You’ve been around a while, and you are effectively the bus factor for your organization. You know everything there is to know or know exactly who does.
There’s just one problem: Your VP has more or less been pushed out. Or they quit. Maybe abducted by aliens. No matter what the explanation, you’re now confessing your sinsexplaining your challenges to a VP that weren’t expecting to report to.
Some time before the body is coldthe hiring process for a backfill can begin, you get a 1:1 invite from your director. The director says that they’re leaving for a new gig as well.
Good news, however, is that there’s no risk for having the same conversation with your manager because you don’t have one yet.
Congratulations! You’ve just been promoted to the temporary position of VPrectorer! There will be no additional money for the role, except the promise that if you don’t manage to screw everything up that you’ll get promoted to associate manager or whatever they call the “not quite a full manager” position.
Of course, if you fail miserably, you will have given a free preview of what will definitely happen if you actually get promoted.
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