career ladder

Discussion in 'AstraZeneca' started by anonymous, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:59 PM.

Tags: Add Tags
  1. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Anyone have any idea what to expect for a base salary raise for a DSS gong from level 2 to level 3?
     

  2. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    *going
     
  3. anonymous

    anonymous Guest


    3-5% raise and the add'l bonus opportunity
     
  4. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Nothing because no one is getting it....
     
  5. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Try while you can.the system is designed to make you stay around with the hopes of cl4 and 10 years later you'll question why in the world you stayed for a little more $ vs getting double digit raises had you left long ago.
     
  6. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    10 years? I can't wait that long bruh!
     
  7. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    I was worried about that given all the talk about the enterprise years.
     
  8. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    About 5-10%.
     
  9. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Thank you. I was wondering, too. 3-10%? I suppose maybe it depends on where your current base is vs the average? What is average for 2 vs 3?
     
  10. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    About 4 hours per week.
     
  11. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Work hard, stay off the radar.
     
  12. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    2-5%
     
  13. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Anyone hear about their career ladder raises yet?
     
  14. anonymous

    anonymous Guest


    Mine was shy of 4%
     
  15. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Mine was just over 3.5%.
     
  16. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    What's the average (approximate) salary for a career ladder 3?
     
  17. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    My last work with I wanted to shoot myself afterward. I asked my manager about this very topic. She said to me "imagine the AZ career ladder as an old school, old fashioned wooden ladder." I thought this was odd, but she kept saying "visualize it" and I did. I saw the rungs. I saw the chipped paint and duct tape holding back the splinters.

    She said, now imagine you are climbing that ladder, moving ever higher. And I saw that. I looked back on my career and saw myself moving ahead of my peers. I saw my future at AZ

    She said, "now imagine that upper management had a bucketful of termites and they proceeded to pour it on the lower rungs."

    I could see the ladder being consumed by the hungry little bugs. The faster I climbed, the more they ate. For every rung I climbed up, those little bastards ate two and brought me back to mediocrity.

    Now she said, "imagine every glad-handing douchebag VP you've ever seen on stage at an NSM lining up, pouring bucket after bucket of termites on that ladder." And I could see that.

    Then, I realized she was the wrong person to commiserate with. As I sat there listening to her talk I could see it with clarity. The only way she has been able to last as long as she has at AZ has been to line up and undermine us as well. As I listened to her I could see her standing in line waiting for her own turn to pour her bucket of termites on my fucking career ladder, dashing my hopes and dreams.

    And there it is. Buckets of termites on the career ladder. Work your ass off or work ten to two, Tuesday to Thursday... hell even be the AZ "new tradition" guy, it doesn't matter. Those termites are going to eat you.

    Munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch, munch.
     
  18. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Brilliant!
     
  19. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    There are two things wrong with career ladders. #1 there are no career opportunities at AZ and a ladder serves two function 1 is to help you up the other is to take you back down.
    At AZ, every year spent here is another step closer to the black hole known as a death spiral.
     
  20. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    So true. You are never higher on the ladder than your first day at AZ. Every year you spend is taking another step down the ladder. You just don't know how many rungs are left on your ladder but eventually you will touch down with a huge thud.