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It's different in huge companies, if you can completely change departments, etc. In fact, in a lower-level example, when I worked for a casino in California when I went back to college, even a pretty small casino, I was able to transfer to three different departments to get better pay or better shifts, etc. The hiring process from within made it fairly easy to transfer to new jobs in different departments, and they even offered training, etc. In an environment like that, you can get the opportunities you are looking for, while actually staying with the same employer.
Yes, my employer has about 100,000 employees world wide. Its a large employer, so leaving this department won't hurt me. In fact, if you are in another position/department that doesn't use the software we manage, you've never even heard of us. I've tried to "kick it up a notch" by not only applying for a position, but then e-mailing the hiring manger expressing my interest and requesting a job shadow. This doesn't always work, but I have an interview Wednesday, so I am hoping I can get out of here.
While it's not the worst problem to have at work, I can understand how you feel OP. Being praised for sending an email could come across as pretty condescending. Is it possible that all/most of your co-workers are just largely inept? If that's the case, I could see where a manager, accustomed to having even simple tasks not completed properly, might feel compelled to say something.
I know a lot of these large companies also like to send their management teams to these silly workshops where they learn the latest about "effective leadership!", "how to motivate employees!" and so forth. Maybe he's been to one recently and is just gungho to apply all of his new-found "knowledge".
Or it may even be possible that your manager is incompetent and therefore actually impressed by your ability to complete simple tasks. Hard to say.
Just for the record, the Peter Principle was conceived by Laurence J. Peter.
And yeah leadingedge, an MBA would be a great addition to your credentials! Just understand that it would be your ticket into management, and doing things is often vastly more interesting than managing people doing things.
In my career I wanted to design the hardware, write the code, design the perfect creation! I found myself in management a few times and hated the people part of the assignments.
Hey, I just re-read your OP, and beware you may feel the same way about giving up the techie for the people stuff. With my Psych minor I love to study people, but telling them what to do really sucks for me.
Try being 61 and ready to retire. Totally invisible. Until some SHTF, then, oh boy they come looking for me.
That's how my career ended. Two fresh BSEE college graduates costs about the same is one expert BSEE with the ability to do the job once and get it right the first time, and in half the time it would take a fresh grad (not counting the second and third attempts by the fresh grad, and the crappy end design that barely works).
Hey since we're in the IT/engineering area here, anybody ever hear a colleague express the opinion, "Documentation? The code is the documentation!" (Their code didn't have any comments. My code had comments on all but the most trivial lines.)
"nice work on the switch!" I don't know why this part made me laugh out loud.
Perhaps you are like me: easily amused!
In some ways I lead a pretty crappy life but one aspect of my life that I really appreciate is that I am easily amused, and rarely bored. Admittedly I'm self-employed, work from home, and not in any hierarchy that relates to ego stroking.
ETA:
In a stroke of insight I just realized that one reason I post on this forum is because my "day job" requires little contact with people. I rely on the forum to satisfy some of that need.
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