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I'm trying to understand exactly what I did that would make my supervisor ask me things such as "Can you explain why you haven't done this" when I have been here for two years and ALWAYS do my job. I'm a counselor and I was assigned a particular youth to see and I saw that youth three times AND talked about him twice during our weekly meetings, both times of which my supervisor was present and HE was the one asking me questions about the youth. I even talked to the youth's casemanager and addressed some concerns the youth's grandmother was having about his medication and counseling.
The casemanager calls and asks him a question about how to deal with the grandmother and I get an EMAIL, nothing in person, asking me if I can explain why I haven't seen this youth since he was put on my caseload three weeks ago.
Then, he asked why I hadn't put my paperwork in within the normal 5 day work week deadline-he was stating that I had waited 7 days. I wrote back my reply stating that I saw a youth on this certain day and had my paperwork in within 48 hours, nothing rude or sarcastic, just telling him I had it in on this certain day. Then I told him that I had seen the youth on my caseload 3 times already and I had also spoken with the casemanager about the grandmother and was working on the issue.
He stops responding to me and then sends out an email to all the counselors stating that paperwork now had to be turned in within the 8 hour work day.
I'm really confused.............what did I do wrong? I asked the other counselors and they all said they had never had a problem with him. I'm super confused what I did to get on his bad side.
No he definitely did not get me confused with anyone else. His office is RIGHT NEXT TO MINE and he avoids talking to me at all costs. He always emails me. And he got my email because it said he read it. I'm just confused because it seems like he got mad when I told him I had done everything according to his rules on time limits and then just made the time limit even worse.
Ugh. I'm still searching for new jobs and I haven't gotten anywhere.
I'm trying to understand exactly what I did that would make my supervisor ask me things such as "Can you explain why you haven't done this" when I have been here for two years and ALWAYS do my job. I'm a counselor and I was assigned a particular youth to see and I saw that youth three times AND talked about him twice during our weekly meetings, both times of which my supervisor was present and HE was the one asking me questions about the youth. I even talked to the youth's casemanager and addressed some concerns the youth's grandmother was having about his medication and counseling.
The casemanager calls and asks him a question about how to deal with the grandmother and I get an EMAIL, nothing in person, asking me if I can explain why I haven't seen this youth since he was put on my caseload three weeks ago.
Then, he asked why I hadn't put my paperwork in within the normal 5 day work week deadline-he was stating that I had waited 7 days. I wrote back my reply stating that I saw a youth on this certain day and had my paperwork in within 48 hours, nothing rude or sarcastic, just telling him I had it in on this certain day. Then I told him that I had seen the youth on my caseload 3 times already and I had also spoken with the casemanager about the grandmother and was working on the issue.
He stops responding to me and then sends out an email to all the counselors stating that paperwork now had to be turned in within the 8 hour work day.
I'm really confused.............what did I do wrong? I asked the other counselors and they all said they had never had a problem with him. I'm super confused what I did to get on his bad side.
only thing you did was call him on his bs and his lack of maintaining his own workload. Good for you.
Koale
Sounds like he's both incompetent and a micro-manager. I have one of these right now and it's dreadful. She does the same thing: constant follow up and follow up on things that we have already discussed. I try stay off her radar as much as possible. When you have a micro-manager, I think the best tactic is to manage up. What that means is that you need to understand what your manager is seeking and get it to him/her before s/he asks for it. Once you learn your manager's patterns, it'll be easy to predict and plan for such things.
Best of luck!
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