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<blockquote data-quote="UPS Lifer" data-source="post: 669182" data-attributes="member: 9789"><p>Cezanne,</p><p>I used <strong>astute</strong> and put it in bold for a reason. I chose that word carefully. <span style="color: Blue"> It means having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn it to one's advantage. </span></p><p></p><p>Cream rises to the top. I have had quite a few admins work for me or indirectly reported to me. I have made this assessment based on actual observation over the years. Most admins are great employees but they have settled into their comfort zone and are uneasy or unwilling to take the chance or risk it takes to better position themselves. I won't accept passing responsibility on to someone else. I watched <strong>astute </strong>admins move up the ladder due to their ability to fulfill the definition above. At the very least, an astute admin can reach their top pay grade and find a job that is least likely going to be eliminated. You don't do this by chance. You look at the growing areas of the company or the departments that cannot be farmed out or the positions that require tight UPS control and do not have layers of redundancy and you fill those slots. </p><p></p><p>Example 1 - managment (me) - I was a supervisor in Customer Service (loved the job) but it was a dead end. Only one manager a year was being promoted. I asked to go to operations where 4 to 5 managers a year were being promoted. When I got a chance to be promoted, it was as a preload manager. I turned the position down because at the time, preload managers were being taken from hub managers and not package. I figured I could end up as a hub manager when I really wanted to be a package manager. I did not want to be pigeon holed into an area that could keep me on nights for my whole career.</p><p></p><p>Example 2 - admin. This person started in IE and spoke broken English, as someone who input data into charts for me. She wanted more responsibility and took on jobs from other admins who didn't want to do the work. She learned how to create work flow for the "new" intranet we were developing in our district. She wanted to know how to move to the next level and I told her, she went to school, got her degree while raising a family, she worked diligently on her English and writing skills and did everything to move up the ranks. She had 4 different jobs that no longer are part of UPS. She moved from IE to Business Development and worked her way into International Sales as a grade 12. She is the cream of the crop and I know quite a few more like her. </p><p></p><p>We make our own fate. Those who blame others for their failings or lack of foresight.</p><p></p><p>There are very successful corporations who cut the bottom 5% of their workforce every year. This continues to pump new blood into the corporation and gives those who have the skill, the incentive to work diligently to stay out of that bottom 5%!<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/its_all_good.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":its_all_good:" title="Its All Good :its_all_good:" data-shortname=":its_all_good:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UPS Lifer, post: 669182, member: 9789"] Cezanne, I used [B]astute[/B] and put it in bold for a reason. I chose that word carefully. [COLOR=Blue] It means having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn it to one's advantage. [/COLOR] Cream rises to the top. I have had quite a few admins work for me or indirectly reported to me. I have made this assessment based on actual observation over the years. Most admins are great employees but they have settled into their comfort zone and are uneasy or unwilling to take the chance or risk it takes to better position themselves. I won't accept passing responsibility on to someone else. I watched [B]astute [/B]admins move up the ladder due to their ability to fulfill the definition above. At the very least, an astute admin can reach their top pay grade and find a job that is least likely going to be eliminated. You don't do this by chance. You look at the growing areas of the company or the departments that cannot be farmed out or the positions that require tight UPS control and do not have layers of redundancy and you fill those slots. Example 1 - managment (me) - I was a supervisor in Customer Service (loved the job) but it was a dead end. Only one manager a year was being promoted. I asked to go to operations where 4 to 5 managers a year were being promoted. When I got a chance to be promoted, it was as a preload manager. I turned the position down because at the time, preload managers were being taken from hub managers and not package. I figured I could end up as a hub manager when I really wanted to be a package manager. I did not want to be pigeon holed into an area that could keep me on nights for my whole career. Example 2 - admin. This person started in IE and spoke broken English, as someone who input data into charts for me. She wanted more responsibility and took on jobs from other admins who didn't want to do the work. She learned how to create work flow for the "new" intranet we were developing in our district. She wanted to know how to move to the next level and I told her, she went to school, got her degree while raising a family, she worked diligently on her English and writing skills and did everything to move up the ranks. She had 4 different jobs that no longer are part of UPS. She moved from IE to Business Development and worked her way into International Sales as a grade 12. She is the cream of the crop and I know quite a few more like her. We make our own fate. Those who blame others for their failings or lack of foresight. There are very successful corporations who cut the bottom 5% of their workforce every year. This continues to pump new blood into the corporation and gives those who have the skill, the incentive to work diligently to stay out of that bottom 5%!:its_all_good: [/QUOTE]
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