work updates and advice
Every now and then it strikes me just how boring my life is. I like it fine, I’m not a big fan of shock and excitement in my own life, but when I’m chatting with other people I occasionally realize, Wow, nothing has actually really happened in the last week, has it? Which is probably why I talk about fandom a lot of the time. It’s more interesting, at least to the fannish folks out there, and most folks on this journal are fannish.
But there actually has been a significant change in my non-fannish life recently: I’m getting a new boss. My previous boss took a job in another department on campus, so we’ve been with temporary folks for awhile. The new person was just confirmed hired, though. I’m not going to go into detail for various reasons, but I’m very happy with the hiring committee’s choice. Very, very happy.
Over the past year I’ve become more and more aware that I need to write up a list of all the things I do, all the things I’ve accomplished in the past year, and all the things I could do (or could do better) if only I had even one permanent assistant, whether they be full or part time. Even if this does not result in acquiring said assistant (and it probably won’t; the department has just restructured to hire a new, permanent, full time additional office staff person-which I know they needed as much as I need an assistant-and they won’t want to create a second permanent position for awhile now), at least it will make my boss aware of what it is I actually do, which no one really seems to know right now.
I’m comfortable enough with the woman who will be my new boss (she and I worked together for a couple of months as more or less equals two years ago and got along very well) to ask her for a private meeting so I can lay this all out for her. Towards that end, I have started making the above lists.
Do any of you folks have any advice for how I should structure this meeting? I mean, she may ask questions to redirect things, but I should have a plan in place in case she just lets me run it. My first thoughts are to start with all my responsibilities, move onto projects completed and underway, segue from that into projects I wish I could do, make a short pitch for an assistant (a “they could make those projects happen, and also improve performance in these areas” kind of pitch), and finish up with “but if we stick with the status quo, here are the next projects” kind of thing so that we don’t finish with things I can’t do (unless I get help).
I do want to put a bug in her ear early about needed help so that she can take it into account as she makes plans for the department, but this is also going to be my first major interaction with her as her employee, so I’d like to set a good tone for the future.
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But there actually has been a significant change in my non-fannish life recently: I’m getting a new boss. My previous boss took a job in another department on campus, so we’ve been with temporary folks for awhile. The new person was just confirmed hired, though. I’m not going to go into detail for various reasons, but I’m very happy with the hiring committee’s choice. Very, very happy.
Over the past year I’ve become more and more aware that I need to write up a list of all the things I do, all the things I’ve accomplished in the past year, and all the things I could do (or could do better) if only I had even one permanent assistant, whether they be full or part time. Even if this does not result in acquiring said assistant (and it probably won’t; the department has just restructured to hire a new, permanent, full time additional office staff person-which I know they needed as much as I need an assistant-and they won’t want to create a second permanent position for awhile now), at least it will make my boss aware of what it is I actually do, which no one really seems to know right now.
I’m comfortable enough with the woman who will be my new boss (she and I worked together for a couple of months as more or less equals two years ago and got along very well) to ask her for a private meeting so I can lay this all out for her. Towards that end, I have started making the above lists.
Do any of you folks have any advice for how I should structure this meeting? I mean, she may ask questions to redirect things, but I should have a plan in place in case she just lets me run it. My first thoughts are to start with all my responsibilities, move onto projects completed and underway, segue from that into projects I wish I could do, make a short pitch for an assistant (a “they could make those projects happen, and also improve performance in these areas” kind of pitch), and finish up with “but if we stick with the status quo, here are the next projects” kind of thing so that we don’t finish with things I can’t do (unless I get help).
I do want to put a bug in her ear early about needed help so that she can take it into account as she makes plans for the department, but this is also going to be my first major interaction with her as her employee, so I’d like to set a good tone for the future.
[This entry was originally posted at DreamWidth (http://crimsonquills.dreamwidth.org/697734.html). Please comment there using OpenID or anonymous commenting. (
comments at DreamWidth.)]