Re: Can I Get Your Input Please

[Rick Langer <imborn4fun -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I believe you are correct in everything you state Mr. Kim-Eng. I do have one question that I ask in jest, how do I pay the bills if I sever all ties??  :-)   

I have some additional data for anyone following this thread, I was today  told my current manager was going to, if I was hired by the other department, block the move as he stated it was not a promotion and he stated I am in a critical position in his department. This after he tells me I do not know what I am doing and not a very good Tech Writer???  You cant make this stuff up!! 

Please keep the ideas, suggestions, anything you feel coming to the board, it is helping me very much to keep my head clear. I really appreciate all you talking with me.  Thank you!!!


--- On Wed, 5/7/08, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
> Subject: Re: Can I Get Your Input Please
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 12:47 PM
> This is my first impression as well from the situation
> as described.  The current manager is feeling personally
> slighted because the poster did not inform him of his
> interest in the other position.  
> 
> What you normally want to do in a situation where
> you're 
> contracting and have an interest in another position in
> the company is get some private time with your current
> manager, review any conversations you've had about
> possible direct positions with the company and mention
> that if your current position isn't likely to develop
> into a
> direct hire you are considering putting yourself in as
> a candidate for the other.  This gives your current
> manager a last chance to try to hire you, or to at least 
> bless your intent and provide you with an internal 
> reference.
> 
> Unfortunately, the manager in this case has reacted to 
> the contractor's faux pas in a decidedly unprofessional
> manner.  There really is no way to do "damage
> control" 
> or smooth the ruffled feathers of someone who allows
> personal feelings of affront to color his management 
> of his employees.  Unless this person already has a 
> reputation within the company for this sort of behavior 
> and the manager of the other position is prepared to 
> tell the current one to go pound salt, I would consider 
> the chances of getting the new position or retaining the
> current one to be irrevocably poisoned.  The best way
> to proceed is to sever your involvement with this company
> in the quickest and most professional way that you can.
> >From here things can only get worse if you stay.
> 
> Gene Kim-Eng
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> > Seems to me that the person was miffed -- this is my
> first reaction. 
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