When my previous employer (a previously largest computer (red) manufacturer in the world), merged with another large blue manufacturer, our contract employees who used to be treated as equals with my previous company, ended up treated as second-class employees, not able to benefot and attend employee parties, functions, etc... any more. The policy got strict because of what happened at Microshaft when (as some may have read in the papers a few years ago) got a class action lawsuit from contract employees who have worked there for many years ended up laid off without severence, unlike full-time employees who got comfy packages. They sued, and won on the grounds that if they are treated like full employees, they must get all rights and benefits of full employees.

The above caused a ripple in the industry and companies need to watch their asses now, and make clear distictions.

If it's really not distinct in your case, you have a precedent.

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Originally posted by TranceGrooves that goes door to door?

Yeah thats where I started out, but like I said, I've been there a while off and on. In the last while I was on the renewal crew which wasn't door to door, it was seeing specific people, and was a the trainer for new people for that crew. I was one of the top writers and hold the highest day for the Kitchener office, and fell 2 deals short of hitting what our national distributor's best day is. So it's not like I'm some yahoo that comes and goes.

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Originally posted by MarkT I sympathize...but am not surprised. Think about it from the employer standpoint...do you want an employee who is focused on their role or one who is juggling two positions (and potentially neglecting one in favour of the other, for whatever reason)? what sucks in this case is that apparently no one bothered to tell you this ahead of time and possibly even implied that you could carry on doing both

From the employers stand point, they know I wouldn't be "juggling" 2 positions. They know that the recruiting position would be held in priority no matter what, and that I would be working renewals on the side, like I did before when I had other jobs outside of the company. I only did renewals full time for a short while, and seeing as how I get off work at 4:30 I get time between each job and then hit peak hours for renewals. So it's not like I haven't done it before, and most of them know that, just not from a head office point of view, whose opinion on whether or not I am capable of doing it IMO isn't even important, because they aren't my manager, or regional, and they aren't affected by the numbers I write in the least.

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Last edited by lopi on Jan-16-2007 at 23:34

aww shit hun :\ sorry to hear that such a fuck up happened

is there any way any of the head people you know well can work this out for you?

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Originally posted by lopi Yeah thats where I started out, but like I said, I've been there a while off and on. In the last while I was on the renewal crew which wasn't door to door, it was seeing specific people, and was a the trainer for new people for that crew. I was one of the top writers and hold the highest day for the Kitchener office, and fell 2 deals short of hitting what our national distributor's best day is. So it's not like I'm some yahoo that comes and goes.

seems like you are able to back your shit up.
this is my suggestion.

Prepare a letter directed to the highest power in your company. out line the concern you have the numbers you have put up and what your intentions are for future. make it seem like you care (which i am sure you do otherwise there wont be this thread). request a meeting with them to further discuss the situation. and see how it goes from there.

in these kind of situations it is very easy to come across as a arrogant over confident SOB. so be careful about your wording of the letter and what you say personally. also dont let this be a reason that will show any signs of low productivity at work nor let it become a big deal while it is being looked after.

cheers to you and hopefully it will all work out for the best

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If your trip to Jamaica is the only reason your hesitant to resign from your position as an agent, don't think twice about it and just take the recruiter position.

It will probably be difficult since you seem to have worked hard to get that perk but its only a short term disappointment that you will probably forget about once you take up the promotion and start making more moolah and having a better and more authoritative position.

On the other hand, if you stick around being an agent, you might not be happy with it once you come back from your vacation. Think about it as a situation where someone is giving you a choice of "Do you want 50 bucks right now or 500 in a year? "