Applied for a new internal position on Friday. In my current position, the work is interesting, but there is such an insane lack of respect from management about what I and my co-worker do that it makes everything feel terrible. We're on-call without officially being on-call (which means no on-call pay) and since we're salaried, we don't get overtime for those hours spent fixing shit on a Saturday afternoon in a hardware store using my phone, a VPN client, a SSH app to get into an endpoint to fix it while my wife gets paint mixed. Meanwhile, my manager has called out sick I shit you not, 20 times this year. It's unreal.
A position opened up in a different department, and it would be a promotion for me, so...I'm going for it. I know the manager and he is amazing, and the people on the team are super nice, too. I'm bummed to leave my co-worker behind because the best part of the my current job is working with him, but he insists that this is necessary to spur change for both of us.