More Changes at Work
February 26, 2006 | In: Work
Things did calm down following the major outage we experienced at work a few weeks ago, but now there have been some shake-ups on the technology side, resulting in two announcements.
The first came on Wednesday when we found out that our boss was leaving the company. My new manager, Brad, had decided to go back to the company from whence he came, which is starting back up, after having been bought by another company which subsequently went bankrupt. He and some other people bought the assets of the old, original company and now they’re ready to re-hire him. Good for Brad. I know that I wouldn’t pass up such an opportunity, so I don’t think anyone will blame him for doing it. He’ll surely be missed because I think he’s a good manager and certainly made me start to enjoy my job again.
On th next day, Thursday, we had a large meeting with our CEO who announced that our VP of Technology was leaving the company — and that both the technology and product teams were being unified under one manager, which I think is excellent idea.
At the end of the meeting, I was left wondering who was going to be my new boss. Turns out everyone on the infrastructure group will report directly to the new VP. I have mixed feelings about it. When we used to report to the old VP, I often felt neglected. He wasn’t available as much as I would have liked and he never set any goals for our team.
Then came Brad and suddenly I had a manager who talked to me everyday and helped me out with stuff. Now I am heading back to working for a VP who has greater responsibilities than the old guy. While he has told me directly that he looks forward to working with us, I feel nervous about it. I’m just going to have to wait it out and see what happens.
