ha98ed14
05-10-2011, 02:42 PM
Nice problem to have these days, I know!
My BFF has been offered a new job; she countered asking for more money and is waiting to hear what they have to say. But even if they come back and say, the original offer is the best we can do, she is still gonna take the new job. The problem now becomes how to leave her current one of 5 years.
The dysfunction of this current office would make your head spin, but the quick and dirty is that she works at a Univ in a high ed admin office directly serving students. The director of BFF's office, (call her C), is a manipulative b!tch who will move between on the extremes of having no idea what her staff is doing for weeks and then randomly demanding detailed work plans from everyone and micromanaging random aspects of their projects. (She does this to everyone, not just my BFF.) C feels threatened by other professionals in her office and does everything in her office to keep them down. She takes credit for their work when they are recognized by colleagues within the higher ed administration community of professionals.
Six months ago, another professional from my BFF's office (call her R) took a job at another college within the same university system. R had negotiated her start date and given C a month's notice that she was leaving. C actually called up R's new supervisor and told him that R would not be available to start for another 6 weeks. R's new boss agreed! I am not completely clear on why, but perhaps because R's new boss and C are in the same position, just at different schools, and the political fall out of stealing a worker would have been too great. But the point remains the same; what C did was entirely inappropriate. It was up to R to negotiate her new job. C should have NO SAY in the matter! R gave a month's notice, which is more than professional courtesy demands.
This brings me to my BFF. BFF is also moving to a corresponding office at a 3rd school within the system, but into a higher position. We are desperately afraid that C will do exactly what she did to R. The only ray of hope is that there is no one in a directly parallel position to C or R's new boss at the 3rd school where BFF is moving, so to pull what she did to R,C would have to call the provost, which is a higher position than C.
So the question is, How much notice does BFF give? She does NOT want to burn bridges as she will be possibly seeing colleagues from her current office at future meetings, conferences, etc. She might even have to work with them on univ. system-wide projects. But at the same time, BFF does not want C to be able to manipulate her fresh start in her new job. C is like a specter that reaches out from beyond the grave to make life he11. But if C wanted to, she could possibly do the same thing to BFF that she did to R by going to the provost of the 3rd univ. She might have that much political clout; we are not sure. Given all that, how much notice would you give? Is there anything BFF can do to prevent being under C's thumb in the matter of changing jobs? FWIW, once BFF is out of there, she never has to report directly to C again.
My BFF has been offered a new job; she countered asking for more money and is waiting to hear what they have to say. But even if they come back and say, the original offer is the best we can do, she is still gonna take the new job. The problem now becomes how to leave her current one of 5 years.
The dysfunction of this current office would make your head spin, but the quick and dirty is that she works at a Univ in a high ed admin office directly serving students. The director of BFF's office, (call her C), is a manipulative b!tch who will move between on the extremes of having no idea what her staff is doing for weeks and then randomly demanding detailed work plans from everyone and micromanaging random aspects of their projects. (She does this to everyone, not just my BFF.) C feels threatened by other professionals in her office and does everything in her office to keep them down. She takes credit for their work when they are recognized by colleagues within the higher ed administration community of professionals.
Six months ago, another professional from my BFF's office (call her R) took a job at another college within the same university system. R had negotiated her start date and given C a month's notice that she was leaving. C actually called up R's new supervisor and told him that R would not be available to start for another 6 weeks. R's new boss agreed! I am not completely clear on why, but perhaps because R's new boss and C are in the same position, just at different schools, and the political fall out of stealing a worker would have been too great. But the point remains the same; what C did was entirely inappropriate. It was up to R to negotiate her new job. C should have NO SAY in the matter! R gave a month's notice, which is more than professional courtesy demands.
This brings me to my BFF. BFF is also moving to a corresponding office at a 3rd school within the system, but into a higher position. We are desperately afraid that C will do exactly what she did to R. The only ray of hope is that there is no one in a directly parallel position to C or R's new boss at the 3rd school where BFF is moving, so to pull what she did to R,C would have to call the provost, which is a higher position than C.
So the question is, How much notice does BFF give? She does NOT want to burn bridges as she will be possibly seeing colleagues from her current office at future meetings, conferences, etc. She might even have to work with them on univ. system-wide projects. But at the same time, BFF does not want C to be able to manipulate her fresh start in her new job. C is like a specter that reaches out from beyond the grave to make life he11. But if C wanted to, she could possibly do the same thing to BFF that she did to R by going to the provost of the 3rd univ. She might have that much political clout; we are not sure. Given all that, how much notice would you give? Is there anything BFF can do to prevent being under C's thumb in the matter of changing jobs? FWIW, once BFF is out of there, she never has to report directly to C again.