Started new job 2wks ago. Hiring manager resigned lastweek..

[HannsG]

Said manager is my reporting manager. He decided on a job nearer to home..

Unsure what to make of it really. New business, new area, new experience for me. And now this.

He was the main reason I decided to join also, depth of knowledge etc.
The reason I am slightly worried is because the department is under a massive amount of change st the moment. With so much stuff going on the role seems to be an uphill struggle.

Edited by HannsG on Monday 18th August 00:29

[DUMBO100]

I had the same experience recently and without a Commercial Director I now report to the Financial Director and we seem to have some very different ideas

[h0b0]

In 2004 I took a position in the US reporting to someone I knew well. The visa process took 4 months and one week before I relocated my new manager called me to let me know he was resigning. It made me question everything I was doing. In the end I felt I was too far down the road to back out. I'm still in the US and do not regret moving for a second.

[TurricanII]

I wouldn't read much into it. Do you have any prior knowledge of the company or the manager? They could have turned out to be **** to work for/with. Maybe I am slow, but two weeks into a new job I would still be trying to learn names never mind have worked out the pecking order in terms of knowledgeable people and whether the opportunity was good.

Three options are:
(1) look for a new job, being ready to explain why you have given the current job two weeks
(2) quit, omit the job from CV and look for a new one from a position of being unemployed
(3) you've got the job now.. give it a few months, make the best of it and make a choice then

[DJRC]

You took a job because of the hiring manager? Seriously?

I've never given a fk if the person who hires me was shot dead the next day so long as the bd gave me the job at the rate I wanted.

[Mojooo]

DJRC said:

You took a job because of the hiring manager? Seriously?

I've never given a fk if the person who hires me was shot dead the next day so long as the bd gave me the job at the rate I wanted.

A tad harsh, I get the OPs point - especially if the hiring manager has a lot of control over how you will do your job, or if you even have a job.

[DJRC]

Even have a job is the only important bit. So long as the job offer and job is still valid then that's the only important bit. Anything else is subject only to you last six months and then looking for a new job.

[londonbabe]

I've taken a job before just because I wanted to work with the hiring manager again after a pleasant experience working for them in a previous job when I was still starting out. I was hopeful that it would be the same kind of fun, but in reality it was a total disaster, the company was awful and bringing more experience this time round I came to realise that he simply wasn't a very capable or effective boss. He got fired 6 months in, and I resigned about 6 months after that.

I think my point is, never just take a job because of the people. Personnel change, but the job and the employer do not.

[Rich1973]

Have you applied for his job yet?

[davepoth]

Rich1973 said:

Have you applied for his job yet?

Quite. Don't see it as a problem, more as an opportunity.

[Pit Pony]

Get his contact details and after he's left email him and remind him that if he ever needs someone with your skills, he only has to contact you and you'll be happy to help him out. Then link with him on erm linked in and then enjoy finding out what makes your next new boss tick.

I once took a job, and found the manager very good, but after 3 months in there was a management bloodbath, and I end up working for someone whose first formal words to me were "When you came to the interview day, I was the lone voice saying that we shouldn't employ you, and nothing I've seen in the last 3 months has changed my mind" then he spent 6 months making my life a misery and managing me out the door. One of the other culled managers, picked up my CV, (from an agency) in his new job and employed me with hardly a blink. We became a really good team, and 15 years on we are still in touch despite that he now lives in the USA and I've moved on to contracting.