Welcome to Initech

I had a job interview this week. It was for a different job in the same department at the same company.

I suspected that some of what the hiring manager wanted out of this role was stuff I’ve already been doing.

Turns out that although there’s more to it than what I’ve been doing, she had no idea a lot of the stuff I do was being done by anybody or who it was being done by if it was being done at all. In most of the department, those are things that fall under her team’s remit. So she decided to create a new job for somebody to come in and do those things.

Basically, if I get that job (and it sounds like there’s at least a reasonable chance I will) then I will get to do more of the part of my job I like and less of the part I hate. If I don't get that job it will be for one of two reasons. Either it means they've figured out that they don't need to hire me to do a job I already do, or it means there's a reason they're advertising my job.

Sigh. Welcome to Initech. Nothing is ever simple.