Young and Employed » young professionals http://youngandemployed.com Perspectives on business from young marketing and public relations professionals Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Go back to watching “The Hills” http://youngandemployed.com/2010/08/06/go-back-to-watching-%e2%80%9cthe-hills%e2%80%9d/ http://youngandemployed.com/2010/08/06/go-back-to-watching-%e2%80%9cthe-hills%e2%80%9d/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:06:47 +0000 Francisco http://youngandemployed.com/?p=347 In the business world, no matter your career level, we all have way too many meetings and presentations to attend.  In a personal level (and I bet I’m not the only one) this is time I would prefer to spend working on my other thousands of things on my plate, but this is usually not an option.  There is only one thing that can make a boring presentation worse and that is having Heidi and Spencer (from MTV THE HILLS) as your speaker.

“Hello, like I am Megan, and like I want to show you like, our new product….LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, mmmm…”  For heaven sake woman, you are not a cheerleader anymore!

Many girls have fought really hard to gain respect in the business world, and it’s sad that we still encounter others behaving like this is a beauty pageant.  I say, if you can’t hold a conversation without adding the world LIKE as a verb, adverb, adjective, noun, or anything other than a comparison, you should not be allowed to talk in public.

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]]> http://youngandemployed.com/2010/08/06/go-back-to-watching-%e2%80%9cthe-hills%e2%80%9d/feed/ 1 Promotions are like Santa Claus http://youngandemployed.com/2009/06/29/promotions-are-like-santa-claus/ http://youngandemployed.com/2009/06/29/promotions-are-like-santa-claus/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:50:08 +0000 Francisco http://youngandemployed.com/?p=56 Not too long ago, in a pretty good career place, I discovered a very popular technique for some companies; the Fake Promotion.  Let me explain, a fake promotion, is a promotion with a useless title that usually includes terms like Manager, Director, Team Leader, Super Duper, The Omega Specialist, etc.; but nothing else.

We all dream of the moment when someone recognizes our hard work, and this is one of those moments.  Your boss, and sometimes his/her supervisor will realize that they have a valuable employee on their hands, but he/she is incredibly underpaid, therefore they go for these “Fake Promotions” to keep us happy.

But Promotions are like Santa Claus, you can believe all you want, but if that Fat Jolly Bastard don’t bring you some toys, he won’t be getting any cookies next year, because you stop believing (we could use the analogy of “The boy who cried wolf” also, but let’s save that one for some other day).  Promotions with no monetary or benefit increment are as useless as a new pair of “Business Socks”, they will make you feel good for a couple of days, but that’s it.

I’m not complaining, but I like to share with the new generation, that though these Fake Promotions are a big compliment, I advise everyone to let their superiors know that they are not naive enough to fall in love with your company because of your new title, and though you are flattered, you will continue your search to achieve your goals, monetary or otherwise.

This may be a good time to ask for a raise, you may not get it, but after all, it was their idea to promote you, not yours.

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