Bosses boss asked me if I had a few minutes to talk..

then asked me if I wanted to take on a new lead engineer role within the company. So, I accepted! Should be a really fun position! Not a bad way to end the day!

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N2IT

Not at all! Gratz on the promotion/new role!

Mrock4

Thanks N2IT, pretty excited. It's not the first time I'll have been a lead, but there's a lot of opportunity in my company (whether that be going to management, straight sales, training, etc), so I'm hoping this will springboard me into a more visible position, and ultimately push things along with respect to my goals.

Iristheangel

You are the man! Congratulations!!! Teach me everything you know!

NotHackingYou

Congratulations!!

Master Of Puppets

Congrats, it's such a awesome position!

Asif Dasl

Congrats on the new position!!

nerdydad

Mrock4 wrote: »

then asked me if I wanted to take on a new lead engineer role within the company. So, I accepted! Should be a really fun position! Not a bad way to end the day!

Congrats, did you ask them to wait to add the additional responsibilities until after August?

Zartanasaurus

Iristheangel wrote: »

Teach me everything you know!

We already know how he racks servers.

xocity

Congrats!

tpatt100

Good news!

I usually assume the worst when somebody asks me if I have a few minutes to talk lol

jibbajabba

Zartanasaurus wrote: »

We already know how he racks servers.

Perks of promotions

FloOz

Congrats Mrock!!

the_Grinch

Congrats! Definitely not what I thought this post was going to be about!

lsud00d

Congrats Mrock!

Mrock4

Thanks everyone! I have already been doing a couple of the duties of a lead, so it really won't be much of a change in that regard, but I'm sure there will be a slight additional load. Hopefully not too much due to the lab attempt nerdydad alluded to!

I do appreciate the "congrats" from everyone- I quite honestly expected the worst as I rarely talk to this guy. First thing tht came into my mind was "who did I tick off?"

the_Grinch

In situations like that, it has always amounted to three things:

1. I ticked someone off
2. Someone is being fired
3. Being asked to report in on a boss or my team

dave330i

Congratulations. I assume there will be an associated raise?

Mrock4

the_Grinch wrote: »

In situations like that, it has always amounted to three things:

1. I ticked someone off
2. Someone is being fired
3. Being asked to report in on a boss or my team

lol! My list of expectations in this situation are somewhat different:

1. I ticked someone off
2. Someone is being fired
3. I am being fired

Mrock4

dave330i wrote: »

Congratulations. I assume there will be an associated raise?

There is, but I would have taken it without one..our organization is really great, but I think the lead position is really a great role, although time will tell. Our lead position is a bit different than typical lead roles- my last was more managerial, where this one is more of an advocate for training, promotions, etc- they're looking for someone who pretty much be a voice for the engineers, and keep morale up by maintaining good relationships with the engineers. We all work remotely, so we rarely work side by side- so one of my big functions is going to be bringing a sense of "team" to a distant workforce..which should be fun.

cgrimaldo

Congrats!

Psoasman

Congrats!

SteveO86

Awesome, congrats man!

Zartanasaurus

So what you're saying is, there's an open position where you work?

JasonIT

LOL +1 for Zart

Congrats!

J

Essendon

Awesome, Mike!

Mrock4

Thanks guys

Zartan- technically no! This is a new role..prior to this we had ~20 R&S engineers answering to one manager, and now we're going to have 5'ish engineers answering to one lead (who is on the same team), and then those leads report to the manager. On a side note, I am ALWAYS willing to refer TE members to our company (we'll split the bonus

) as long as they're qualified. We have positions all around the U.S.

I got my "welcome to being a lead" message loud and clear today..I was supposed to head home this weekend (staged a bunch of gear for a multi-million dollar project in CA that we're deploying next month)...and be home for a few weeks, and got told I'm off to Miami for a project there that requires some R&S design skills. As soon as I'm done there, back to Cali to deploy this huge project. Fun times..

Chitownjedi

Congrats!

wweboy

tpatt100 wrote: »

Good news!

I usually assume the worst when somebody asks me if I have a few minutes to talk lol

Same here last week my boss pulled me aside and sits me down in a conference room conversation goes like this

Him: So you think your in trouble for something huh?
Me: Not really but I wouldn't think so
Him: (Laughs) ... We're here to discuss .... Your raise.

Man my boss kicks ass

my point I always, ALWAYS assume the worst.

WiseWun

Congrats! How would your peers feel about this promo? Do you do consulting on the side? I must've read this on another thread.

Mrock4

I'm a consultant full-time with my company, so this will be an additional duty. As to how my peers will feel- that is still to be determined since it hasn't been formally announced to the team. I haven't been with this company long, so I expect some level of skepticism, but in my past lead roles and current I made my team's professional development (certs, training) my #1 priority (often over my own)- so if there are any skeptics, I can hopefully win them over through time. In all fairness though, I'm not exactly brand new either, so I've worked with most of them in some way or another.

For this position I had to interview with 8 team leads (we have leads for UC, Wireless, data center, R&S, etc), and one question I got was "how do you gain the trust of your team?" My answer was "Well, trust is obviously earned, and I think at it's most basic form, trust is earned by doing what you say on a consistent basis, and keeping the team's needs high on the priority list." My answer still hasn't changed, so hopefully I'm right and that's how it goes!