.

Wish me luck :)
 
Thanks, guys! I had gotten an e-mail last month which alluded to the fact that the e-mail sent out saying I made it to the interview phase, which was an automated e-mail, was sent out to more people than would actually get interviewed, so I thought that was the end of it. This e-mail I got which was from a live body this time, was quite a pleasant surprise. And since I've had a very bad week, this was a much-needed uplift.
 
Yup yup :) Granted, the job I'm interviewing for is in the lower of the two pay tiers, but beggars can't be choosers. Even with this lower tier, I'd still get the first of the two pay raises I'd get if I got the upper tier job right away, since I've been technically eligible for such a raise since 2005, but my job tops off at the level immediately underneath it. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, this raise would amount to roughly $6,000 a year extra, prior to the 10% bonus pay I would get from working the 6 hours of my shift every night after 1800 hours. According to the handy-dandy spreadsheet I made to estimate my paycheck, after the $6,000 raise is factored in, the night differential pay, as the 10% bonus pay is called where I work, would amount to a little over $200 a paycheck extra after taxes, on top of the already over $250 I'd get from the raise alone.

One other thing is, they've made these positions in such a way that there's a fair amount of upward mobility built into these jobs, which my work is calling "Service Line" positions. If one of the managers in one of the service lines retires or goes elsewhere, the people who worked for him/her would get first dibbs on the job, and whoever gets it would leave a spot open for someone underneath them to get that job and so on, so it allows for a better chance at promotion. Plus, the powers that be are already guessing there's gonna be a fair amount of people leaving within the first couple years anyways because there's more than a few IT folks who are only a few years away from retirement anyway. The system they've made is built to promote from within, as opposed to what they've been doing before, wherein they bring in people from the outside, they stay a couple years, and then move on to bigger and better things, usually leaving a mess. The underlings, who may be qualified to the hilt to take over their boss' jobs, up until this new "Service Line" system, didn't have the paygrades to move up, and under the rules of my job, you have to be in a particular paygrade for a full year plus one week to be able to move into a job that has the next paygrade up. And you almost literally need a vote from Congress or the President to hopscotch a paygrade, which as you may guess, almost never happens.

So yeah, I'm excited, since once I get my foot into these Service Lines, I can only go up.
 
Those definitely suck. I've gotten quite a few in the last year, and they're never any good...
 
To be honest, I do not think mentioning "drug binges" is smart while someone is conducting a background check.

Just a thought.......
 
Also if you have mentioned anything else on any social media..ie facebook....you might better edit those as well..

I have done a few background checks


Sorry for the intrusion op..just thought I might suggest an item or two
 
I'm still waiting to hear back from the powers that be regarding the interview I had last week. Despite them telling me it would take two weeks or so, and having been through interviews for Uncle Sam before, I know they like to take their sweet time.

That being said though, I still have a measure of anxiety as to when I'll be getting the e-mail or phone call letting me know whether or not I got the job. I definitely have a good vibe that I got it, since one of the people on the panel interviewing me over the phone was a former coworker I was on good terms with, another I had assisted in some IT stuff for her inspection she did at another facility, and the third is the gentleman who is the head of the department the position falls under. He kept saying "Great answer" every time I responded to an interview question, and also liked that I had been to several facilities already, since according to him, it gave me the exposure to how they all worked due to each facility kinda liking to do its own thing.

All in all, this job is something that will definitely set me up for a while if/when I were to get it, so in the interim I guess all I can do is keep all my fingers & toes crossed, and see what happens.
 
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