Gah! Another supervisor who openly disses my job,

[Deja Q]

says he wants department morale to improve, thanks people for showing interest but then forgets them when new projects come up*, uses the fact of showing interest in something against them in their review, and then wonders why morale is still so bad...


* I do have a lot of projects going on right now and I do have a habit of wanting to do too much, but if that is the reason why I wasn't put into the new project where they're giving people lots of training, it'd be nice to actually know...

[GCP]

1. "The floggings will continue until morale improves"!!

:)

[VLC]

2. corporate inertia

Really hard to stop.

How could showing interest come up as a negative in a review?

Once at our annual meeting, my coworker (we're a dept. of 3 people, and always forgotten for everything because we don't MAKE money, we just SAVE money) told our boss at a break that everyone was being acknowledged for their work on projects in the PowerPoint presentation except us. So after the break he remedied that by orally thanking TWO OF THE THREE of us ;-)

[Deja Q]

3. Because mine likes to pidgeonhole people.

I roll with it; it's not a bad job by any means and I do what I can to keep everybody happy. Given our workloads, it makes sense they don't want everybody to start jumping around too far...