So yesterday I got had a sit down with my soon to be manager and his boss because HR fucked up my transition massively.

At this point I've been on my new team for a week doing training stuff and taking on deployments and stuff but now my pay raise, position title change and reporting structure doesn't become office until June 1st. No back pay.. why? HR forgot about me then the person managing all that for my new org quit.. and two weeks before my transition date a new person was hired who knew nothing about and thus was shocked when hiring manager for my new role was like "So Sam starts in two weeks, are we good with everything for this transfer and role change?"

Background:
In our cloud ops we have two separate organizations that break down into various teams.
Infrastructure Ops which primary deals with physical stuff, our private cloud side and Product Ops which primarily deals with our Public Cloud stuff.

So on May 6th I transferred from Ops-Eng (combination of NOC, traditional datacenter ops/site ops and sys-admin) on the Infra-Ops side to ProductOps (AWS mircoservices architecture team now also soon to be supporting Azure as well..)

The ProductOps manager filed all my transition paperwork with HR back in Feb of this year, a week before my new team leader approached me to gauge my interest in moving teams. (I'd been one of the original founding members of Ops-Eng, Lead Engineer on it for almost two years and plateaued pretty hard in terms of advancement without changing teams but because I worked 2nd shift and most of Infra-Ops was on the east coast while I was on the West Coast it made getting experience with other teams I could potentially move to all but impossible)

Obviously I said yes because moving into an SRE role is pretty much the only path of advancement left unless I wanted to move into a management role. (Honestly, I like getting work done.. not sitting through meetings)

So things become official in the since that my transfer is happening but we don't have a date yet because backfills neat to happen and HR/Finance still have to approve everything and Ops-Eng has to find someone to work 2nd shift etc. This happens at the beginning of April.

Mid-April we have worked out deadlines for everything (so I stop taking on projects, focus on wrapping up everything I'm working on in order for me to start new role on May 6th).

So May 6th roles around. I show up in the office (gasp from local ops guys because I wfh a lot while on Ops-Eng because my entire team was remote. I sit with my new team)

And nothing from HR.

A week passes.. nothing from HR.

Yesterday I went to request some pto to find I can't.. because I have no supervisor to approve it in our tracking system.

so we contact HR and surprise they still haven't finished filing my anything.

Despite pressure from my former boss (who is waiting on a backfill req to be approved for me.. a week after I left his team) and my current team leader and his manager.
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Finally HR relents and files everything to become official but because Wed is payday.. guess what.. the earliest my promotion etc becomes official is June 1st and no finance will not let them back date it or back pay me.