My boss has gone on holiday this week (and next week), and I’ve been left in charge.
Being the boss seems to involve gathering status information, writing it down and presenting it to some other bosses and business customers. Due to dependencies with other teams, it also involves a lot of getting them to provide status to me, so I can write that down and present it.
There’s also a lot of meetings and conference calls.
As a long term (mostly contract, but went permie 12 months ago) techie, I find all this a bit too much. I’ve done nothing techie all week :( I probably won’t do anything techie next week either.
My boss: please come back.
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It makes you wonder if all these meetings are actually needed.
Welcome to management. I didn’t really like it the last time I did it, and don’t really like it now. If you manage a small enough team, you can do techie stuff.
My attitude in future is to say “If there is an immediate 15% rise in salary, then yes. Otherwise no” Then at least I’ll feel all that boring stuff is compensated.
I hear you. Although in this case, it’s the managing of the project that’s onerous, not so much managing the team.
Besides, the team just got smaller by one today (20%) so asking for a 15% rise might be not be doable.
It’s taking 100% of my time now. I haven’t fired up an IDE in over a week
Oooh - are your lot firing people too?
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