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Good vibes... I think the meeting will go fine. Just try to stay as breezy as possible, take a deep breath and listen to what they have to say before you speak.

This situation is wholly unreasonable, and I hope it will turn out to be just a scare (an unnecessary and unfortunate one). I hope those guys with whom you work will push to keep you. It shouldn't all be on you to defend against this takeover. I know you'll do fine and it will all work out!

-- Edited by pollyjean23 at 17:09, 2008-03-04

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I think it will be fine! She might be intimidating, but you're definitely not going to lose your job over this. You love the guys you work for, and they love you. No one's going to fire you or make you quit because the people who you work for will want to keep you.

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Aww I'm sorry! I deal with office politics quite a bit and my advice would be to not go in there and bad mouth the potential new boss. I would just tell the CEO that you really like your current position, haven't been doing it very long and would like to keep growing. You feel that you are contributing to the team in a positive manner (and have received positive feedback) and feel it would be detrimental for you leave at this point in time.

If your CEO asks more specific questions about why you do not want to work for this potential boss I would try to avoid them and say its not just about her, but more that at this point you dont want to switch to any new role. I think bad mouthing (even if what you say is true!) someone, even if the CEO were to agree, could hurt you in the long run--especially since you are still fairly new at this company.

ETA:  I think it's really weird that they would have you speak with the CEO instead of your supervisor taking care of  it.  In my opinion that is what a supervisor should do.  However, that is beside the point and I just wanted to comment on that. smile

Good luck and let us know how it turns out!!

-- Edited by HeatherLynn at 18:11, 2008-03-04

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HeatherLynn wrote:

Aww I'm sorry! I deal with office politics quite a bit and my advice would be to not go in there and bad mouth the potential new boss. I would just tell the CEO that you really like your current position, haven't been doing it very long and would like to keep growing. You feel that you are contributing to the team in a positive manner (and have received positive feedback) and feel it would be detrimental for you leave at this point in time.

If your CEO asks more specific questions about why you do not want to work for this potential boss I would try to avoid them and say its not just about her, but more that at this point you dont want to switch to any new role. I think bad mouthing (even if what you say is true!) someone, even if the CEO were to agree, could hurt you in the long run--especially since you are still fairly new at this company.

ETA:  I think it's really weird that they would have you speak with the CEO instead of your supervisor taking care of  it.  In my opinion that is what a supervisor should do.  However, that is beside the point and I just wanted to comment on that. smile

Good luck and let us know how it turns out!!

-- Edited by HeatherLynn at 18:11, 2008-03-04


I agree with everything you typed Heatherlynn.  How weird that they are not having the meeting, are they afraid of her too lol?  I hope it all works out for you!  I believe that a big percentage of my job happiness comes from who I report to.  I get a bad boss and it doesn't matter how much I love the job, I just want to escape.


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Oh yeah, I definitely agree and would never badmouth the woman that wants me to work for her - that would only slit my own throat.  I don't plan on doing that.  HL, I think your advice to keep it more about me is good.  I also want it to be known that this is what happened at my last job, and one of the major reasons I quit.  I think that makes a point w/out saying "hey, I'll quit if you force me into this" w/out flat out saying that.

Everyone keeps telling me that it won't come down to me having to quit, etc, but I'm still really nervous about tomorrow.

Also, at first I thought that it was strange that I had to meet w/the CEO myself, but I don't have to.  It was suggested that I do, because frankly, I am the one one who can speak for myself.  My boss did let her know that I'm not happy about this, nor is he, and that we have concerns, but that I want to talk to her.  I think it will be best coming straight from my mouth.  My boss did speak his piece as well.

Thanks for the advice girls.  Please send me all your good vibes tomorrow morning!

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Oh, good luck tomorrow!  I agree that you should really stress how you do not want to switch roles because you are really comfortable in your current role and do a great job.  Let me know what happens!

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I just wanted to thank everyone who responded for the advice and support.  I just had my meeting w/the CEO and everything is fine!  I get to keep my current job.  I found out my boss totally went to bat for me and let her know I wasn't happy nor did I want to switch jobs.  Because of that, she totally backed down and told me I could stay where I was and she's sorry to have worried me at all smile

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Yay! Glad to hear it went well. It's nice to have a boss that will go to bat for you like a boss should!

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