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I work for a corporate and joined 5 months ago. I was pulled in to a high visibility project and my work so far has earned me appreciation from my current leads and business partners. I alone pulled the weight of this project and got it this far. we had two recent grads join this effort who I was training to catch up and help me out.
This past Friday, I was pulled in by my manager to say we have one of the leads leaving and would like to make one of the new recent grad lead this effort. I am obviously insulted as I was thinking I have the most knowledge base on the team. I absorbed all he had to say which basically meant that I will be doing what I am doing and the person(new lead) will be assigning and driving the effort. I am shattered and feel that my work so far was not appreciated and overlooked. I want to stay on the effort and contribute but I feel very non motivated considering I bring in more outside world experience and more knowledge to the project than the new lead.
My other issue is the business partners will now think that my manager possibly saw more potential in her than me. The other issue is we are getting a new manager end of September. He will be going forward with this is kind that I for sure did nothing significant and which is why someone brand new was picked to lead.
Should I bring this up and chat with the manager? Should I just slide this by? What should I say? I don't want to set a pattern for me to get pushed over always and want to set this right. Should I just leave the project? I am extremely hurt and my soon to be ex-leads are frustrated with the managers decision as well.
What would you do? Thanks for your help with this!
he isn't going to change the lead now after he's already made it known... did you even give the impression that you wanted to become the lead in the first place? this is what needs to be done before a position comes up, instead of waiting around and hoping you get it
I did tell him that for my career advancement, it would be great to lead a project. I am wondering if I should tell this in a suttle way to his boss. He is obviously trying to make this new girl shine by making me look like a pile of waste. We did not know that this position is coming up. He has not announced it yet.
Thanks suburban guy. I can't see the wsj link due to no subscription. I would like to see it though. Could you pleas paste the contents here? Thanks. I speak to him tomorrow regarding where I fell short to be considered to lead. I hope that goes well.
Perhaps the person chosen to lead the project has excellent communication or writing skills. Sometimes that is considered a distinct asset in management circles.
One thing you'll learn fast on here is that managers always have a reason for what they do...so don't you worry your pretty little head about it...and sooner or later someone on here will tell you that you can always just get another job.
So basically I just let it slide and pretend as if nothing happened?
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