I don’t solely know if I’m asking for recommendation or simply need to vent my annoyance.
I moved into a brand new position that I really like love love final 12 months. Nonetheless, we’ve accomplished a little bit of restructuring and that supervisor was moved to a unique staff. As a result of area of interest nature of my position, I’m now reporting to completely different of us for various facets of my job. We’re on the highest govt degree in my org so this type of construction shouldn’t be solely irregular.
The supervisor that indicators my paychecks oversees the bottom precedence areas of my work; they don’t supervise anybody else and by no means have at our org. From appearances, it seems to be like they got supervision of my grunt work and assigned all of the grunt work of supervising me (paperwork) as a result of the opposite managers had an excessive amount of different excessive precedence work to take it on.
This supervisor had an entire assembly with me about how they weren’t involved in oversight and actually had been simply there to help me as wanted or to bounce concepts round. However they instantly rotated and bought extraordinarily in my enterprise.
Not even per week after the re-org, they claimed a job that had been assigned to me as a result of they felt their expertise doing comparable work at a unique org over a decade in the past made them extra certified to take it on. This can be a job I had been doing for two years in a unique division of the identical org up till 6 months in the past. I didn’t need to do the duty anyway and was glad to allow them to have it, however I’m feeling some sort of means about the way it occurred.
There was one other job which I felt they had been hinting about eager to take as properly as a result of “X in Y division had already forwarded them an e-mail about that job so it looks like of us suppose I’m taking that over too”. That is one other factor I don’t need to do. It’s the bottom precedence and affect of all my work and I’d be glad to let it go in the event that they requested. However I bought aggravated that they wouldn’t simply come out and say what they wished so I used to be somewhat infantile about it and pretended to not decide up on the hints and simply mentioned I’d ensure to make clear that I’m the useful resource for this job so there’s no confusion.
The supervisor went on to coordinate a name to introduce me to the contractor supporting this job. In fact, I’ve been working with this contractor for six months and already know them and the outgoing supervisor already notified them of the change. However New Supervisor, who has by no means met this contractor or been in any respect concerned on this work, took it upon themselves to get entangled with out asking any questions.
Then, once we bought a really minor query concerning the job, I instantly resolved it although it was not pressing or excessive precedence as a result of I anticipated this new supervisor being bizarre about it. I notified them of the decision and even despatched a comply with up after I found new, associated data. Solely to search out out later that this supervisor had been going round checking in with everybody concerned on this job and re-doing all of the work I had simply accomplished. They bought the identical outcome however I bought quite a lot of lengthy emails explaining what they did and why — explanations I didn’t want as a result of I did the identical factor earlier than they did it!!
I’m going to allow them to understand it looks like they’re very invested on this work and they need to undertake it solely if it’s going to take up this a lot of their bandwidth. There’s no sense in each of us dedicating this a lot time to one thing that’s low affect and low complexity. We’re speaking ordering printer paper in comparison with designing insurance policies and procedures on the request of our governing physique which are more likely to be examined in court docket. The paper must be ordered but in addition we should always endeavor to spend as little time on it as we will.
This particular person is simply driving me insane. I’ve by no means felt protecting of my work or like my ego was in any means fragile, however I’m beginning to get offended by the 20 minute explanations of processes that they don’t appear to comprehend I created. I perceive that I’m most likely taking this too personally or enjoying some position in it, but in addition I simply need to be irritated that they by no means ask a single query and assume I want issues defined to me. I really like studying new issues however I get extraordinarily irritated having my time wasted on issues I already know.
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest.
