They all seem to be HR related issues today.
- I’m now a Project Manager…. well, officially for once ! .. yay … looking forward to the extra challenge and discipline that will be required. This is also helping me to settle into a management perspective in the work world.
- Onto the big(ger) thing. I contact my HR manager a week ago about my new job. Basically I asked for a job role/description so that a)I had an understanding of my role and b)Could start the process of negotiating my new salary. Now, imho, that’s not too much of a major drama. I work on e-mails all day, if I don’t see a response to something, I follow it up.
Now when my HR manager contacts me, she sounds freaked out, offers me my old job back and sounds ‘concerned’ about my assumption that before I start my new role that i’d expected to be offered a job description. I try not to laugh whilst explaining that my request was for information(!), not a wartime appeal for assistance.
She finally gets around to telling me that my new boss will assist in defining my new role (why she didn’t just e-mail me and tell me this i’ll never know!), and now i’m left feeling like i’ve tried to hold [insert company name] to ransom over the whole issue. Especially after she informs me she’s spoken to the CIO who offered me my previous job back. (and i’m guessing it wasn’t in the most polite of fashions either!)
The same CIO who gave me a PM position yesterday. The job that I want to take on because i’ve done it before. A job that I like. A job that will challenge me. A job that will keep me with the company.
I hate stressing about this shit. I’m anal and pedantic, and yes, I expect a job role/description to be forthcoming when i’m ‘leading’ staff in an official sense as opposed to managing them whilst in my own role (ie - toothless tiger).
Or better still, just e-mail me and tell me ‘it’s coming soon’ with a basic explanation……
Is that too much to ask or am I being completely unreasonable?
ed: See my more recent post… i’m being completely unreasonable! 
