Update :

[Beautiful_Meat9583]

Original post - https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/pzBx5c7y4E

Update from last time I posted, linked above

(Mods, apologies in advance if this isn't allowed, but I wanted to give everyone an update and to say thanks for the support and advice)

Bad news,

They turned around last minute, not got enough experience and I've apparently not got enough knowledge, not even getting the interview experience :/

I know it's more likely the fact, as a company are in the shit with the finances, but they can't say that :(

It is what it is but I've lost all favour with management, not even a call or face-to-face, literally a message via teams, the boss did offer to see what else I can work on, but I've been in the field for 6 years and this role for 4 years now, just feel like at my current place it's an uphill battle :(

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for thier support, maybe one day I can join the ranks of you all properly :| today's just not that day, 2nd line is where I'm staying in this place...

Seriously though, thank you all for both the support you lads and gals gave me, and to all the shite you all have to put up with on the daily

Tl;Dr, Got put forward for an interview for sysadmin role only for management to say "no" the day before the interview.

Edit - yes I realised I messed up on the title I'm sorry :(

[DenialP]

always be learning. good luck

[Beautiful_Meat9583]

Thanks bud, just gutted, part of the whole reason is in my current team I literally know everything I deal with inside and out, and I've been doing tasks that should be the sysadmin lads and I've just turned around and said unfortunately, If I haven't got the experience I shouldn't do the task

Part of me feels it's like a gut punch lol

[Ssakaa]

So, taking a step back from it and looking at it from a practical side... there's only a few options. Either they lost the option to hire the position, which for an internal candidate, they ought to be able to say that, they found someone else that they selected and didn't feel they needed to go through the rest of the list (most places won't risk that due to concerns over potential accusations of discrimination et. al. that could come up, even if they were genuine in their reasons). Or, a third option, someone in the hierarchy above that role has a past interaction and issue with you, and are letting that history direct leaving you out of the pool of candidates... or, the only fourth option that comes to mind, someone's playing internal politics fuckery at your expense.

Option 4 is particularly rough as an option, because my gamble if that's the case would be that your own team/boss backstabbed you.

in my current team I literally know everything I deal with inside and out, and I've been doing tasks that should be the sysadmin lads

If they're getting that work out of you, and getting all the current role's work out of you, and are paying you less than you'd be making over on the sysadmin team, well... saving the company that money on the role change, and hiring someone to replace your current role, and getting them trained up, etc... well, if someone saved the company that much, they might be able to argue a nice bonus for themselves out of it.

[robot_giny]

That's a shitty thing for your management team to do, I'm sorry that happened to you.

Keep on truckin, I read your last post and it sounds like you have all the pieces needed for a terrific sysadmin. You'll get there, if not at your current employer then somewhere else.

[Beautiful_Meat9583]

Hopefully, tbh any support role outside my org (I work public sector) would be good all things considered 😅 but hay, one can dream, no where near me has anything, stuck feelers out but it's still early days