{"id":1367,"date":"2012-03-05T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2012-03-03T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T15:56:04","slug":"30-day-picture-challenge-day-17-a-picture-of-something-that-has-made-a-huge-impact-on-your-life-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/30-day-picture-challenge-day-17-a-picture-of-something-that-has-made-a-huge-impact-on-your-life-recently\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Day Picture Challenge Day 17 \u2013 A Picture Of Something That Has Made A Huge Impact On Your Life Recently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/slate-d.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1406\" title=\"slate-d\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/slate-d.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/slate-d.gif 540w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/slate-d-300x278.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, this one is a little meta and will take a bit of an explanation.\u00a0 Two years back, there was a big initiative at work to bring the IT salary structure, which was set up around\u00a0position clusters, to the band structure that the rest of the company used.\u00a0 While nearly everyone in my position was placed\u00a0in the &#8220;D&#8221; band, there were three of us that were put in the lesser &#8220;C&#8221; band.\u00a0 To make matters worse, the other two were quickly promoted to the &#8220;D&#8221; band, leaving me as the sole occupant of the &#8220;C&#8221; band for my position family.<\/p>\n<p>So, as you can probably guess by now, this week I was finally promoted to the &#8220;D&#8221; band, which won&#8217;t make much of a difference in my day-to-day duties, but should\u00a0have a decent effect on the bi-weekly direct deposit.\u00a0 On the downside, I did promise my manager, who has worked almost as hard at securing this promotion as I did, that I would stay for a year.\u00a0 Which, given the rate that we are losing our best employess, will be very difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this one is a little meta and will take a bit of an explanation.\u00a0 Two years back, there was a big initiative at work to bring the IT salary structure, which was set up around\u00a0position clusters, to the band structure that the rest of the company used.\u00a0 While nearly everyone in my position was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[650,551],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-30dpc","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}