me: literally just doing the job I was hired to do in a fairly competent manner
some guy in C-suite throwing darts at an org chart: hey you're a cybersecurity professional now. Here's a new job title and new boss.
me:
hr: congrats on the mandatory reassignment! There is no raise associated with the position but if you work hard we might give you an office with a door. depending.
me:
me:
New boss: unlike your old position, this team doesn't pay for weekend on call and offers hazily-defined "comp days" instead of overtime. also we're massively behind schedule and about to release a new chunk of corporate middleware that's gonna affect about half a thousand people. we do have a quarterly pizza party and more remote days tho
me: do I get to keep my boot allowance
new boss: wtf is a boot allowance
