I’m an IT dept.Manager with 9 techs and a PhD. I work for a medium sized company and have been there quite a while. I’m on a first name basis with the owner and it’s the kind of company where employees and their family problems are important. We’re pretty successful and a larger company is preparing to buy us. They have an IT dept. with a manager but I don’t know if the increase in size and customer base will support 2 IT managers. I don’t want to quit as I’m pretty settled, familiar with our customers and their equipment. The larger company has already approached me with an employment contract offering me a hefty raise to stay. If I stay I’m afraid I’ll be downgraded to a tech or worse terminated once they’ve picked my brains.
If the customer base increases as they expect they may need two IT managers.(unlikely) Our businesses overlap with me being the communications engineer and IT mgr. and he being a computer engineer(non-degreed). At my age I don’t want to start over but I’m afraid once they’ve picked my brains I’ll be history.
Anyone ever been in this type position with advice to offer? This deal isn’t going to be complete till August 1, 2007 so I have a very little time. Thanks for your time and attention.
Jack