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Originally Posted by Betty
Wow. That's quite the turnover. Does his job really suck or something?
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No, that doesn't represent 11 people cycling through the same job while I stayed in one place.
The sequence was:
1. The guy who hired me was re-orged to another part of the company three weeks after I was hired.
2. I then reported to that guys boss for about six weeks while they figured out the new org.
3. They finally figured it out and I was given a new boss in between me and #2. Reported to him for about 2 months.
4. Then one of the projects under #3 (that I wasn't on) became super high profile and he was moved to just that and given a different team. So they hired on a new guy to take the place of #3 (still between me and #2).
5. About six months later #2 left the company, they reorged someone into his position and they put #4 under him and promoted me to be equal to #4 both reporting to #5.
6. I see bad things in store for our company and assuming an acquisition is in our future I know my position is less likely to survive so I transfer internally to a new position and a new boss.
7. Company collapses and we're acquired. #6 has no interest in continuing with new company and leaves as soon as they're willing to fire him. I now report to his boss.
8. #7 is cut in first round of official layoffs. I now report to a temporary manager from the old company (because HR isn't merged) but it is known that I will be retained. Technically I reported to this person for almost two months though I don't think I ever actually spoke to her.
9. I'm officially assigned to my new boss in the new company.
10. Six months later the new team is re-orged, I'm promoted to be equal to #9 and we both now report to his boss.
11. Today #10 announces his departure so at least for a while I'll be reporting to the person who was #10's boss. Since I doubt that #11 will want the four people who reported to #10 reporting directly to him for very long I imagine that #12 will be not to far in the future.
So only 7, 8, and 9 were directly related to the chaos of the acquisition.