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Follow Up
Nine hours later, and I'm calm. I would guess that my post earlier today was perhaps a little vague, so here's the deal: last fall a new regime swept into the technology department at work. A new director for the department came in, and along with him came a new development manager and some other key new additions. Much chaos followed. As of this morning, that new director is gone. This is not particularly surprising, given that as of today I have now seen five diffrent individuals fill that position in less than four years. Of course upper management assures us that Eli is the one that is actually going to stay. Show of hands for everyone who believes that? Me either. I'll be shocked if he is still here for the company Christmas party this year.
The basic problem, from my perspective, is that I worked my ass of last year to be noticed. And it worked. I was well respected throughout the company, and highly valued within the development department. But now everybody who used to be in my direct chain of command is either gone, or else has been moved to a different position. My current chain of command is made up of a development lead who clearly has no respect for me, a development manager who ignores me, and a managing director who has flat out patronized me continually for the past several months. Last year I was on track for a promotion to a lead position, this year I am completely frozen out. I'm not paranoid, it's not even that everybody is out to get me. It's that everybody who is in any kind of supervisory position over me is completely indifferent to me. I am just a disembodied voice on the other side of the country, and these are people who only pay attention to you if you camp out in their office and force them to. I am screwed.
On the bright side, there may yet be a chance that I can return to my previous maintenance role. There are forces at play outside my direct chain of command, and at some point I would really like to believe that good still triumphs over evil.
The basic problem, from my perspective, is that I worked my ass of last year to be noticed. And it worked. I was well respected throughout the company, and highly valued within the development department. But now everybody who used to be in my direct chain of command is either gone, or else has been moved to a different position. My current chain of command is made up of a development lead who clearly has no respect for me, a development manager who ignores me, and a managing director who has flat out patronized me continually for the past several months. Last year I was on track for a promotion to a lead position, this year I am completely frozen out. I'm not paranoid, it's not even that everybody is out to get me. It's that everybody who is in any kind of supervisory position over me is completely indifferent to me. I am just a disembodied voice on the other side of the country, and these are people who only pay attention to you if you camp out in their office and force them to. I am screwed.
On the bright side, there may yet be a chance that I can return to my previous maintenance role. There are forces at play outside my direct chain of command, and at some point I would really like to believe that good still triumphs over evil.