PJTV(ent): I'm beginning to really hate my higher-up bosses. I take the initiative on my own (and PAY for it myself) to get certified in my field, and they treat like I spat on their children's graves. Why? Because it showed up the golden-haired child that they wanted to take my immediate boss's job when she retires in a couple weeks (and obviously she got the job).
So today I get an e-mail from somebody in the Education Department much higher up the chain, and she wants to write an article on me for a quarterly magazine that is put out by an organization I belong to and which helps sponsor the certificate program I took because I was the first on in VA to complete this course! I show it to the higher-up bosses, and one says, "Oh, that's nice," like I showed her some popsicle stick house I just made, and the other argues with me that I wasn't the first to finish the course, just the first to finish the non-credit bearing certificate course. WTF?? Had it been the golden haired child, they'd have gotten a 10-piece band to run up and down the halls at work, singing her praises. :huh2: