Promoted
Well I got promoted at work, I am now the ‘Manager’ of my small team of four. This isn’t the first time I have managed a team but I was still feeling a bit hesitant at the prospect when my Boss first mentioned it.
You see I have a very aggressive nature, or more accurately ‘passionate’, I have very little tolerance for slackers, especially when they hold up progress of something I am responsible for. In today’s caring and shrink wrapped employment world a Manager is meant to be caring and considerate to mitigating factors… where as I normally just end up ranting a lot and wanting to fire said slacker 
Thankfully I have been saved from worry on two counts, firstly my team is good, technically and on the most part, socially. Secondly I am primarily responsible for directing the systems solutions and day to day priorities and can defer the personnel issues to my Boss where needs be. So all is good!
Of course this means changes for me… I need to crack my morning problems and get my arse into work on time (this has been getting slowly better), I must stop breaking the dress code and try and lead by example. I also guess I should put some after-hours effort into planning, to make sure I don’t make a complete tit of myself and my team
So is this my first step towards responsibility and resultant loss of technical expertise, or a one way trip to oblivion… time will tell.
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