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Recently my boss left our group for a lateral position in another
department. He didn't really give us any indication that he was leaving,
until the day that he told us he was gone. About a week later, he and
his new boss offered me a position in their group.

It isn't a dream job. Not by any means. In fact, I'm sure I'd like it
less than the job I have now. The work is fairly boring, the fruits of
my labor would be small in comparison to what I do now, and, most
importantly, I would no longer be working with a team.

This alone, was enough to make me think it might not be a good idea.
However, where I am now isn't exactly a good spot to be in. I have a
boss who doesn't know who I am, and doesn't understand anything about
what I do. They work one floor above me, so I don't see her very often
either.

Last Friday, my main work computer decided that it didn't like
its harddrive any more and rejected it. I went to my new boss, who
wasn't there so I spoke to her secretary, in order to secure a new
machine for my needs. I figured, if I'm going to have to reinstall my
entire harddrive, I may as well upgrade my machine and get one of the
new 2.4Ghz machines that have been offered to me a few times (I turned
them down because I didn't have the time to move my stuff over). When I
asked them for a new machine they said, "sure, we can do that" and then
proceeded to tell me they would be giving me a 500Mhz P2. Ummmm… what?
I told them not to bother and scraped a new (to me) hard drive from
another machine that wasn't in use.

Last week, when looking at my name in the company directory, it
showed me reporting directly to the VP of our organization. This is
common when they are shuffling people around as, sometimes, the people
responsible for such updates don't know exactly where we belong when the
updates are being made. This morning, however, I find that, in the
directory, I am reporting to one of our VPs direct reports (as it should
be). However, the person I am marked as reporting to is NOT my boss.
This person does report to my VP, however.

The group that I am marked as reporting to is much more technical
than the group my boss leads. And this, normally, would be a good thing.
However, they are a, primarily, Windows based shop and the entire team,
save myself and the two employees that work with me, is in Florida. I'm
not afraid that they'll try to get me to move to Florida (and really
wouldn't mind if they did). However, I don't like the fact that they are
there and I am here. I also don't like the fact that no one bothered to
tell us anything.

Part of me would like to think that this is just a mistake, but it
doesn't seem that way. I'm going to go talk to my boss (or… who I
think is my boss) this morning to find out what's going on.

All of this is making me want to take the job in my old bosses group
even more. Coincidentally, the last day to apply for it, is today.