It’s time to make the move!!!
I decided several weeks ago that I no longer enjoy sitting on my ass to make a day-to-day living. My 90 day tenure with DirecTV was a great learning experience and added a lot of depth to my career path as a customer service expert. I excelled at the position and the training that was afforded me allowed me to work well in the position. There are other training and coaching opportunities that would have come along for me, but I grew impatient for those openings to appear.
I have several years of sales and customer service in the motorcycle industry, including a stint as a certified instructor with the Motorcycle Safety Foundation in Missouri. When an opening in the parts and accessories department with the local Harley-Davidson dealership was brought to my attention, I got my updated resume into them on the off chance I would actually get an interview.
It was only a few days later when I got the call to come in and speak with the parts and accessories department manager. I felt the ensuing interview went very well and was hopeful. I have a friend that I met at DirecTV during the training phases that owns a couple Harleys, and she left DirecTV and ended up in the Motorclothes department at the dealership. She told me, on the afternoon before I was called about accepting my application for the position, that I had as good if not a better chance at the position than any other applicants.
I accepted Harley’s offer to join their team and worked out many of the details to come on board with them, and am now working my strategy to extricate myself from DirecTV. Since I had some accrued time off, I decided to apply for and take the time off with pay that I had prior to submitting my notice. Not knowing exactly what the policy is with my employer (and believe me, I looked through all my employment manuals and online sources) regarding termination of employment and whether I would be allowed a two week notice time or that they would require me to leave immediately, I chose to burn the few days of ‘floating’ days with pay allotted me now. I also have some PTO (Personal Time Off) accrued that will be paid to me at 100% of my pay rate upon termination.
Funds are still a bit tight with my income, so I will try to enjoy the few days off relaxing around the home, doing some chores, catch up on some hobby issues as well as computer time.
I feel strongly that this move to a new employment will serve several needed changes in my lifestyle and health including more exercise (needed with my health condition), more diversity and people contact (get to work with people face-to-face), higher wages to start with (YES! A much needed raise!), comparable medical and retirement benefits (still looking at all the details of these issues). Most of all, a lot more interaction with the type of motorcycle enthusiasts I am familiar with!
Please stay tuned for further adventures of the team of ‘Don & Geri does Montana’!!
I decided several weeks ago that I no longer enjoy sitting on my ass to make a day-to-day living. My 90 day tenure with DirecTV was a great learning experience and added a lot of depth to my career path as a customer service expert. I excelled at the position and the training that was afforded me allowed me to work well in the position. There are other training and coaching opportunities that would have come along for me, but I grew impatient for those openings to appear.
I have several years of sales and customer service in the motorcycle industry, including a stint as a certified instructor with the Motorcycle Safety Foundation in Missouri. When an opening in the parts and accessories department with the local Harley-Davidson dealership was brought to my attention, I got my updated resume into them on the off chance I would actually get an interview.
It was only a few days later when I got the call to come in and speak with the parts and accessories department manager. I felt the ensuing interview went very well and was hopeful. I have a friend that I met at DirecTV during the training phases that owns a couple Harleys, and she left DirecTV and ended up in the Motorclothes department at the dealership. She told me, on the afternoon before I was called about accepting my application for the position, that I had as good if not a better chance at the position than any other applicants.
I accepted Harley’s offer to join their team and worked out many of the details to come on board with them, and am now working my strategy to extricate myself from DirecTV. Since I had some accrued time off, I decided to apply for and take the time off with pay that I had prior to submitting my notice. Not knowing exactly what the policy is with my employer (and believe me, I looked through all my employment manuals and online sources) regarding termination of employment and whether I would be allowed a two week notice time or that they would require me to leave immediately, I chose to burn the few days of ‘floating’ days with pay allotted me now. I also have some PTO (Personal Time Off) accrued that will be paid to me at 100% of my pay rate upon termination.
Funds are still a bit tight with my income, so I will try to enjoy the few days off relaxing around the home, doing some chores, catch up on some hobby issues as well as computer time.
I feel strongly that this move to a new employment will serve several needed changes in my lifestyle and health including more exercise (needed with my health condition), more diversity and people contact (get to work with people face-to-face), higher wages to start with (YES! A much needed raise!), comparable medical and retirement benefits (still looking at all the details of these issues). Most of all, a lot more interaction with the type of motorcycle enthusiasts I am familiar with!
Please stay tuned for further adventures of the team of ‘Don & Geri does Montana’!!
