He brought me into a new role and new industry. He had many strengths and some weaknesses. He had been with our company for 6 years. He grew market share by 10%, undisputed market leader by a healthy spread. Management has unrealistic targets and he was a scapegoat. He had been promoted twice in those 6 years. They created a new award 3 years ago to reward him and that caught on with the rest of the company (so now each division has one winner each year). We butted heads many times in a constructive way. I learned a lot from him. I'm torn because management is looking to me to replace and they felt that they would be able to let him go because I was capable of taking over (at least that's what I'm told). If it could happen to him, they can easily just do the same to me. Mostly, today I felt like Mark Antony in "I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him". TL/DR; boss who i viewed like a bigger brother got fired, execs look to me to replace him, but I've got a very bitter taste in my mouth how it all went down.
i'm not very good at politics, i'm too honest to a fault most people respect me for it, i'm very capable but i don't engage in those tactics i know that's probably my weakness
we didn't hit our numbers, needed a scapegoat to show that changes were being made which everyone knew was bullshit from the start (in a market that's down 15%, we grew 8%, and it's still not good enough) his boss the division head should be the one that gets fired, but the guy is like a teflon don (everything deflects off him)
There will always be politics wherever you go. Try to be above the fray and you will get eaten up regardless if you don't want to be part of it. At the very least know enough to avoid the wrong end of the politics. Regarding your boss, if they set him up to fail in that role then be very wary. If it's because they didn't want to pay him his due then that's messed up. You really need to find out why they let him go before you take the job. In any case I say take the job, survive a year or two, and leverage that management experience to get the fuck out of Dodge.
I'd take the job, before someone else takes the position and you might have a boss you don't like. Maybe it'll give you more of a voice with the people higher up and give you a chance to tell them who you think really should have been fired, instead of your ex boss. How realistic is it that they'd fire you too, for similar reasons, if you take the job?
Take the promotion for the experience, hang in there for 6-12 months whilst looking for something better and then give your division director a nice big fuck you when you resign. Also when you do resign cook up some hard boiled eggs at home, make sure you slightly crack each one after it has boiled. Then take these natural wonders into your office and place them in strategic positions throughout the place where no one would ever think to look.
If there was a book of spite, I'd be the author. You don't like it? It harms no one.........at least physically.
