Over the summer my boss changed my job duties a little bit. He took away my student workers so I could have increased responsibilities with our customer relation software program and help train various departments on how to implement it. I always appreciate new opportunities but wasn't ecstatic about these changes.
This past month I applied for a promotion within my office. It would have moved me further into the marketing department and had more to do with our communication flow. My boss encouraged me to apply and the job description even seemed tailored to me. I went through the interview process and discovered that although the description was tailored to me, the types of questions I was asked and the needs stressed by interviewers seemed a little outside my past experience. Nothing I over my head or impossible to learn, but not my wheel house either.
A couple weeks went by with no news from my boss about the position. people are busy so I didn't push it. Finally he came by my office and let me down gently. Although I didn't get the position, he did want to let me know I was valued so he decided he was wrong to take away my student workers, so he gave them back to me and is going to remove the software duties from my job. I still get to do all of my social network duties and he is going to give me a new supervisor who will also supervise the position I was up for and didn't get so I will have an opportunity to learn more about our marketing operations.
My new supervisor is new to our office and he has a lot of experience and new ideas and knowledge about social networks - it is nice to have someone else who knows the technology I do and has ideas for advancing what we do.
So really...outside of more money (which everyone enjoys), I pretty much got everything I wanted.
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I love the title of this post. Sometimes you just don't know until you get it.
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