Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
@WORK. I can even expressed how pissed off I am right now. I didn't sleep at all last night. I just layed there in bed with all these thoughts running through my head. I guess I should back up a little bit with the story here. My group is going through a reorganization that is being officially announced today. I found out last Monday when my manager told me about what was going on. I've been waiting for this reorg because I was going to be the one to take over the data warehouseing group. Well as it turns out, thats what my conversation was on Monday. My manager pulled me aside to tell me that the only person who is senior to me has all of a sudden decided he wants to move into management. I was given the opportunity to still express my interest for the position which was almost guaranteed to me just a month ago. The other choice offered to me was to step back and let my peer take the position. I was pretty much told without so many words that even if I did still express my interest it was going to go to my peer because he had helped my manager build this team in the beginning. So with all that to take in and having to give an answer right away, I said I would bow out and let my peer take the position. So now a week later I'm steaming. In some ways I feel like I just got knocked down a level because all this time I was being treated as a senior lead and had a say in the direction of the team with the anticipation that once the reorganization happened I would take over. Now all that's changed. I'm now going to have to report to my peer and my entire group is under a reorganization that really leaves my future here hanging.
So ... I'm awaiting the big announcement. I've posted to another position here within the bank and hopefully that will work out. I've also posted my resume on Monster.Com again and I'm going to take a look at some other postings today. I really don't want to leave the bank because I like the benefits I have here, but I'm just not sure if there is any room for growth in this company being here in Phoenix.
