Ok so i got started on this because i just wanted a good old rant. No i NEED to have a rant but to someone who doesn't know me, someone who has no idea where i work and who i work for.
You see i feel stuck. i know where i want to go and i know what I'm doing at the moment to get there but there always seems to be something in the way. now don't go thinking I'm all down on myself or pessimistic cause I'm not usually its just today i feel crap.
The place i work is a large national org and employs a huge amount of admin which is where i work. now i have worked my way up literally from the bottom and jumped from secretary to PA in a few months. This was never something that i wanted to do no i wanted to do something exciting have no idea what but all i knew was that i could not sit in an office 8hrs a day and anyway school never really promoted office work it was all "you can be anything you want to be". So that's what i wanted to do - not work in an office. so imagine my surprise after many different jobs to find that i am now working in a office. Not only that but shortly after taking the temp job i found that i enjoyed it and not only that i was bloody good at it. so that's when i decided to make it my career. Although i didn't realise that you are thought so little of. i don't mean my boss gets me to do all the photocopying because he has no idea where it is (why should he, he has a PA!) that's not the problem. No i mean everyone just assumes that because your working in admin you don't really have a brain and you sure as hell do not have any ideas that could work and be a benefit for the org - oh and did i mention I'm blonde that was certainly the nail in my coffin i am officially brainless: blonde and i work in admin im buggered.
You see i want to get on and make a good career i really do and i want to do it in the industry that i am good at and enjoy but in the org i work in that's not a possibility. i seem to have got as far as i can. So i thought that there needs to be a structure for admin professionals in order to move up within the org if one chooses to do so and thus retaining staff (bit of a problem staff retention) along with lots of other suggestions like actually regulating and implementing some sort of structure as well as some long term ideas. I wrote a long well thought out and researched letter full of suggestions and ideas - every idea i have, what do i get today? nothing, nada. I ask what i can do to move up, the question is not even addressed!
The person the letter was sent to has spoken to someone who says the things i suggested are already in place - er hello its not, why would i even waste my time in thinking of ideas already in place (oh yes i forgot im in admin and im blonde so i have no brains) - but then it wasn't her idea was it. I wouldnt mind but some ideas are only found in more corporate sectors and have not been applied to the sector i work in they would literally be setting a bench mark. they bang on about being more "business like" but my god i really dont think they have a clue.
What can i do? I guess im going to have to sit back and watch her implement everything that i suggested in my letter.
Unless i can think of something?????????
ugh. this def deserves a good rant!
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