What Have I Done?
So, in between being heard by upper management and being offered a promotion … I forgot my immediate situation: my current management sucks.
Today, I had a urinary joust with my project lead. Loads of fun. I have a hard time being told to do something I don’t want to do … and I have a tendency to throw it back: “You want it so bad, do it yourself. In my judgement, it’s unneeded.”
Then I had a rant fest with #2 on my project. I leveled with him – I don’t know what he does, I’ve expressed interest in knowing, I feel like I have a right to know, and in the absence of knowing, I’m left to assume that it’s zero value added because I never see any product coming from the management team to help us do our job.
He didn’t like that. He was fine when I said they should be doing more by way of leadership; he was not fine when I said I had a right to know what they did.
After all of this, I found myself wondering … why did I stay?! Oh yeah, I have a get out of jail free card. I think I had better play it sooner than later.
i applaude you for saying something in the first place. my current situation is pretty frustrating, and i’m counting down the days till i’m out of it. it’s no more than 6 months could be as short as 2!
where does one go to get this ‘get out of jail free’ card?
an informal agreement as part of the formal arrangement of continued employment.