Principal

So far, today has been hectic at work. The announcement was made this morning. As of Monday I stop being software engineering manager and become a principal engineer. (This is the result of a chain of events I set in motion a couple of weeks back when I finally decided I'd had enough of being a manager.) I went out at lunch time to buy cake for a mid afternoon team gathering to celebrate my liberation - chocolate mud cake, caramel mud cake and coffee cheesecake.

The announcement of my successor took everyone by surprise and has left quite a few people feeling confused and some angry. The delivery of the announcement in a very succinct email, devoid of supporting reasoning, has almost ensured confusion and rumour-mongering. It's hard to distance myself from that problem. I still feel responsible for the way my boss announced the change. I shouldn't, but I do. I guess that's just part of my mental make-up.