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Please Don't Talk To My Associates
Feb. 4th, 2005 08:12 amWork hasn't been everything it's cracked up to be for the last week. Of course, I'm sure I'm sounding like many of my LiveJournal brethren by saying that, but this last week has been particularly bad.
Tuesday, I found that several things had shifted under my feet, from just being out on Monday. It's always fun to find out that you are out for a day, and your boss comes through and starts telling your direct reports all sorts of new assignments and policies, and doesn't make you aware of them. No notes, no information, and no hint that she was going to stop and inform me on Tuesday morning.
Slowly, but surely all these things kept popping up Tuesday morning, and since I was already dealing with a lack of sleep, and was in my usual out-of-it state that I've been having lately, it really only started driving me over the edge. By the time Lisa popped out of one of her meetings I was already on her asking about the many changes I had already found out about.
Later in the afternoon, other things had come to light, and I asked Lisa about them, and said to her, rather loudly, "So, I just don't know anything anymore, now do I?", clearly showing my frustration to anyone within earshot. Certainly not the best thing to do, reaction-wise, but by that time I was clearly agitated. Lisa gave me the cold shoulder after that.
Wednesday Lisa gave me my review for the 4th quarter. The numbers were good. Very good actually, I was actually surprised, but the review focused mostly about the blow-up the day before, rather than the actual events of the fast fading 4th quarter of 2004. I understand that she was upset, and she wanted to discuss it, but it shouldn't be the focus of the meeting.
Feeling that we weren't going to talk about the actual issues, I decided to counter with the question of why she was taking me off of the projects dealing with the product we service and taking those projects for herself. she hemmed and hawed for a while, sort of implying that she didn't feel I was on the same page as her on it. I'm not quite sure how to take that, and asked her how o improve that communication. We will work on that because I want to work on those projects, but I suspect that she really just wants to take those projects for herself, since they are high profile.
We're all looking for the next great project, because we all want to get noticed. What a surprise. Now I just don't know if I care. I'm not sure if I've cared for a while, but still, I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot (too much) while I work here. Still, I know when a company is going nowhere, and when the leadership is not worth following.
So I still look to try to get away from here. Not just because of Lisa, but it sure helps. I obviously don't want to end up in a bad job elsewhere, but a change could do me good. Someone know a good recruiter?
Tuesday, I found that several things had shifted under my feet, from just being out on Monday. It's always fun to find out that you are out for a day, and your boss comes through and starts telling your direct reports all sorts of new assignments and policies, and doesn't make you aware of them. No notes, no information, and no hint that she was going to stop and inform me on Tuesday morning.
Slowly, but surely all these things kept popping up Tuesday morning, and since I was already dealing with a lack of sleep, and was in my usual out-of-it state that I've been having lately, it really only started driving me over the edge. By the time Lisa popped out of one of her meetings I was already on her asking about the many changes I had already found out about.
Later in the afternoon, other things had come to light, and I asked Lisa about them, and said to her, rather loudly, "So, I just don't know anything anymore, now do I?", clearly showing my frustration to anyone within earshot. Certainly not the best thing to do, reaction-wise, but by that time I was clearly agitated. Lisa gave me the cold shoulder after that.
Wednesday Lisa gave me my review for the 4th quarter. The numbers were good. Very good actually, I was actually surprised, but the review focused mostly about the blow-up the day before, rather than the actual events of the fast fading 4th quarter of 2004. I understand that she was upset, and she wanted to discuss it, but it shouldn't be the focus of the meeting.
Feeling that we weren't going to talk about the actual issues, I decided to counter with the question of why she was taking me off of the projects dealing with the product we service and taking those projects for herself. she hemmed and hawed for a while, sort of implying that she didn't feel I was on the same page as her on it. I'm not quite sure how to take that, and asked her how o improve that communication. We will work on that because I want to work on those projects, but I suspect that she really just wants to take those projects for herself, since they are high profile.
We're all looking for the next great project, because we all want to get noticed. What a surprise. Now I just don't know if I care. I'm not sure if I've cared for a while, but still, I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot (too much) while I work here. Still, I know when a company is going nowhere, and when the leadership is not worth following.
So I still look to try to get away from here. Not just because of Lisa, but it sure helps. I obviously don't want to end up in a bad job elsewhere, but a change could do me good. Someone know a good recruiter?
