add'l work rant, continue ignoring
So today, I go in and decide to be totally non-functioning, but I can't stand it. I dig in and start working away, but vow to avoid Michael. Around noon, he calls me in to a meeting. He never calls me in to his meetings. The hell? He introduces me as the "expert" on our systems starts asking my opinion on a bunch of crap. Again, the hell? Is this some kind of pat to try to make up? So I get thru the annoying meeting, which I now have to return to next with, with some answers because I'm now on a new team, and go ask my boss. She says she thinks he's decided I'm now somehow his and he's going to keep borrowing me. Oh lovely.
I try to ignore it and him and continue working and around 5:15, he calls me over to where he and my boss are talking. He asked me again to create the methodology for next year's audit. I grew a spine and told him that if Lynn was going to be in charge of it, that she should do it. He said she wasn't capable of it (she's two pay grades above me). I was irritated, but gave and offered to write something up and give it to him. No. NO????? No, he'd like me to just MEET with her. FUCK NO! So no! and I again grew a bigger spine and told him no! I did NOT think that would be a good idea. But why?? He had no idea why this would not be a great idea. I then told him, awkwardly and angrily, that it would NOT BE A GOOD IDEA FOR ME TO TALK ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!! (trying not to look like a crazy person - there were horrid silences before and after that declaration). Michael is about the most dork of all dorks I've ever seen in the work place. He is NOT your average, tactful perceptive executive. He was just all.. "too emotional?" I .. just stared at him. Then back at nothing. For a REALLY long time. Awkward. Then I started a short, quiet rant sort of like my lj yesterday, but abridged and without cursing somehow. Then, he again, as he always does, got back on his original agenda and told me that "doesn't have to be today (um, it was 5:30 by then, so duh?) or even tomorrow, but in the next couple of weeks, he'd like to have that plan, mmmkay??? and smiled his big smile, crisis over! gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I take my PHR exam in January. I really need to pass it and improve my marketability. Just in case.
I try to ignore it and him and continue working and around 5:15, he calls me over to where he and my boss are talking. He asked me again to create the methodology for next year's audit. I grew a spine and told him that if Lynn was going to be in charge of it, that she should do it. He said she wasn't capable of it (she's two pay grades above me). I was irritated, but gave and offered to write something up and give it to him. No. NO????? No, he'd like me to just MEET with her. FUCK NO! So no! and I again grew a bigger spine and told him no! I did NOT think that would be a good idea. But why?? He had no idea why this would not be a great idea. I then told him, awkwardly and angrily, that it would NOT BE A GOOD IDEA FOR ME TO TALK ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!! (trying not to look like a crazy person - there were horrid silences before and after that declaration). Michael is about the most dork of all dorks I've ever seen in the work place. He is NOT your average, tactful perceptive executive. He was just all.. "too emotional?" I .. just stared at him. Then back at nothing. For a REALLY long time. Awkward. Then I started a short, quiet rant sort of like my lj yesterday, but abridged and without cursing somehow. Then, he again, as he always does, got back on his original agenda and told me that "doesn't have to be today (um, it was 5:30 by then, so duh?) or even tomorrow, but in the next couple of weeks, he'd like to have that plan, mmmkay??? and smiled his big smile, crisis over! gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I take my PHR exam in January. I really need to pass it and improve my marketability. Just in case.