So having been promoted for a few months now I can say it's even worse than I imagined. The other person who was supposed to be second senior (not of much help but always better with some than with none) moved to other department and I was promised that someone else will take over but it's already been 4 months since that promise and I'm still alone. My boss got assigned as a boss to few other teams as well so we rarely ever see her any more, and she seriously lost touch with our day-to-day issues... We were also as a part of PR project forced to "help out" other departments under the theory of "teamwork". Which basically means what it always meant: the people who have lots of work and are able to manage it are forced to help those who do nothing (except for taking coffee breaks) because they can't manage with their overwork stressed ... You want help from someone else - forget it. I've tried to talk with my boss that it's all far too much for me alone to handle and I got myself help for easy jobs so I can concentrate on more complicated ones. Theoretically. In practice it looks like: "Oh so 1 is overworked Spark borrow M to 1 for a day or so, I know she's supposed to be yours but you're a senior you can handle for one day" And then another, and another and another... I'm lucky if I have "mine" help for two days a month... Obviously I've also tired to switch department - enough is enough. But here goes: Well you're great in practice and we know you can work hard and learn anything but you don't have financial education. Seriously? Half of my department is studying finance and can't even do arithmetic without calculator... I don;t even know how many times I had to explain to them how to calculate percentages and currency exchange rates... But hey - I don't have the paper so it doesn't mean anything that I understand how things work. And of course "but it would be such a shame to loose you from AP" (well of course since my boss doesn't have time to deal with their issues any more so it all falls on me hell knows what would happen if I left)... And my personal favourite - "But you already know so much why not apply straight for analytic?" (right after I was told I have no chances for much lower position because of lack of formal education in finance)... And I've always been telling them that those "prestigious" analytic tasks which I do are what I hate, it is for me extremely boring... To do just that for 8 hours straight each day would kill me - but no... I've also had agreement with my boss that I can do all technical stuff but I don't want to get involved in all those pointless meetings where everybody pats everybody back and all that bull... Another promise broken it's only Wednesday and I've already been delegated to two of them to waste time while I have work of four people to do (3 persons out of office due to sickness and one left the job I do my own duties backup for my TL and for two of them of course my prescribed help is helping everybody else because "You're you you can handle for a day" and then another and another)... One more month of this and I think I'll seriously throw my papers without backup plan (happened before)...
Spark of Water · Wed Feb 07, 2018 @ 05:00am · 0 Comments |