Pastures New?

Is it time for me to move on? Before any of you start I'm talking about professionally, nothing else. I've had quite a good run where I am now. I have been lucky enough to have worked with some of the greatest people ever. You know who you are… My problem is, I feel like I've done all I can here.

I've not managed to get to the upper echelon of the hierarchy, and if I'm honest I have little desire to do so these days, but my future feels a bit empty at the moment. I would greatly like to emphasise that I'm not unhappy at work and nor does my job or work get on my nerves, but there is only so much you can do in a call centre…

Having said that, I generally don't take calls, my team doesn't have a requirement to do so but that's not the point. There has been a change in the wind recently and that is what I don't like and why I feel a bit stuck in a hole. Management is a funny thing, people will always make decisions you might not necessarily agree with, but I really don't like what is happening at the moment.

Not that I don't like the people, I'm not saying that. I treat everyone as I would wish to be treated but it doesn't appear everyone has the same level of understanding on what that means. I have always been and will always be happy to answer any question/s anyone wants to ask me. That being said, if I answer a question and it's not what you wanted to hear is that my fault?

If I could give you the answer you were looking for then that's what I'd say wouldn't I? I'm not just going to lie and tell you something that is complete and utter tripe for no reason. If I tell you something then I've told you the answer. Simple as that. My problem is that I get a half hearted 'thanks' and the expectation of somebody going to moan about me as soon as they've left the vicinity of my desk. That's not very motivational now is it?

On top of that, I am changing the world this month and the next, I am literally going to change the way a lot of people work. It wasn't wholly my idea, someone well above me said 'I want this' so I came up with a way to make 'this' happen. When the 'this' goes in I will not only make peoples lives easier, I will actually be saving the company money, seriously, granted on the company's scale it’s not a vast amount, however when times are tough as they have been every little helps.

So as you can imagine, I know what I'm doing and everyone knows that I know what I'm doing, but for some reason that's not good enough. There are people I work with who value my opinion, experience and (not to blow my own trumpet) but talent. There are also people who know I'm good at what I do but moan, bitch and whine about me. Is it too much to ask to be treated with respect?

So, pastures new… There has been a job posted on our internal website that has really caught my eye. Something entirely different but something I have done before and enjoyed. It's more money and it’s based in the same place. So what have I got to lose?

I risk losing coming into work knowing I will be making a difference to a lot of people on an almost daily basis. I risk not working with some of my favourite people. I risk not being very good if I did go for and get this other job. I will however gain the feeling of actually being valued by more than a handful of people in an office with more than three hundred.