Just venting, possible advice needed.
I'm a Senior Engineer with a large, multinational chemical company. The previous Principal Engineer left the company 2 years ago. We also lost 2 other Senior Engineers within that month to transitions, so I was doing the work of 4 people. It took 10 months before 2 replacement engineers were hired and complete training. I was the only person on call, weekend and nights during that time, including Hurricane coverage during 2 storms (near miss, thankfully). Since then, I've started taking on the Principal Engineer's tasks and leading an LSS Black Belt project. None of which is in my job description.
When I agreed to the BB project and the Principal Engineer's tasks last October, I told him I expected a promotion to Principal Engineer. 2 weeks ago, during our one-on-one meeting, I reminded him of the tasks I had accepted and the promotion. He said he put my name in for promotion, but couldn't give me a timeline. Yesterday, he grilled me on my BB project. Timeline, what the expected savings were, etc. It wasn't a casual conversation, or a typical catch-up conversation. It was rapid-fire, question after question, like he was looking for holes in my project or looking for excuses not to support my promotion.
After sleeping on it, I set up a meeting with HR to find out if he even put my name in the hat for promotion and what the expected timeline is. I'm fully prepared to demand a transition to another department and start over as senior engineer, and immediately squash my BB project and Principal Engineer duties if he lied about putting me up for promotion, in addition to kicking this higher up the ladder. If denied promotion, I for damn sure am dropping the BB project and PE duties.
Just frustrated and feel like I'm being strung along.