Nothing quite like coming back into the office after three weeks (albeit with a few work days in a foreign office nestled in there), opening up your e-mail, and finding an announcement from the CIO saying listing some internal re-org, including …
[…] Dave Hill, currently Manager of Workgroup Services, will be promoted to Director of Shared Services. [Name 1] and [Name 2] will report to Dave. Workgroup Services will be rolled into [Name 2]’s Operations Development team.
Please join me in welcoming the new people into our team, and congratulating Dave Hill on his promotion.
[Names excised for the same of company confidentiality stuff.]
I’d actually learned about this in the couple of days I got to sit with my boss out in the home office before Christmas, and it was quite a surprise. It’s also not nearly as impressive as it sounds. Except, I guess, for that “Director” bit, which I hadn’t known about until I read it here.
Basically it means I go from managing folks who do actual work, to managing managers. The people who were working for me before will be working for one of my directs, so I don’t get to dodge any issues there. I also have a significant number of major projects going on in those new groups for which I am now the “the buck stops here” guy. Great.
No rest for the wicked … and, thus, blogging might be a wee bit light today …
UPDATE: I suppose it’s just the Cosmic Sense of Humor that prompted this Dilbert today …
Congratulations! 🙂
Congrats!
And Hopefully it won’t conflict with the more family time resolution.
Thanks, and thank.
And, hopefully not, too. 🙂
Congratulations!
Thanks.
I’ve gotten an amazing number of congrats messages from folks in the company (which just goes to show how many people one can meet in the course of 15-odd years in a company).