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catscradle Oct. 13th, 2004 01:18 pm)
catscradle Oct. 13th, 2004 01:18 pm)Interesting day so far. Another advisor resigned today. Even though he told them two and a half months ago he was putting his house up for sale and moving to Florida once it sold, they got pissy with him today when he turned in his two week notice. They told him to pack up his office and don't let the door slam him in the ass on the way out. He was the senior advisor for four of our programs! They didn't even want to keep him to train the other advisors on his programs. The deans were going to give his students over to the woman they just hired to replace the last advisor that walked out, but two of the other advisors stepped in and told them they were whacked out on crack. So thankfully they're spliting the work between them till a new advisor is hired.
So my boss came up to me and asked if I was interested in the job. Normally, I'd be all excited and thrilled that I finally have a chance for real advancement, but when you consider that three advisors have resigned in 7 months, you have to ask yourself why that is. Well, I know what it is, the director over them is a total ass and doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. He changed the title and duties of the advisors from Academic Advisor to Enrollment Manager - so that the college could justify paying one person to do both recruiting and advising. It's truly two totally different jobs and, quite frankly, they have a conflict of interest. Advising someone in their academic career can require an advisor to turn people away from the program if it's not a good fit. But as a recruiter, they're evaluated on how many heads they bring in. So how objective can they be when they're job is at stake unless they bring in goal?
My Boss: Well you know Mark. He's a numbers guy.
Me: No. Mark thinks he's a numbers guy. He likes to see high numbers for enrollments, but he's got no idea on how to actually read data.
My Boss: You're right. It's not really his field of expertise.
Me: No. He's got a BA in anthropology. I have a degree in that. And Philosophy. And nearly my master's now. Why don't I have his job? I'm more educated and I know how to read the data and draw information out of it.
My Boss: *laughs* You can certainly do his job.
So there you have it. Evidence that my boss thinks I'm qualified to be a director. We also went over my performance review and I have the highest rating of any employee here right now. Yes, I'm bragging. I rule. Toot, toot, toot. There, out of my system. Now I can go on being oppressed and unappreciated again.
So, I don't know. If I go for this advisor job here I'm likely to gnaw my own leg off, but it pays a lot more and it's likely I'll get the job. I"m kinda fond of my leg though. But the job market really sucks.
What to do, what to do???
So my boss came up to me and asked if I was interested in the job. Normally, I'd be all excited and thrilled that I finally have a chance for real advancement, but when you consider that three advisors have resigned in 7 months, you have to ask yourself why that is. Well, I know what it is, the director over them is a total ass and doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. He changed the title and duties of the advisors from Academic Advisor to Enrollment Manager - so that the college could justify paying one person to do both recruiting and advising. It's truly two totally different jobs and, quite frankly, they have a conflict of interest. Advising someone in their academic career can require an advisor to turn people away from the program if it's not a good fit. But as a recruiter, they're evaluated on how many heads they bring in. So how objective can they be when they're job is at stake unless they bring in goal?
My Boss: Well you know Mark. He's a numbers guy.
Me: No. Mark thinks he's a numbers guy. He likes to see high numbers for enrollments, but he's got no idea on how to actually read data.
My Boss: You're right. It's not really his field of expertise.
Me: No. He's got a BA in anthropology. I have a degree in that. And Philosophy. And nearly my master's now. Why don't I have his job? I'm more educated and I know how to read the data and draw information out of it.
My Boss: *laughs* You can certainly do his job.
So there you have it. Evidence that my boss thinks I'm qualified to be a director. We also went over my performance review and I have the highest rating of any employee here right now. Yes, I'm bragging. I rule. Toot, toot, toot. There, out of my system. Now I can go on being oppressed and unappreciated again.
So, I don't know. If I go for this advisor job here I'm likely to gnaw my own leg off, but it pays a lot more and it's likely I'll get the job. I"m kinda fond of my leg though. But the job market really sucks.
What to do, what to do???
