Sooooo ...
I'm now very afraid of work tomorrow. I was invited to a seemingly innocuous meeting with my VP and another director to discuss this project I've been working on and it's application to our business. Odd, because why would they need to meet with the VP about this? He's not really involved, certainly not from a technical perspective or from a project perspective. In fact, he has very little idea what is going on.
... but, I happen to know this project is very short on management and what I am dreading is that, if they want to co-opt me into project managing the sucker for the whole division, I may have no say in whether I'm assigned to this or not. It would be an utterly thankless job: hard, dragging on for the next 10 months or so, on a "feature" that no one (in marketing) in our division really cares about (it's a corporate initiative, aimed at improving our licensing technology. Woo hoo.) It would also suck up a lot of time. One could argue that there's the opportunity for visibility, coordinating a project across the division ... but I don't care. I don't want or need the visibility at this point, and I value my time significantly more.
Help?
Please, please, please no. I fear it is too much to ask that he will protect me as a resource working on projects related to our business. I really don't want to do this. :(