02-19-2008, 04:21 PM
I counted up, and I'm now on my 10th boss in 18 years.
Got a call from the president of my company yesterday afternoon -- they're doing a little restructuring and my one-person department has been relocated back to where it was in 2006 -- Training is now part of Tech Support again, instead of Marketing. Never mind that almost all of my tasks are Development-related, I can't be part of Development because -- well there's no good because. The president likes me and he doesn't particularly like the people in Development and he thinks he's doing me a favor by keeping me away from them. Sigh. Probably doesn't make any difference except that Development has a bigger budget and gets nicer stuff. He blah-blah-blahed me to death about why he's doing it and why I'm reporting to my 10th boss in 18 years, but long story short, I'm still doing the same thing I've been doing for the same money and just having a different person responsible for writing my annual review and listening to me bitch about how everyone forgets I exist because I'm off-site.
One good thing is that the new boss was originally trained by me as she was climbing up the ranks (the only reason I don't have her job is because I refuse to move back to Chicago or give up telecommuting); and she's already agreed to give me a team of employees and order nifty new Adobe Captivate 3 software to do what I want to do next... something I've been begging for from my old boss for awhile now... then again that means I'll have to go back to Chicago to meet with my new team from time to time. Oh well, chances to see my niece.
Just weirdness.
Got a call from the president of my company yesterday afternoon -- they're doing a little restructuring and my one-person department has been relocated back to where it was in 2006 -- Training is now part of Tech Support again, instead of Marketing. Never mind that almost all of my tasks are Development-related, I can't be part of Development because -- well there's no good because. The president likes me and he doesn't particularly like the people in Development and he thinks he's doing me a favor by keeping me away from them. Sigh. Probably doesn't make any difference except that Development has a bigger budget and gets nicer stuff. He blah-blah-blahed me to death about why he's doing it and why I'm reporting to my 10th boss in 18 years, but long story short, I'm still doing the same thing I've been doing for the same money and just having a different person responsible for writing my annual review and listening to me bitch about how everyone forgets I exist because I'm off-site.
One good thing is that the new boss was originally trained by me as she was climbing up the ranks (the only reason I don't have her job is because I refuse to move back to Chicago or give up telecommuting); and she's already agreed to give me a team of employees and order nifty new Adobe Captivate 3 software to do what I want to do next... something I've been begging for from my old boss for awhile now... then again that means I'll have to go back to Chicago to meet with my new team from time to time. Oh well, chances to see my niece.
Just weirdness.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.