So Mike and his boss had agreed that Mike could move out of his manager role and become an individual contributor again. But months passed, and again, nothing happened. And Mike saw that nothing was going to happen, again. And Mike told his boss to forget it, that he would stay as a manager. Not because he wanted to, but because his boss wasn't going to do anything anyway, so it made her life easier if he just told her he would stay, so he did.
Year end came, and again, he got a good review, as always. But mid-year, his company decided to reorganize the department again, and his boss asked Mike to think about what role he wanted in the new organization. Mike thought about it and said that he wanted to be an individual contributor. A restructuring seemed like the perfect time to make a change.
This time, Mike's boss discussed it with her boss, so the word began to get out. When months passed and again there was no progress, Mike began to get agitated. At this point he was becoming concerned that he had essentially walked away from his manager position to the promise of another postion, but the new position wasn't happeneing, leaving him in limbo. He still had his manager job, but having said repeatedly that he did not want it, he was losing credibility in that position.
Meetings between Mike and his boss began to get very tense, but toward the end of that year, his boss told Mike that he could inform his staff that he was not going to be their manager after the reorganization, and he did. Mike's boss's boss also informed the management team that Mike was not going to remain as a manager. All of this happened about 17 months before Mike finally left the company, still in exactly the same manager position with the same staff and most of the same duties, and with no plans in place to make any change.
That year end, after years of getting above average reviews, Mike got an average one, and no raise. His attitude was cited.
Concluded in Part 3.
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