Yes but, I just found out that I’m so competent and trustworthy that since management needs to shuffle the supervisors around and the only way to make it work is to leave me in charge of the team for several hours without a supervisor. So now I’m looking at “we’d love to promote you but you’re just to valuable in your current role”. It a damned of you do, damned if you don’t situation.
Well the team is already WFH, but I am hoping that the job turns into a slight promotion and I will mention that during the next meeting with the department head. Also weighing my options with other parts of the company.
There’s openings in other parts of the company, though I do have it good otherwise in my current department so I will have to do some research this weekend. The major limiting factor for me is that I’m region locked due to family constraints. As for taking my team with me…there’s only one person I would want to take and he’s basically right where he wants to be, so he’s not leaving.
Yeah you just get to do the work of 3+ people as others get laid off and the workload shifted to you, until you can’t actually manage to keep up and then either get laid off or quit…
On the bright side being indispensable makes me impervious to layoffs.
I wish this was true
While it’s no guarantee, it’s true more sometimes than not
Yes but, I just found out that I’m so competent and trustworthy that since management needs to shuffle the supervisors around and the only way to make it work is to leave me in charge of the team for several hours without a supervisor. So now I’m looking at “we’d love to promote you but you’re just to valuable in your current role”. It a damned of you do, damned if you don’t situation.
You may be able to leverage that for benefits like WFH days or higher raises than rest of team.
Well the team is already WFH, but I am hoping that the job turns into a slight promotion and I will mention that during the next meeting with the department head. Also weighing my options with other parts of the company.
Best of luck!
Start applying for new jobs. Take your team with you.
There’s openings in other parts of the company, though I do have it good otherwise in my current department so I will have to do some research this weekend. The major limiting factor for me is that I’m region locked due to family constraints. As for taking my team with me…there’s only one person I would want to take and he’s basically right where he wants to be, so he’s not leaving.
Yeah you just get to do the work of 3+ people as others get laid off and the workload shifted to you, until you can’t actually manage to keep up and then either get laid off or quit…
Yeah that’s true. Never said anything about being happy. Or it being sustainable. Sometimes it’s all you can do to survive.