A while back I expressed interest in taking on more leadership roles within the company, knowing that functional management wouldn’t do anything for me I talked to my program management. Immediately I was given a list of opportunities based on the needs of the program and people I should talk.
I started talking to the right people, who eventually put my in touch with appropriate functional management (a different function that I worked for at the time). Things were moving along nicely and the functional manager was ready to give me a job. After he tried to get the right paper work in, HR stopped it all progress. I had to go through a formal interview process.
I jumped through the all the right hoops, as did the functional managers. They interviewed multiple people and at the end I was the most qualified and best fit for the job. HR sent me a formal offer! Things were finally coming up Jacko, needless to say I was excited until I looked at the salary. Using my current salary, which was already too low, they just added a little bump to it thinking I’d jump at it. Well I didn’t. I researched what the fair market salary was per shitshow standards, about 25% more than the offer, so I countered with that.
After the counter offer, days went by and I didn’t hear anything. I contacted HR to see what the status of the offer was and still didn’t hear anything. About a week later I was informed that the job offer was rescinded.
Just to make it clear: they interviewed me and others, determined I was the best fit, formally offered me the job, I countered with a market based salary, then they took away their offer. HR said that per shit show policy I did not qualify for the job based on my years of service and current leveling. One would imagine that if this was the case I wouldn’t have been interviewed in the first place but that is probably expecting too much common sense from the shit show.
Because jobs offers appear and disappear right before my eyes I throw rocks.
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