Rock the Boat

Turns out I was right. Erik (my boss) put in his two weeks notice. His last day will be the 17th. Apparently he had been planning on leaving this year prior to Ty's departure anyway. That doesn't make it any less sad though.

I'm two for two in this respect. Joe has also put in his two weeks notice and will be leaving on the 17th as well. Go figure. Can I pick 'em or what?

In light of the newest change, I started thinking about if I would be interested in taking over his role. The more I think about it, the more I like the thought. I told our CFO I was interested after our meeting with management. The meeting was scheduled to be a task update and overview of things that needed done but turned out to be more a pep talk - and an effective one at that. I set up an appointment to chat with the CEO in detail about this.

Understand, I know nothing about managing people, but I get along well with everyone and I feel I could represent us without problems. I have done training and assigned tasks to others in the past though, so it can't be a huge stretch from what I have done in the past.

Today I discussed my interest in one of the team lead positions with the CEO. He was rather surprised to hear of my interest, and glad to hear what I had to say. However, he was frank with me (as I was with him) that with all we have coming down the pipe basically Jason would be the option they're leaning towards at the moment. I'm ok with that, but I have to admit the idea of putting managing team members on my resume (especially after only one year at this job) is rather appealing.