That's...really interesting about the G+ stuff. I'd read about the pseud stuff, but i didn't know about the pulling of all the Google stuff. That's...effed up.

JZ, ugh. I'm sorry -- I wish they'd given you piles more of money.

There needs to be a website or something called "get me away from this terrible weather" and you can put in where you are and what you want to escape from/get to and it tells you where to go.

I did this in a very crude way using the weather.com temperature map, and the nearest place with a temperature below 80 degrees (except Charleston which is currently mid-thunderstorm) is western CT. Unfortunately that is not a reasonable day trip for me.

Ugh. I just got my formal job offer, and it is the lowest possible offer that HR is legally required to make. My new admin director fought back on it, but HR categorically refused to budge. I mean, it's still good because I'm now at least at the bottom of a much higher career track instead of near the top of a dead-end one

This is why I am relieved to be out of higher ed. Though for how long, who knows. I do know that if I ever want to be in "professional staff" in higher ed, I need to bulk up my experience and title growth outside its horrid HR ivory tower and then come back in.

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I'm sorry about the job offer stuff, JZ.

JZ, I'm sorry -- that's crappy and disappointing. If you don't mind my asking, is it at least a step up from the salary you're at now, or is it actually a decrease?

JZ, blecch.

I'm sorry, JZ, but I know how those pay scales work and, as you know, the people doing the hiring often have no choice. They may have the option to move you up with raises fairly quickly, though, since you have a higher midpoint now.

I'm sorry, JZ, but I know how those pay scales work and, as you know, the people doing the hiring often have no choice. They may have the option to move you up with raises fairly quickly, though, since you have a higher midpoint now.

I was in basically a similar situation when I moved to CO. I moved to a higher level job with more potential after maxing out my no-future position. I didn't get any increase in pay - they tried to make it out that since they weren't making a reduction in cost of living that I was actually getting a raise, but still - no increase. BUT since then I have already gotten a promotion with a nice increase that never would have happened in my old position.

It's a 5% increase - which doesn't suck, except it's 5% up from the salary I was hired at 3+ years ago. The new division is under the umbrella of a dept that does periodic performance and salary reviews of all its management-ish people (I won't in fact be managing anyone, but this position is technically management), roughly every couple of years but more at the discretion of the higher-ups. I don't know where we are in the cycle.

Right now I'm about to be the highest-paid person at my level in the entire department, which is another whole level of ridiculous (in my small office there's one person who's been working there for 7 years, and I think I'll now be out-earning her. System of pure craxy.).