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I started a new job last month. I am trying so fucking hard to stay positive about it and try not to pick holes and generally ignore the scars left by my last workplace. But my manager is, to put it most succinctly, worrying.
There was a bunch of confusion when I was going to start because she was going away for all of August. After a phone discussion that was ended with her saying she would call me back to confirm a date, I didn't hear from her for three weeks. I called her on a Monday and she said, "So are we still on for tomorrow?". I had no idea what she was talking about and she said the HR lady was supposed to send me a letter confirming my start date as that Tuesday.
She finally got back from her extended, four week holiday last week. Before she left, she had me fill in a form requesting that money be put into my bank account so I could buy a work phone. I told her that the money still hadn't come through and she said that the reason they couldn't process the payment was because Finance didn't have my bank details.
These sound like bog-standard fuck ups in an office. The worrying aspect is that on the first occasion, the HR woman told me directly that she never talked to her about when I was going to start nor did she tell her to write a letter. The second incident involved me going to finance to ask whey they hadn't paid the money. The finance woman came back to me that afternoon and told me that my manager had only given them the request yesterday.
How low and cowardly is it to blame other people when you are clearly the one who has made the mistake? How stupid is it to place that blame on someone from HR or Finance, the people who pretty much run every organization? And finally, what the hell am I in for when I'm managed by this woman?
Petty afterword - When I had my first meeting with her where we were supposed to talk strategy last week, she kept answering her phone and having ridiculously long conversations with the people who were calling. Then when she had to go to another meeting, she said it felt like we hadn't really resolved anything. No shit.
There was a bunch of confusion when I was going to start because she was going away for all of August. After a phone discussion that was ended with her saying she would call me back to confirm a date, I didn't hear from her for three weeks. I called her on a Monday and she said, "So are we still on for tomorrow?". I had no idea what she was talking about and she said the HR lady was supposed to send me a letter confirming my start date as that Tuesday.
She finally got back from her extended, four week holiday last week. Before she left, she had me fill in a form requesting that money be put into my bank account so I could buy a work phone. I told her that the money still hadn't come through and she said that the reason they couldn't process the payment was because Finance didn't have my bank details.
These sound like bog-standard fuck ups in an office. The worrying aspect is that on the first occasion, the HR woman told me directly that she never talked to her about when I was going to start nor did she tell her to write a letter. The second incident involved me going to finance to ask whey they hadn't paid the money. The finance woman came back to me that afternoon and told me that my manager had only given them the request yesterday.
How low and cowardly is it to blame other people when you are clearly the one who has made the mistake? How stupid is it to place that blame on someone from HR or Finance, the people who pretty much run every organization? And finally, what the hell am I in for when I'm managed by this woman?
Petty afterword - When I had my first meeting with her where we were supposed to talk strategy last week, she kept answering her phone and having ridiculously long conversations with the people who were calling. Then when she had to go to another meeting, she said it felt like we hadn't really resolved anything. No shit.