Today started just out like any other day at the office - stressful and full of things that need to get done. However, what made it different was that my boss and his boss who have side by side desks had a more escalated argument than usual which ended up in a couple FU’s going around and my boss packed up his stuff and quit.
So now as a result, I am now still a Office Production Assistant, but I am now an assistant to the Unit Production Manager, which to my understanding, is the boss of my former boss’ position, the Production Coordinator.
I definitely felt like I was in the middle of a domestic dispute or something when they were going off at each other. Now, I’m not from a divorced family so I can’t truly compare but it definitely felt like the type of thing where the Mom and Dad of the office were flipping out, deciding this was an unlivable situation, and the Dad up and leaving the family behind to deal with it on their own.
Anyone else been in similar situations?
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:45 am
Well, I have a crazy knack for working for people who promptly leave the company after I arrive. Two summers ago my boss was hired by Google and left half way through the summer. Last summer, my boss got a kind of promotiony thing that meant he wasn’t going to be in the group anymore.
But there wasn’t any screaming and yelling going on, both cases were kind of celebratory for the people involved. I will say that having to work for someone else abruptly is a challenge, but not that bad.
Good luck with your new job situation …
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Congrats on your promotion!
August 17th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
When I worked at Columbia two summers ago, the lady who ran the division and hired me left within the week, one of the other developer guys left shortly thereafter, and then my boss left towards the end, meaning that my friend and I were at that point making all the decisions about the web site we maintained.
And we got on-the-clock paid-for going-away dinners each time.