This reminds me of something that happened yesterday. Though thankfully it was not any sort of assault, just a false accusation or miscommunication about a scheduling issue. It had gotten changed mid-way through the day and one of my tasks was swapped with another person’s. The other person suggested asking the upper management if we could swap back to the first way, and I said I was okay with it. She went to talk to upper management, told me the change was okay, and so we went with it.
Anyway, one of my managers (that’s been picking on me a lot lately) later came to talk to me, going off the assumption that I suggested the schedule change. I told her I didn’t, she told me the coworker said I did, she then continued her spiel about corrective behavior and being more flexible about the schedule. I was caught off guard by the whole thing and didn’t know what else to say.
Recently I had a meeting with upper management discussing my progress toward my next raise, and the only thing left to check off regards responding to direction with professional communication. I can’t trust that manager to see my response as anything but defensive, as she’s proven her distrust of me over the past couple weeks. So, I immediately messaged a manager who’s a step above the one who talked to me and explained the situation. I brought up the point for the raise, and stated that I wasn’t sure how to “respond professionally” to a false accusation. Thankfully, she knows I was okay with the schedule change, since I had discussed it with her shortly before the incident in question took place and she knows I was ready to roll with it either way.
Thank goodness the higher management at my workplace knows me well. The person I messaged ended up giving me props for professionalism by reaching out to her, and said she’d talk to the manager who gave me the dress down.
Hopefully the middle-manager’s bullshit won’t stop me from getting the raise I desperately need. Lately it seems every time she talks to me, it’s to tell me to do something differently. Meanwhile all the other managers compliment me on both how I work and how I communicate, so… something’s clearly not adding up here.
This reminds me of something that happened yesterday. Though thankfully it was not any sort of assault, just a false accusation or miscommunication about a scheduling issue. It had gotten changed mid-way through the day and one of my tasks was swapped with another person’s. The other person suggested asking the upper management if we could swap back to the first way, and I said I was okay with it. She went to talk to upper management, told me the change was okay, and so we went with it.
Anyway, one of my managers (that’s been picking on me a lot lately) later came to talk to me, going off the assumption that I suggested the schedule change. I told her I didn’t, she told me the coworker said I did, she then continued her spiel about corrective behavior and being more flexible about the schedule. I was caught off guard by the whole thing and didn’t know what else to say.
Recently I had a meeting with upper management discussing my progress toward my next raise, and the only thing left to check off regards responding to direction with professional communication. I can’t trust that manager to see my response as anything but defensive, as she’s proven her distrust of me over the past couple weeks. So, I immediately messaged a manager who’s a step above the one who talked to me and explained the situation. I brought up the point for the raise, and stated that I wasn’t sure how to “respond professionally” to a false accusation. Thankfully, she knows I was okay with the schedule change, since I had discussed it with her shortly before the incident in question took place and she knows I was ready to roll with it either way.
Thank goodness the higher management at my workplace knows me well. The person I messaged ended up giving me props for professionalism by reaching out to her, and said she’d talk to the manager who gave me the dress down.
Hopefully the middle-manager’s bullshit won’t stop me from getting the raise I desperately need. Lately it seems every time she talks to me, it’s to tell me to do something differently. Meanwhile all the other managers compliment me on both how I work and how I communicate, so… something’s clearly not adding up here.