JMarkJohns wrote:My current regional coordinator is now engaged and wanted a shift in her job. She’s in discussions to become the Media Director and face/voice of the BBB in Southern California both English/Spanish.
She recommended me to be her Yuma/Imperial Replacement, so I took it to our CEO last week in our Yearly chat. To my surprise not only was our CEO on board, he said it was his and my actual Marketing Boss’ plan for about a year now that when the Region was opened, it was mine. No external search, only internal, and with my connections, there’s nobody internal who could beat me out.
The job requires PR, Media Skills, Budget Management, Event Coordination, Marketing, Sales, Photography, Social Media.
So, basically everything I did and taught for NAU before that trainwreck derailed.
It will see my base pay double, and I will be the lone sales executive which should net me about $20k on top of the base.
Nothing is ever final until it is, and I’m tempting fate posting this now, as I know these types of brags backfired with NAU, but this just feels different.
My guess is the Region will be mine by Christmas, or by next Summer by the latest.
Long ways off, but it could also happen by September, because the only thing holding this up is that Media Director position being created and my director moving.
But that’s her intent and the BBB’s intent.
Maybe it happens. Maybe it doesn’t.
But it felt really cool to have the best BBB CEO in the country tell me they always knew they had a perfect candidate in place for when the spot opened.
But, seriously, I had our County Philanthropist and Citizen Of The Year for 2018 tell me I’m the man who saved the BBB in our region. So, this reinforces that.
So, as always happens with me, this got weird, but in the weirdest of weird ways.
I had basically agreed to all of this over the summer, and it, at the time, seemed it would likely be happening very soon, likely by the fall. My then boss in the next few weeks broke off her engagement and then started to hedge on whether she wanted California at all. She started to try to dictate salary a bit too much and usage too often and, after 17 years including 8 as regional director, yesterday she was terminated so I am now I am “The Man” and I am still trying wrap my head around this. It certainly wasn’t the way I wanted this, and, it now puts me in the difficult position of explaining to people how the public and very pretty face of the BBB media side isn’t with the BBB anymore despite her tenure, while not slandering at all since she was popular and it’s a small community, but deep down knowing there were a ton of little and several decent sized things that built up to this and while timing hit from out of nowhere, a part of me is surprised it didn’t happen prior. I think they wanted to move her away from the day to day responsibilities that she seemingly had no interest in anymore (I have done half of them for 1+ years) into only media and when she balked at new role because pay increase wasn’t enough for a move, firmly told them her plans, and three days later was let go.
I feel bad, as she is a good person, but she’s become oddly erratic in day to day and efforts and even off-putting to work with or to our members, so, in my mind, this move is a year overdue, though I wished that media role had worked out. It was ideal for all parties and not sure why she didn’t accept the job considering she told everyone a year ago she was burnt out on this and needed a new scene.
