I am now the boss!

Yes - I just got a major promotion. I went from the "low guy" on the totem pole and I was just made IT Department Head.

Very excited and a little bit nervous about all the new work coming on. I'm going to have to move away from the tech side and more into the management side of it all.

Oh, and not to mention I was promoted over the rest of the IT staff, some of whom have been here between 4 to 22 years. (Some are less-than-thrilled, obviously)

Hey - upper management told me where I was going - I didn't have much say in it! (oh yeah, and the fatty raise was nice too)

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Congrats Drew- watch your back! j/k
Anyway, if they felt you were the right guy for the job and you did it on your own merit the more power to you.

Kick back, relax. You're a manager now :)

Do you have a secretary now? if so, is she hot?

Good Luck in the job :thumbs:

Congratulations. Don't forget to thank Windrivers in your acceptance speech.

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Do you have a secretary now? if so, is she hot?

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drewmaztech walks up to hot secretary and kisses her...

It's good to be the boss... :p

Oh yeah, congratulations...

First order of business should be to equip all the office hotties with mandatory webcams. You could post up the pictures on Friday!

Workforce efficiency monitoring, blah, blah :)

Congrats! Now go be as nice to your employees as you wanted former management to be nice to you. :)

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Congrats! Now go be as nice to your employees as you wanted former management to be nice to you. :)

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Yeah, get them NICE webcams :)

Good for you!

On my first "official" IT job, I was put in place as netadmin, in charge of a crew of 3 level 1 techs.

Needless to say, the hostility was palpable from the more experienced staff.

Tip: let them know quickly that you can't make it without their help, their experience and that you're there to make their jobs easier. Worked for me.

Way to go Andy!! :p

At least you can enforce that rule now :D

Way to go on the promotion! Glad to hear you're moving up in the ranks.

:thumbs:

No secretary for me. I'm my own secretary - minus the implants.

Just LOADS more paperwork and more executives breathing down my neck.

I am soooo above fixing paperjams now.

WTG! Woohoo.

Bigtime congradulations! :thumbs:

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That's what you think now, but physical labour is always a possibility. :D


So, you going to start wearing your hair pointing straight up above your ears now and using "leveraging synergies" and "proactively engineernig low-risk high-yield sources and assertively customize timely paradigms"?

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That's what you think now, but physical labour is always a possibility. :D


So, you going to start wearing your hair pointing straight up above your ears now and using "leveraging synergies" and "proactively engineernig low-risk high-yield sources and assertively customize timely paradigms"?

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Wow, that is some serious "corp-speak!" :cool:

Dilbert's Mission Statement Generator all the way, baby. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif

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So, you going to start wearing your hair pointing straight up above your ears now and using "leveraging synergies" and "proactively engineernig low-risk high-yield sources and assertively customize timely paradigms"?

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*The corporate-buzzword detector on the wall starts smoking after that sentence*

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*The corporate-buzzword detector on the wall starts smoking after that sentence*

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I thought it was called the coporate BS detector... :confused:

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I thought it was called the coporate BS detector... :confused:

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Sorry, it's actually the "Management buzzword detector". :devil:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/04...ets_from_hell/

Congrats Boss Man.