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I’m a fresher and have recently completed my internship as an Operations manager at Amazon. I am currently looking for FT opportunities. I came across and opening at Maersk for the role of Business Analyst. Could anyone refer me for the role or maybe point me to a suitable opportunity?
thanks!
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Not even a quick “Hi! How are you? Bye!”? I mean they are not wrong but also not right. It’s a weird situation to be in lol.
Rising Star
I get that 😂
You should probably double check your contract that this is even allowed (working on another brand Freelance while being full-time employed by your agency). That’s probably what they’re being weird about. It’s not the end of the world to do that on the side, but to flaunt it in front of your team in a very public setting is odd.
Rising Star
I didn’t flaunt anything, I post on my socials how I normally do. I didn’t talk about anything until someone said “We didn’t see you in Cannes at all.”
You took off from your FT job to go to Cannes to do freelance work while people from your FT job were also there and you avoided them?
Obviously do what you wanna do, but that is objectively awkward.
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…when they’re the ones that pay for you to go. Jeez, you’re a brown noser.
Forget them. Yall aren’t “friends”.
So they’re mad you can Cannes better than they can Cannes?
Chief
Good for you, OP. Of the agency wanted you to hang out, they should’ve paid you to go to Cannes.
It’s your vacation. You don’t need to meetup with coworkers just because they’re there too.
I get it, corporate employee groups can be weird.
If these are your coworker/peers, you might want to try just talking to them one-on-one, and just explaining “I was there working my other gig and couldn’t hang out” which might separate the work aspect from the human side and bring things back into balance. Money is tight and we all have to earn as much as we can, from wherever we can.
But if it’s leadership being weird it might take more, since leadership often has to strongly self-identify with the business culture to move up and succeed. So with them you might want to present it to them as some sort of an unexploited opportunity and that they could choose compensate you accordingly to go and work for the business next year.
If none of that works, screw it - it was your approved time off, and no one has any right to tell you what to do on your unpaid time.
As someone who isn’t publicly building a professional brand beyond occasionally posting my new work on LinkedIn, I have some anxiety.
People younger, less experienced, and less talented than me are making money and getting opportunities simply by posting consistently. In an objectively logical world, I’d blame myself, start posting more, and build my own brand.
In reality, it’s natural to be jealous of someone junior who is capitalizing on the opportunities of social media. I may rightly think unqualified thought leadership is bullsht, but if someone is demanding success by building their own brand while I’m hoping every year my job will give me a raise or promotion because I “deserve” it, it’s hard for me not to be a hater. Even if I know I’m being one.
Rising Star
I get it
Who paid? The brand? Them Then the Hell with your agency.
Would be good to know your relationship you have with said colleagues - are they from the creative department? CDs? ECDs?
If it was your CD, then it’s just awkward for you not to acknowledge or at least pretended you wanted to hang out.
Depending on your relationship with them and their own level of envy or awareness of your social media presence, they may actually now feel a little snubbed by what they now see as a celebrity in their mix too. Just an idea…🤔
And the point of this post is…?
Pro
Perspective, what was your point in posting?
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