Steaming mad

[undeterred]

Just got an email via the grapevine which told me that my manager has been soliticting resumes for a position like mine. My supervisor knows of no new position. I've been here a year, never had negative feedback on my work except that my manager seems to think I should stifle myself (this morning he said I shouldn't have told a user that software was crap. (I wasted 12 hours on it and the company finally admitted it was a bad build.) Another time I was told I shouldn't have complained about the snow not being cleared at all when I got to work. And so on... I'm supposed to be Little Bo Peep. I think he's a pig, but I wasn't expecting to be stabbed in the back. I'm honest and forthright and friendly and people like me. He seems to be freaked out by the fact that I don't kiss anyone's ass and he can't control me.

Other than that I like the job, love my supervisor, and don't want to leave.

:grr:

[crim son]

1. Well, that sucks rocks.

Could it be you're getting a new coworker?

[Nickster]

2. That's what I was thinking too. Maybe a new co-worker. n/t

[undeterred]

3. Remotely possible

We're a small group. Our old IT manager had a lot of skills on the support and networking side and really got involved. New guy is an Oracle expert but knows nothing about the rest. So its like we lost a whole position when we lost the old IT manager because two of us have to take over a lot of his stuff. But new IT manager is sneaky and I don't trust him.

[crim son]

5. I don't blame you and it might be worth starting to look around.

I'm really sorry, especially because your only fault is that you have a personality.

[undeterred]

6. He seems to have a low testosterone level

He's a Democrat married to a very Republican woman. Total submission to a really weak personality.

[Nickster]

9. OMG, You work for Alan Colmes?! :-) n/t

[idgiehkt]

14. tough call.

Definitely don't want to make the wrong move here. I hope that things work out for the best; I definitely would not want to be in this position you are in having to try to decide how to handle it. :hug:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. Do we work for the same person ? I am kind of going through the same thing ...

I am not the kind of person who kisses ass - and its like lately I all I do is zone out at work and listen to my iPod because if I am pushed one inch further, I am going to bust a nerve. But hey - I am not the only person in my department that feels the way I do.

[undeterred]

7. Yeah, people either kiss ass or they don't

Pretty much mutually exclusive groups. And sadly, the ones who do, usually go further than the ones who don't.

[Deja Q]

11. For me then, it's time to start kissing...

I've tried saying "Let's take the time to do this" on many things and I'm treated as if I don't exist.

And I'm not going to pray for disaster. :crazy:

I need a job and I need to finish my next degree.

:shrug:


It's also possible they need another person with similar specifications. Doesn't mean the newbie will be a replacement. (Let's hope not, anyway!)

[wildhorses]

8. sounds like my ex-boss

start looking...


i wouldn't trust him

[undeterred]

10. I'm so steamed I actually talked to HR

and they don't know anything about it.

[wildhorses]

13. in my experience hr is just another

part of the circle jerk:grr:

[Deja Q]

12. I wish our world did work on niceness and being forthright...

:hug:

Best of luck whatever happens, but with luck they just need additional staff and it's not about having you nixed.

[undeterred]

15. Yeah, me too.

Another thought occurred to me. There is another person in a lower level position than mine. He has been with the company for 29 years. He's 57. He knows every nook and cranny of the physcial facility (and that's saying a lot) and every person, and he does a lot of the routine stuff like setting up accounts and answering the phone. He isn't going any furthur with his career. But it would be a huge loss for him to lose this job and hard to find another one. He knows everybody, and everybody likes him.

Once before there was a manager who had no use for him, but my supervisor stepped up and said NO, we are not going to be able to do this without him. Maybe the new manager also has no sense of loyalty and is going to do the same thing.