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The FC called me into his office late this afternoon for my 'return to work' interview, he asked me how I was doing and, when I paused, asked me to be truthful. So I was. There may also have been tears.
I told him I was feeling like I couldn't do my job effectively, my lack of faith in Fleet when query invoices get sent to them (complete with a specific example that happened today), how I felt like L was micro-managing me/looking over my shoulder/telling me how to do my job. I told him about the day when I was doing a payment run at the end of July for overdue May invoices/June invoices and L was insistent that I stop the payment run and focus on processing the July invoices (y'know, that aren't due for payment until August), that I'd said to her that if I didn't pay the invoices the suppliers would put us on stop, and her response was 'they'll just have to put us on stop. He wasn't aware that she'd told us to prioritise processing over everything, including checking emails.
I also told him that I didn't feel comfortable having a conversation with L to tell her so, that none of us would. He's going to have a word with her on our behalf. I'm just hoping I haven't made things worse. He's already working with the Fleet director on them multitude of issues both we and our customers are having regarding POs and invoices. (They're about a month backlog on providing initial POs to suppliers and they're not telling suppliers which company in our group to invoice, which means half the time, an invoice is already overdue before we even receive it for payment... and then we have to go back and tell them 'please reinvoice to [one of our other companies]' and they're so fed up they're now refusing - or charging admin fees on it.
The amount I've got done in the last two days without L being in is ridiculous. I was on emails dated 17th July yesterday, I started 1st August today. I've cleared all my reminder letters and most of my filing and am half-way through my statements pile. I have a checked and organized pile of invoices to process once we're open from month end. And don't even get me started on how it's already the middle of August and we haven't even been able to start processing August invoices yet!
He wanted me to know if I started getting stressed again to come and have a word with him. He said it was hs job to get stressed over things, not mine, that's what he gets paid the big money for. He's going to see if L&D can get me any stress management training and if there's anything for helping me deal with interruptions.
I'm supposed to hear back from the other job I interviewed for last week. The recruiter has already told me I'm the preferred candidate. I'm starting to wonder if thinking of leaving is a knee-jerk reaction and should I give it a little longer and see if things improve. I'm very torn, and think there could be a pros and cons list in my future!
I told him I was feeling like I couldn't do my job effectively, my lack of faith in Fleet when query invoices get sent to them (complete with a specific example that happened today), how I felt like L was micro-managing me/looking over my shoulder/telling me how to do my job. I told him about the day when I was doing a payment run at the end of July for overdue May invoices/June invoices and L was insistent that I stop the payment run and focus on processing the July invoices (y'know, that aren't due for payment until August), that I'd said to her that if I didn't pay the invoices the suppliers would put us on stop, and her response was 'they'll just have to put us on stop. He wasn't aware that she'd told us to prioritise processing over everything, including checking emails.
I also told him that I didn't feel comfortable having a conversation with L to tell her so, that none of us would. He's going to have a word with her on our behalf. I'm just hoping I haven't made things worse. He's already working with the Fleet director on them multitude of issues both we and our customers are having regarding POs and invoices. (They're about a month backlog on providing initial POs to suppliers and they're not telling suppliers which company in our group to invoice, which means half the time, an invoice is already overdue before we even receive it for payment... and then we have to go back and tell them 'please reinvoice to [one of our other companies]' and they're so fed up they're now refusing - or charging admin fees on it.
The amount I've got done in the last two days without L being in is ridiculous. I was on emails dated 17th July yesterday, I started 1st August today. I've cleared all my reminder letters and most of my filing and am half-way through my statements pile. I have a checked and organized pile of invoices to process once we're open from month end. And don't even get me started on how it's already the middle of August and we haven't even been able to start processing August invoices yet!
He wanted me to know if I started getting stressed again to come and have a word with him. He said it was hs job to get stressed over things, not mine, that's what he gets paid the big money for. He's going to see if L&D can get me any stress management training and if there's anything for helping me deal with interruptions.
I'm supposed to hear back from the other job I interviewed for last week. The recruiter has already told me I'm the preferred candidate. I'm starting to wonder if thinking of leaving is a knee-jerk reaction and should I give it a little longer and see if things improve. I'm very torn, and think there could be a pros and cons list in my future!