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Our guidance on, I didn't get the title or raise.

Part two.

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And that's kind of like leads into our next point, which is the email thing is the kind of terms of let your boss make the decision and when that kind of information is being communicated like when they actually put a manager, official position there.

But in the interim, you can't make an issue of it immediately, right?

You think you ought to be in the primary role.

You're in the acting role.

Like the last thing you want to do is make an issue of it right away.

Yeah, look, if your boss asked you to take over a management role, and again, whether you're a manager or not, so if you're a manager you become a director, although I'll say it again, there are too many organizations in the world that have successfully inflated the titles of manager and director and now particularly in technology organizations.

Everybody who's a manager is called a director.

For the record, guys, years ago and in more old line companies

director meant manager of managers. Don't assume if you see it. If you're a

consumer products company and you're looking at a tech guy and you see he or she as a director, you think,

oh, manager or managers, that's good. No, that doesn't mean that.

Now, let me be clear. Let me give an example of what I mean by making the shoot immediately.

If I'm working for Joe, right? Joe reports to you, Mark.

Right.

And Joe leaves, for whatever, he takes a different job in the organization, he leaves.

So you're my skip. At this this point Joe's between you and me.

You report to Joe, Joe reports. And you come to me and say, hey Mike, Joe's left, I like you to kind of step in as a,

I like you take over responsibilities in an acting role for now.

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