Hi All, Apologies for the rant..
One of my colleagues has been made the department manager, he was always a senior since I've join the company 5 years ago but was never my direct manager.
His position hasn't official been briefed out as far as I am aware, it's just been word of mouth and the way he's been acting.
Anyway, we have a small department 4 of us; we all work hard and are clearly understaff as we are looking to employ someone else. Working in IT I log everything I do in our job management system, document any project/system work as per industry standard, we also write a yearly review on ourselves as per company requirements.
But he now wants a weekly report on what we have done and what we are planning to do next week, which I flatly refused and explained to him why it shoudn't be required.
Quite frankly I feel insulted that I need to do this; I feel it's nothing but time and motion and for him to try and micromanage us when it's not required. It shows a lack of trust; in that we know what we are doing or will seek help when required! If he has an issue with a member of staff; be that me, he should address it with that member of staff and not change procedure and cause us more work.
I can understand such reports are required if a person is up for review, or if their manage serveal departments/areas/companies but this person was put in place to run the day to day affairs of the department because the person that was doing it manages serveal departments; doesn't have the time nor the experince to get involved in everyday affairs.
Like said, I'm never hid anything away from my colleagues. I log everything, document what needs to be documented at the correct time and keep them inform verbally or via email when required. It's not like I'm new to the role or to the company. So it be a mighty small report if I did one anyway! But rather having regular meetings; which is what we been asking for as forsure if he needs to know; so does my other colleagues.
I'm going to be quite blunt and honest and say that even before he was made the boss. Out of the four in the department he is the worst for:
- time management; never gets anything done on time, so people would ask us to do it instead.
- Information flow; never tells us anything about the systems that he is looking after.
So a lot of the time when I'm doing something out of scope; which is what I think he's worried about... I'm covering his butt.
Anyway; I'm prepared to walk over this, worked out how much I need to live and prepared to take a paycut not to work under such a regime. No other department operates in such a manner and in all the places I worked for; and I have worked on the road where I've not touch base for months in a row, I have never required to do this.
One of my colleagues has been made the department manager, he was always a senior since I've join the company 5 years ago but was never my direct manager.
His position hasn't official been briefed out as far as I am aware, it's just been word of mouth and the way he's been acting.
Anyway, we have a small department 4 of us; we all work hard and are clearly understaff as we are looking to employ someone else. Working in IT I log everything I do in our job management system, document any project/system work as per industry standard, we also write a yearly review on ourselves as per company requirements.
But he now wants a weekly report on what we have done and what we are planning to do next week, which I flatly refused and explained to him why it shoudn't be required.
Quite frankly I feel insulted that I need to do this; I feel it's nothing but time and motion and for him to try and micromanage us when it's not required. It shows a lack of trust; in that we know what we are doing or will seek help when required! If he has an issue with a member of staff; be that me, he should address it with that member of staff and not change procedure and cause us more work.
I can understand such reports are required if a person is up for review, or if their manage serveal departments/areas/companies but this person was put in place to run the day to day affairs of the department because the person that was doing it manages serveal departments; doesn't have the time nor the experince to get involved in everyday affairs.
Like said, I'm never hid anything away from my colleagues. I log everything, document what needs to be documented at the correct time and keep them inform verbally or via email when required. It's not like I'm new to the role or to the company. So it be a mighty small report if I did one anyway! But rather having regular meetings; which is what we been asking for as forsure if he needs to know; so does my other colleagues.
I'm going to be quite blunt and honest and say that even before he was made the boss. Out of the four in the department he is the worst for:
- time management; never gets anything done on time, so people would ask us to do it instead.
- Information flow; never tells us anything about the systems that he is looking after.
So a lot of the time when I'm doing something out of scope; which is what I think he's worried about... I'm covering his butt.
Anyway; I'm prepared to walk over this, worked out how much I need to live and prepared to take a paycut not to work under such a regime. No other department operates in such a manner and in all the places I worked for; and I have worked on the road where I've not touch base for months in a row, I have never required to do this.
