300% improvement - what would you do?

[deanobillquay]

I'm a IT trainer for a company that's 5 mins walk from my house, has excellent working hours, allows me to play golf twice midweek, sometimes on weekends, never work on weekends.

In 18 months, through training 20 people, I've delivered improvements of around 300%, up to 500% in one case

My reward for this I hear you say? Zilch, nada except for my title as Trainer to be made permanent (I was on a fixed contract)

Do I now take up a job offer that is considerably more in salary, but would not allow me to play twice/thrice a week?

Or stay in the same job and play at twice a week at least?


Tough decision...


As a result of playing regular, my scores are tumbling down too :clap:

 

[GreiginFife]

Surely though your employment was to train the people which in turn delivered the improvement? So you met expectation in your role and the people directly delivered the improvement?
I work in the world of process improvement and in the last 3 years have delivered improvements c.£26M and I don't get any reward for that, beyond still having a job, as it's my role to do that as I would assume it's your role to train people to be good at what they do? Or have I missed something?

As for the job change, if money is your driver then absolutely no brainer. But if you like the lifestyle you have and you know for sure that would change in the new business then better the devil you know in some cases.

 

[bladeplayer]

Would depend on alot of things

Despite feeling under apreciated, apart from close to home what are the other benifits of your curren job , extra dosh is great but been happy & content in your work is very important also .. for your mental health

I want, but do i need the extra dosh ?

How close is it to home , ist it much more costly financialy & time wise to get to new job ,, say its an hour there and an hour back to new job, thats 10 hours a week extra even at £12 ph that an extra £120 needed a week extra to just break even ..

How important is golf to you ?

As per Greig what reward do you expect for doing the job you are employed to do ? ?

 

[deanobillquay]

I was already employed at the company albeit in a different role, they asked me to move to a different department but hedged their bets by giving me a fixed contract.

And my initial brief was to deliver 50% improvement if possible.

My background before this job was 20 years of manufacturing so I applied lean manufacturing techniques to an IT process and completely redesigned it to allow huge increases in efficiency.

You have a point about the extra 120 a week just to break even bladeplayer, it's food for thought.

There's also a strong argument for getting out of the office politics environment and back into the real world, regardless of the money.

 

[DappaDonDave]

I was already employed at the company albeit in a different role, they asked me to move to a different department but hedged their bets by giving me a fixed contract.

And my initial brief was to deliver 50% improvement if possible.

My background before this job was 20 years of manufacturing so I applied lean manufacturing techniques to an IT process and completely redesigned it to allow huge increases in efficiency.

You have a point about the extra 120 a week just to break even bladeplayer, it's food for thought.

There's also a strong argument for getting out of the office politics environment and back into the real world, regardless of the money.

Accept the offer, see what your current employer does, if they don't budge on your salary either stay or move. Youve not Lost or gained

 

[Khamelion]

I moved jobs because I had no pay rise and although the craic in the office was good, the craic doesn't pay the bills. That said if the lifesytle you currently have allows you to live comfortably and you are happy, why rock the boat, though, as someone else wrote, if money is your driver then move.

What would your current company do if you left? Are you the sole individual only capable of doing the job your doing? Would you leaving create a problem for your company or are you easily replaced? Would the company have to spend a lot of money training someone else to do your job?

 

[deanobillquay]

I moved jobs because I had no pay rise and although the craic in the office was good, the craic doesn't pay the bills. That said if the lifesytle you currently have allows you to live comfortably and you are happy, why rock the boat, though, as someone else wrote, if money is your driver then move.

What would your current company do if you left? Are you the sole individual only capable of doing the job your doing? Would you leaving create a problem for your company or are you easily replaced? Would the company have to spend a lot of money training someone else to do your job?

Yep, at the moment I could safely say there's no one there who could do what I'm doing and that's without blowing my trumpet.

I'm good at what I do, but recently the golf has completely de-stressed me. Previously owned my business so living a life without stress is prob THE most important thing for me.

 

[Khamelion]

living a life without stress is prob THE most important thing for me.

You've answered your own question.

Money helps, but if you don't need it, it isn't the be all and end all, being happy, stress free and enjoying what you've got is way way more important.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I applied lean manufacturing techniques to an IT process

Can you help me 5S my desktop?

 

[deanobillquay]

Can you help me 5S my desktop?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_lean_management :rofl: