gaddammit!

a few years back i wrote about how i was faced with protests against my appointment.  i am once again being promoted, now at the verge of my appointment being signed, and once again, i am faced with a protester. gaddammit! 

i have been acting as the office chief for over 2 years. i have instituted reforms that have made our service faster and more efficient, and i have found a way to make the staff actually get along with one another (no more fist fights here!). and i am sooooo not tooting my own horn.  today our office is one of the most improved, if not THE most improved office in our organization. other people have seen it, other people know it, and other people are so fucking impressed by it.

gaddammit!

six months after being appointed as acting chief i knew that i had to take my Masters degree if i wanted to become THE CHIEF. and so i did. i have finished all the academic requirements and now doing my thesis.  last december i was told by Human Resources that the vacant position had to be filled up and my exam/interview was scheduled for the next week.  the nasty rat race begins.

gaddammit!

everyone knew A wanted the position even though he comes from a different office.  he was turning to the big bosses to get a recommendation.  little birds told me that some bosses told him not to apply for it because i was next in rank and i had actually done the office good.  some even told A he wouldn't stand a chance against me. others encouraged him. well... he didn't need to hear any of it because he was dead set on running the race anyway. 

gaddammit!

after the interview, the trusted little birds once again came to me and told me what they heard.  during A's interview he was asked "Knowing what the acting chief has done to improve the office, what will YOU do to surpass what she has done?" his answer "I am a Ll.B. (law graduate)" One of the interviewers asked the question again. he replied "I finished law and she didn't." at that point interviewer 1 told him that he wasn't answering the question and besides, the position did not require a law degree at all since it was administrative in nature.  he challenged interviewer 1 and said that he knows it's a requirement for the position.  interviewer 1 apparently got pissed and sarcastically told him that since it's their job to interview, score and rank, they know the requirements better than he does and they're sure that a law degree was not required.  ooooooohhhhh....... A wasn't happy with that so he didn't bother to answer the question at all.  interviewer 2 told the little birds that A wasn't even able to fully describe what the office does while interviewer 3 told them that A said i had lied in my resume because i wasn't even taking my Masters degree at all. when it was my turn to be interviewed, the interviewers asked if it was true that i was not actually enrolled in a Masters degree program.  i told them that i was, that i was merely finishing my thesis and that i could secure a certification from the school to prove it. 

gaddammit!

during the first week of february i was told that i had ranked first and that the big bosses has approved my appointment. next step, they actually sign the appointment.  i guess A found out too coz sure enough next thing i heard from the little birds, A was going to file a protest.  okaaaaayyyyyy! so i submitted the certification. hah!  

gaddammit!

just this morning, the little birds came by bearing news.  A started asking around and verifying(?) the rumor that i had gotten my first appointment anomalously.  An insider told him that it wasn't true, i had met all the qualifications for the first position and that there was nothing anomalous about the appointment.  

gaddammit!

i have been working my ass off.  i have made this office better. i believe i've earned the promotion.  seriously! what has he done?  even his own officemates have told the little birdies that all he does is play computer games all day, he's unreliable, he has not conributed to the betterment of the office, they know he wants to apply for this particular promotion because he doesn't stand a chance in their office, and he thinks it's an easy job because everything's already laid out.  

gaddammit!

I LAID IT OUT, YOU FRIGGIN ASSHOLE! AND I DIDN'T DO IT FOR YOU, FUCKING SHITHEAD!!! I DID IT WHICH MEANS I CAN JUST AS EASILY UNDO IT!!!!! I KEPT COOL DURING THE LAST PROTEST BUT THIS TIME I WON'T!  AND FYI, THE STAFF HAS ALREADY SAID THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE CHIEF, THEY'RE GOING TO BOYCOTT YOU BECAUSE THEY KNOW YOU WON'T DO A THING FOR THIS OFFICE, DUMBNUTS!!!!! 

GADDAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay, now back to work.