Since I’m moving to a new job within the same company, my current manager and future manager had to duke it out to determine my transfer date. I had no say, of course. My current manager made the case for holding onto me for as long as possible. They want to use me for all of my Microsoft Access goodness while they still can; it’s highly unlikely they’ll fill the position with a financial analysis associate who has any clue how to create databases, especially the VisualBasic stuff they want me to do.
Seriously, people get paid $75/hour to do that kind of work around here, if not more. I don’t.
Regardless, I have to grin and bear it until I return from California on April 24.
Get used to it. The group I run is sort of an “entry level” to the rest of IT. Anytime we get someone talented in, people fall all over themselves to pull them into their group if there’s an opening. And we usually lose out, scrambling to fill a void left when the person leaves our group because we weren’t offered enough time to train someone new. Here’s what I’ve discovered: three people who know how to pull metrics (statistics that give the executives warm and fuzzy feelings) are more important than thirty people who actually provide 1st level server support for all the company products.
If you know how to make a pie chart, you’ve got a future in my company.