Not being released...
I have worked very hard and been a very dedicated employee in the department that I have been in for the last fourteen months. I now have an opportunity to go to another department where I will have the opportunity to progress faster and make more money in addition to being closer to home. The manager asked for me to be released but my Supervisor is holding me for ransome telling me that she will not release me until she gets a replacement for me which might be around May/June. What do I say to my Head of Department to get him to release me in the time frame that I want? In a word, you say nothing. It is up to your new boss to go fight whatever battles need to be fought to move you over. In the meantime, you should keep your mouth shut, stay out of it and not make waves or you won' t have a job in either department. My feeling is slightly different than yours, TM. If this is a position that you feel strongly enough about that you think that you may lose the opportunity if you are not released sooner than what your present boss is willing, then I say....talk to whoever is over his/her head. Explain the situation as you have; that you have this opportunity to move up and progress and you feel that by not being able to move right away you will not only lose the opportunity to better the company' s bottom line but you will lose the opportunity to better yourself. Also, enlist the assistance of the person who would be your new boss. It is possible, even, that your old boss and your new boss can get together and compromise so that you stay where you are but the new position is kept on hold for you when you are available. I don' t know how long you' ve been in the corporate world, but your advice is incredibly risky. It is not proper to go over your boss' s head. Even if you' re right, it ticks off your boss, annoys their boss and says that you don' t understand the proper protocol in business or your place in the system. That isn' t going to get you to where you want to be. And to say that your move is going to impact the company' s bottom line? Really, unless you' re in the C level (CEO, CIO, COO), that' s not reality at all and is only going to make this boss' s boss have a good chuckle at your exaggerated sense of importance. The current boss is saying that staying put is critical to THAT department' s bottom line, are you in a position to argue that? For the past ten years I have been in Public Service (government) and not in the Private Sector. It is common practice in many areas of the government to go after what you want with a vengeance. A good deal of that is because once the probationary period has been successfully passed and you are officially in government service it is next to impossible to be terminated. I was actually in a position eight years ago where everybody except for my immediate boss wanted me promoted and the ONLY person she would listen to was her boss. I went to her boss and six other people in the office came with me to appeal to her and have her talk to my boss. He did and my boss immediately posted my position with a temp agency so that I could start with my promotion. What I ended up having to do was train the temp and interview on the panel for my permanent replacement, train the replacement, learn my new job, follow up on my old job to make sure that projects I had left not quite completed were done. It was a lot of work for about 4 months, but absolutely worth it. That may work in the public sector where job protection is stronger, but not in the corporate world. Tess is right. It should be up to her new boss to work with the current boss, who has every right not to impact his department by becoming short handed. Going over her boss' s head send the message to both bosses that if you don' t get what you want you will make noise until you do. What boss wants someone like that working for them? What she should do is maybe suggest that she split her time between the two departments so that there is a compromise. But her new boss should carry that water, not her. | |
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