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cowgirl836 said:
I'm pretty much the first person they've managed and I thought it was going fine but it's like, I can really tell they need more experience with......working life. This is a stupid battle to pick. They won't win, and it makes them look petty and difficult. They think that mutual boss doesn't like them much, well......now you're going to take up boss's very valuable time to deal with this?! Excellent way to land a perma spot on the **** list. I think manager is unhappy with their role right now and wants a promotion (and I'm basically the cookie of, you aren't ready for a promotion, but here's an underling). Well, **** like this will keep you from more responsibility. And I don't anticipate that I will be their underling for long. They keep this up and I will push to be switched since it sounds like I almost didn't go to them anyway.

Manager takes their new role quite seriously and actually had a little chat with me basically being like "you went behind my back" for having a convo with my mentor-type person about my future here. Which included talking about things that to my knowledge, new manager had no clue of as it dealt with stuff that happened well before they were my manager. So yeah, hard to ask them for updates on things they are in the dark on. I'm sorry that results of that convo came back to them in a way that they didn't like, but I do not feel I did anything wrong - nor have I have been told that by others involved. I will continue to talk to mentor person whenever I feel they are the most appropriate person to go to.
I like manager as a person and had no trouble with them when they were my peer, but I think they are digging their own hole right now. And I do not appreciate any attempt at drawing me down into it. I avoid office drama for a reason.

Ugh, wish old manager would come back from vacay so I could talk to them.
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My wife's office has "skip-level" meetings twice a year. Basically, people get to have a one on one with their boss's boss to voice any complaints. A decent manager has nothing to worry about, but the marginal ones should. They have actually fired managers that tried to use their position to get rid of an employee that said something negatively about them during one of those meetings.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
My wife's office has "skip-level" meetings twice a year. Basically, people get to have a one on one with their boss's boss to voice any complaints. A decent manager has nothing to worry about, but the marginal ones should. They have actually fired managers that tried to use their position to get rid of an employee that said something negatively about them during one of those meetings.
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We had those at Learjet and have them here as well. Like most things it is what both sides make of it.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
My wife's office has "skip-level" meetings twice a year. Basically, people get to have a one on one with their boss's boss to voice any complaints. A decent manager has nothing to worry about, but the marginal ones should. They have actually fired managers that tried to use their position to get rid of an employee that said something negatively about them during one of those meetings.
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that seems like a really good process to have. In my case, I was absolutely not going to my mentor to complain about my manager. I mostly went to see where the hell the career move we talked about a couple years ago was at. And talk about what they saw as my future here. Basically, I was not happy. And as a result of that chat, mentor and mutual boss are giving me new projects to work on in order to begin that shift to a new role and give me the experience I need. And since it turns out they want me happy and not jumping ship, this was done very quickly and probably not communicated fast enough to manager. So when it did get to manager, they took it as me going around them, which had not been the case.

Ugh, and now I have to start filling out my review for the year and I bet I can't just BS it like I could with my previous manager. How the hell do I word the issues I'm describing into some type of constructive manager feedback?!
 
While we are talking about work. A co-worker that got a promotion over me is freaking out because a guy that we need to finish something is leaving early today. Never mind the PM is on vacation again for the rest of the week, the engineer is on travel for the sixth straight week and I am out in a couple of weeks. Just kind of a don't freak out just roll with the punches and maybe the PM will re-baseline his schedule to be more realistic. I certainly can't and won't tell the guy he can't go.
 
Dad-brag alert.

My daughter was talking to me about some of the events at daycare yesterday. She talked about how they were split into two teams for a timed scavenger hunt, with her team losing.

I asked how the other kids handled it. She said that some of them started getting upset, but she said, "I told them that they could choose to react in a positive way or a negative way, but only one way makes you and people around you feel better."

At nine, she's already smarter than a lot of people I interact with on a daily basis.
 
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coolerifyoudid said:
Dad-brag alert.

My daughter was talking to me about some of the events at daycare yesterday. She talked about how they were split into two teams for a timed scavenger hunt, with her team losing.

I asked how the other kids handled it. She said that some of them started getting upset, but she said, "I told them that they could choose to react in a positive way or a negative way, but only one way makes you and people around you feel better."

At nine, she's already smarter than a lot of people I interact with on a daily basis.
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So she acted negative and said the other team cheated?
 
Trying to decide whether to watch baseball or softball tonight. Will be third consecutive game starting for my son and coach always benches him after three games. Daughter is starting to work in the varsity team, DH'd last game and talk of her playing both ways tonight. Do I miss my daughter's first full varsity start or my son's probable last start of the season? I am thinking of leaning baseball.
 
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cyrocksmypants said:
Have @cowgirl836 and @CloneinWDSM both quit their jobs and run away together yet?
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They're pretty much Thelma-and-Louise-ing it now.
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While we are talking about work. A co-worker that got a promotion over me is freaking out because a guy that we need to finish something is leaving early today. Never mind the PM is on vacation again for the rest of the week, the engineer is on travel for the sixth straight week and I am out in a couple of weeks. Just kind of a don't freak out just roll with the punches and maybe the PM will re-baseline his schedule to be more realistic. I certainly can't and won't tell the guy he can't go.
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My son spends a lot of time trying to get people stick to schedule. Some guy kept emailing him for the schedule and it was actually the guy that set it up.:rolleyes: Since he is in a position where he "manages" people who are farther up the food chain than him on certain projects, he has taken to giving them the projected cost for each day of delay and sending a copy of that farther up the food chain. Then tells higher up supervisor most of his emails to him are just junk to get people to do what they said they would do. Guy laughed and he said that's what all of his emails are from everybody below him in the chain of command.
 
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While we are talking about work. A co-worker that got a promotion over me is freaking out because a guy that we need to finish something is leaving early today. Never mind the PM is on vacation again for the rest of the week, the engineer is on travel for the sixth straight week and I am out in a couple of weeks. Just kind of a don't freak out just roll with the punches and maybe the PM will re-baseline his schedule to be more realistic. I certainly can't and won't tell the guy he can't go.
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everytime I see you time PM I think you're in Parliament all of a sudden. Even though I know they use "MP".
 
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