It doesn’t quite seem real yet and part of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop, but – pending approval by the board – I got promoted.<\/p>\n
It started back in June with a 13-page position audit request form. It was a terrible document – perhaps the worst I’ve seen on campus in my 19 years there. At one point, while trying to complete this, it occurred to me that I could just quit my job right then and I wouldn’t have to continue it.<\/p>\n
It was that bad. \u00a0Really bad. \u00a0Like soul-crushing. Maybe even intended to be so bad that people don’t complete it.<\/p>\n
Instead, I got it done and we got it revised and edited – then signed by everyone in the multiverse and submitted to HR. And then we waited several weeks.<\/p>\n
HR wanted to meet with me and go over the document that – based on the questions I was asked – they didn’t really look at carefully. That meeting seemed to go okay and then it was more waiting. Like, months.<\/p>\n
Finally, my boss got word that the new position had been approved. Again, everyone had to sign off on it and it was a bit before he made the announcement to the rest of the team. Who were all, fortunately, pretty cool with it. Eventually, I got an email from HR with the details – which raised more questions that I’ll need to figure out on my own ’cause I’m pretty sure my reply email is being ignored.<\/p>\n
A new nameplate has been ordered for my door and the online directory has been updated. Not sure what I’ll do about business cards – I use so few of those it hardly seems worth updating.<\/p>\n
It took a long time and I kinda figured it wouldn’t happen, but – again, pending board approval (hopefully in February) – I’m now the Assistant Director for Web Services at the University of Akron.<\/p>\n
Go me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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