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porteighty
7y

Ugh, fxk. I got a promotion, I'm now a team lead for 4 developers, and I fxking hate it.

They never asked me if I wanted the position, they just threw me into it this week. They ripped me away from the team I had great chemistry with and put me on this other team with people I have no connection with.

To make matters worse, I'm also responsible for production servers of the clients of this team, one has malware even.

On top of all of this, they made me move desks for a new developer to fill my spot.

How do you demote yourself? Why would a company want someone to perform poorly (on purpose, I don't care) than to just keep their employee happy?

/end rant

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  • 28
    7y
    See kids. This is what happens when you're a good employee.
  • 5
    7y
    Well, easy.
    Talk: ask for expectations, why do they think you can do this, challenges, your expectations.

    If you decide to keep it you will at least have a well defined goal.
  • 2
    7y
    @mundo03 I know the goal, I know my expectations, but I don't like how the company handled this and I also don't want to do this work. I just want to put headphones on and work, only help others when I can't focus
  • 4
    7y
    You could scope out a new job, and then tell your manager that you want to go back to what you were doing. Just make sure you have something lined up in case they call you on it.
  • 3
    7y
    They at least pay you more, right?
  • 6
    7y
    @SIMMORSAL ha, hahaha, a pay raise? Nonono. They only had time to tell me I'm switching when they kicked me out of my desk this morning.

    It seems their steps are:
    1) piss off employee
    2) give root access to production servers
    3) after 30 minutes, introduce to high priority client
  • 2
    7y
    @iAmNaN heh, not worried. Work in this city is very easy to find. Senior positions are a dine a dozen
  • 5
    7y
    @porteighty sometimes it's just a fall guy, not sure how bad your company is but my friend was a project manager for an engineering project that have overly high expectations, and once it failed they fired him. He was a graduate too so, it's not he really had the experience, I guess he does now though
  • 3
    7y
    @porteighty it sounds like you have some standing-up-for-yourself to do. Specially if you can easily find a better place!
  • 6
    7y
    Don't get me wrong, I'm not just ranting here, the company knows they messed up and I've made sure they heard my complaints.

    I'm the type of employee that you can give work to and never need to ask about it. You give a client direct access to me and I improve our client happiness scores. Servers are sweating and I hop online to assist if needed. None of this was being asked of me, I just did it because I cared about the work we do and the clients. I build better relationships between developers and clients.... But the company knows that and they used it to their advantage.

    Nice guys never win.
  • 5
    7y
    @porteighty everything you wrote in last comment are greenlights to asking for a raise. And one more reason to do so is that you are now "responsible" for those stuff.
  • 2
    7y
    All the best !!!!
  • 1
    7y
    Demand for huge raise. If they don't follow, all them to go back to your old job.

    Sucking situation :(
  • 2
    7y
    @lazydreamer welcome to devRant!
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