Redemption

30 Apr

I’ve been with my company for almost 8.5 years. And I’ve received my share of awards (pride goeth before a fall, cocky Kim of 2004!) and accolades in the past. Even a promotion.

Almost two years ago I hit control-alt-delete on my career and — much to the bewilderment of my managers and the other higher-ups — gave up the management job that I was promoted to. It just wasn’t a good fit for me at that point in time. So I took a backseat role in our department and have been happy ever since. But when I did that, I resigned myself to the fact that I committed career suicide. That I’d be blacklisted from the range of honors and awards that are doled out here on a regular basis.

So when the email arrived last week telling me I was nominated for Employee of the Quarter, I did a double take. Me? Really? I read it again. I really *was* nominated for Employee of the Quarter! The winner gets a parking spot, a jacket, a nice sum of cash, and a chance to be Employee of the Year.

The reception for the 14 nominees was at 4pm. They read a nice passage about each of us who won and I was shocked to learn that I was nominated twice…once with Coworker Sharon for the groundbreaking work we’re doing in Advertising and once with Coworkers M and S for our work together on the new redesign. Then, the publisher announced the winner.

Rather, winners. Somebody from Circulation won for her great work w/our Customer Service department.

And …

Our 3-person web redesign group won too!!!

Sweet Merciful Crap!

I very nearly burst into tears.

The money, the jacket, the baseball cap and the parking spot are fantastic

But I received a prize that trumps them all….

The knowledge that, again, I am good at what I do.

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7 Responses to “Redemption”

  1. dr. dave April 30, 2008 at 8:39 pm #

    good for you.

    i found out today that i was NOT “short-listed” for the distinguished teaching award.

    at least ONE of us is good at what they do. >:(

  2. Tommy April 30, 2008 at 9:58 pm #

    Kim – Fantastic News. Much congratulations – very well deserved.

  3. Brian Z. April 30, 2008 at 10:20 pm #

    Wow – outstanding! Congratulations. Of course, I’ve LONG known of your brains and capable-ness, so I express little surprise. ;-)

  4. Jen May 1, 2008 at 8:59 am #

    And to think I knew you when………working in a cubicle in “where is that” Glou Cty. Congrats!!

  5. Kristen May 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm #

    Congratulations!

    And of course you’re good at what you do. You should have never doubted that.

  6. Vanessa May 1, 2008 at 3:57 pm #

    Well done you!!! Well deserved.

  7. d.mo May 2, 2008 at 12:37 pm #

    Congrats! That’s awesome. Employees that stick around for more than a few years are truly hard to come across, so this is indeed well-deserved!

    About the only thing I ever got at any job was when I worked for Best Buy. I was Employee of the Week (or Hour, I dunno) and got–if you can believe this–a Best Buy-branded MagLite. I still have it, BTW :)