Promotion
I got someone promoted! This isn't my first rodeo, but at my current company, in the current climate, my hopes were quite dim. “It takes an act of God,” a fellow manager told me somberly.
But we got it done, and now a truly excellent employee and human is getting a well-deserved, highly prized award. Delivering this news to this person will be a highlight of my year and perhaps even my career at this company.
Being a manager is hard. But sometimes it’s great. This is one of those times.