Fighting Peter
Most of you are probably familiar with The Peter Principle, which is nicely summarized as "employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence." This is actually a nicer explanation than The Dilbert Principle, which says that "in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don’t want doing actual work."
With all that in mind, you can decide for yourself if it's a good thing or not that effective immediately my day job has promoted me from team leader to manager.
The net effect of this change is fairly minimal because my manager was promoted to senior manager at the same time. I still report to him and my team still reports to me. So to paraphrase something I told rshruti once, it's exactly like my current job but with more meetings. There's not an automatic pay bump either, although obviously the long term earnings potential is better.
Still, I'm happy to have gone from being the longest tenured team lead in the entire company to being the manager with the least tenure. We'll see what happens.
With all that in mind, you can decide for yourself if it's a good thing or not that effective immediately my day job has promoted me from team leader to manager.
The net effect of this change is fairly minimal because my manager was promoted to senior manager at the same time. I still report to him and my team still reports to me. So to paraphrase something I told rshruti once, it's exactly like my current job but with more meetings. There's not an automatic pay bump either, although obviously the long term earnings potential is better.
Still, I'm happy to have gone from being the longest tenured team lead in the entire company to being the manager with the least tenure. We'll see what happens.