I am an IT Manager for a automotive supplier. At the present I am heading a project team of 4 people (me, myself, I and another department head [equate the last to dead weight]) that is tasked with interviewing, evaluating and recommending potential ERP candidates.
As time has progressed, I have been commended on more than one occassion for the manner in which I am handling the project, by potential vendors. Last week I recieved an email from the owner of one of the companies/vendors we are looking at.
The company that I work for, though often a pain in the can about technology (I run the worlds largest peer to peer, complete with file server, AS 400 and inter-campus wireless arials, in short, my friends like to come by and gawk at my ability to keep it all running as well as my blood pressure, technically is shouldn’t be able to get this high) but it is secure and it is the technologists dream, you know, build it from the ground up (a domain that is) but being family owned, well, its family owned.
I’m a husband and a father. My current position is secure but a bigger paycheck with better benefits would be nice. However, it could all be a tactic to try and get through the door. I’ve heard horror stories about other techs who have nibbled only to have it dropped on their head in a back door meet between the vendor and management. Leverage, if you will.
So here I am. The offer is simple and to the point. A compliment with a tag line of “if you would ever be interested in a job…..”.
What do you think? What would you do in my shoes?