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I don't understand why you think you have a grievance - you were given a project by your boss to complete - what makes you think that you are only supposed to work on projects that you like? Just do your job to the best of your ability like an adult, show that you are interested in taking on more responsibility and/or more challenging assignments (if that is the case), and stop sniveling over something you simply don't want to do.
Hi All. So I knew something has been brewing, but the boss puts me on the worst possible project in the worst possible department. Only 1 rung up the ladder from where I was.
My living situation is changing and I.ve just about had enough. How do I buy some time, bluff my way a bit, and also, should I let HR know and ask what recourse I have? All just to buy some time while I get the gumption to bail, on my current job and current living situation?
I know the usual advise about going to HR but I am so hurt I really don.t care. I am venting and confused.
I don't understand why you're upset...at least you aren't stagnant or being demoted...
Presumably SOMEONE has to do this project and it sounds like you're near the bottom of the food chain. Bust your butt and get it done so you can move on to something else.
The rules of engagement at any job are to be competent and get the work done that is assigned to you on schedule and with high quality. If you want to advance, you also do more than that. You work self-directed and identify & solve problems before anyone else becomes aware that they're a problem. You want the reputation of being the competent go-to person in the organization. That person gets the raises and promotions. They get the hard projects which doesn't always mean they're the best projects. It means they're the the project that requires the best talent.
I'm really senior. I've always taken the attitude that no job is beneath me. If something isn't getting done that some low level person could do but there is no resource available to do it, I step in and shovel harder than anybody else. I'd never dream of running to HR that my delicate feelings are being trampled because I'm being asked to do something I don't want to do or that I think is somehow demeaning.
If you're out networking and interviewing where everybody knows you're the key person and the go-to for all the hard things, you have a lot better luck being considered for the "good" jobs instead of the lousy ones shoveling manure.
Let me add more info. For example only, lets say there are 3 layers to the department: Projects 1 2 and 3 (#1 largest, most visible and the life-blood, 2 being which one I am on now, and #3 being the dullest, soul-crushing one -woman department I described in my second post). I am on Project #2 currently and am being told I need to go onto to Project #3. No financial gain but I wouldn.t expect that.
Important point I didn t make earlier:
A few weeks ago the CEO of the comapany sent out an email to all the Project #1 people that Project #3 needed IMMEDIATE assistance, and would someone like to take the position. It was met with only lukewarm reception. No one volunteered. No one. Another email was sent stating that a person will be plucked out of the department and put onto Project 3 if no one volunteers. Weeks passed. A few people were mildly interested but no one, out of 30ish people volunteered to move. No other mention was ever made, until yesterday.
Mind you, we have tons of temps running around who could be assigned, folks that have less time at the company than I, but no. The scarlet letter is on my back.
Thanks for reading. My lease ends in August also.
Now can anyone see my angst? Should I call it quits and go home (8 hour drive) and pack my grip?
:?)
Loser projects only happen in clip art and on TV dramedies and in 100 hour work weeks and in stock photos.
What, you've never had those where you work? I've had a couple in my career. Various reasons why, but sometimes the boss is playing politics and you are just collateral damage in their game. I've been assigned projects where the boss intentionally wanted the project to fail. Of course that happens. In this case it was because project C was in competition with his personal pet project F and was championed by a department that was his nemesis. His stated goal was for C to fail so he could prove F was a better product. He actively sabotaged the team he assigned, cut funding, and then totally ignored the project. Of course that was his mistake. Since we all had nothing to lose and no one in management to stop us, we sort of redefined the project, actively sought out customers and pulled it off. Were we rewarded? Of course not; we had embarrassed him by doing what he said couldn't be done. All of us suffered in our careers and had to move one elsewhere. But it was worth it. Because today, 20 years later, the F technology he championed is dead along with his organization and current technology is a derivative of C, though provided by our competitors.
<quote>A few weeks ago the CEO of the company sent out an email to all the Project #1 people that Project #3 needed IMMEDIATE assistance, and would someone like to take the position.</quote>
Well, here was a chance to for the CEO to learn your name and be grateful for your stepping up, and you passed on it like everyone else because it wasn't going to be fun or whatever you said. That actually makes sense, but ...
This was a chance for you to have permission to directly communicate to the CEO. That's a rare opportunity.
When given lemons, try to make lemonade. Or as in my case, I used them for the Cuba Libre I having right now.
Is there any way you can back up and reply to the CEO's request and (1) tell the CEO that you're 100% on board and (2) ask what in particular you could do to make this a success in his/her eyes?
remember the line under responsibilities - "other duties, as assigned" - are present in a vast majority of job descriptions.
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