- Sep 11, 2019
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- Country
- United States
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- Male
- Faith
- Baptist
- Marital Status
- Single
Hello everyone!
I wanted to ask people's thoughts on this job related issue. Basically I am an IT guy for a company that has 7 offices across the state that I live in. This company has offices around the entire US and has an HQ in another state, but I only support the employees at offices in my state. Awhile ago, my manager, the regional IT manager was fired for being incompetent and never showing up for work. When that happened, I was given a "dry promotion". I was given all the responsibilities and duties of the IT manager, while receiving no title or pay increase. It's also worth mentioning that I'm now the only IT guy for my entire state.
I was obviously bothered by this, and arranged for a series of meetings with my mangers and HR. The first meeting resulted in them telling me that they were short staffed so I had to pick up the slack and help the team. The second meeting was a lot of vague corporate jargon that did not tell me anything. The third meeting was them confirming that they would not be hiring anyone else, besides a guy from another state who's office had been downsized, and would temporarily help me if I needed anything. He's entirely remote. Given the nature of the job, there's very little he can do being remote, so since then, I've been the primary point of contact for all IT stuff in the entire state.
Now what I thought it was fair to do since I'm doing all the duties and responsibilities of the IT manager, was to change my job title and description on Linkedin and my resume to better reflect it. My career focus is trying to get into IT management, so having this on there would help me. I don't personally see any issue with it as it more honestly reflects the work I do. However my wife thought it was a bad idea and makes me look bad to future employers. She also said it could be sinful. Obviously if I were in a job interview, I would explain the whole situation, but not having that on there would likely prevent me from getting an interview at all.
I am wondering what people's thoughts are on this. I understand it is likely a gray area. My view is more based on the motive behind it. I'm not trying to be deceitful, just trying to showcase what I actually do and what my experience is.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
I wanted to ask people's thoughts on this job related issue. Basically I am an IT guy for a company that has 7 offices across the state that I live in. This company has offices around the entire US and has an HQ in another state, but I only support the employees at offices in my state. Awhile ago, my manager, the regional IT manager was fired for being incompetent and never showing up for work. When that happened, I was given a "dry promotion". I was given all the responsibilities and duties of the IT manager, while receiving no title or pay increase. It's also worth mentioning that I'm now the only IT guy for my entire state.
I was obviously bothered by this, and arranged for a series of meetings with my mangers and HR. The first meeting resulted in them telling me that they were short staffed so I had to pick up the slack and help the team. The second meeting was a lot of vague corporate jargon that did not tell me anything. The third meeting was them confirming that they would not be hiring anyone else, besides a guy from another state who's office had been downsized, and would temporarily help me if I needed anything. He's entirely remote. Given the nature of the job, there's very little he can do being remote, so since then, I've been the primary point of contact for all IT stuff in the entire state.
Now what I thought it was fair to do since I'm doing all the duties and responsibilities of the IT manager, was to change my job title and description on Linkedin and my resume to better reflect it. My career focus is trying to get into IT management, so having this on there would help me. I don't personally see any issue with it as it more honestly reflects the work I do. However my wife thought it was a bad idea and makes me look bad to future employers. She also said it could be sinful. Obviously if I were in a job interview, I would explain the whole situation, but not having that on there would likely prevent me from getting an interview at all.
I am wondering what people's thoughts are on this. I understand it is likely a gray area. My view is more based on the motive behind it. I'm not trying to be deceitful, just trying to showcase what I actually do and what my experience is.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
