Message #3205

[andrea843]

LIZ! My heart goes out to you! And I too am about to get blasted for my reply.



Do we as admins have to hide ourselves? Sometimes. Sometimes being the best and the brightest is not what others want to see. Sometimes, being smart and capable, is not what others want to see. Sometimes they just want what they want, a subservient,stereotypical Admin, one who does not complain, one who does not excel and one who exists only to serve the whims of their "Betters".



I have come to a point in my career where I do not hide, what I am, how smart I am, or what Im capable of doing.  Sometimes it backfires.  sometimes it intimidates both coworkers and employers alike (:chuckle: try working with people who now know you are the "Woman who runs that website for admins" )



The point of all this? I agree with other posters who said this job was not a good fit.  Liz, you are one of the smartest people I know in lots of areas.  Part of what you faced WAS cultural.  I speak from direct experience having worked for a german owned company that was trying VERY hard to do business in the US without adopting an "american" mindset towards employees.



The thing that bothers me most though, is the fact that your boss (okay former boss) indicates that this is the "second time" this has occured in two weeks.  I wonder when the sales team got the idea that they indeed are running the show, making decisions about whom to hire and fire? let me tell you where they got it, from a boss who hasnt the backbone to stand up to them.



This company hired you, spent the money to send you to germany for training, and is willing to do away with you so quickly? OVer a litany of whining charges, that really have very little to do with whether you can, in fact, do the job?



You're better off without em Liz, and while that doesnt change the hurt, or the devastation of being out of work, consider where you would have been in a month or two, when you relied on that boss to back you up?



Fortunately you're getting a good reference from these bozo's consider that a blessing and go out there try again,  take no prisoners!



also take some saged words to heart:



"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."





~ Edwin Louis Cole ~