I'm so angry and I really need to find a way to formulate my thoughts more articulately.
I've been given a dotted line boss for a few months, nice guy but if he's not off ill, his cars broken, the road is bad, or he needs to take his child ( adult) to the hospital for tests about what is a fairly minor matter. Meaning he misses meetings with no notice, doesn't phone to let me know he isn't coming, doesn't apologise afterwards.
Unsure what to do as he was a couple of grades above me, eventually I raised it with my sort of dotted line manager. Apparently I should make my expectations clear to him ( cause clearly I'm being unreasonable expecting him to turn up and do his job), all this even though he reports in on my performance so I don't want to tick him off. Have I mentioned he's quite senior to me?
So fair enough tried to set up a meeting, but shock horror, he didn't turn up - can't remember what reason was this time.
Now I'm getting him again next year, and other boss has emailed me to say that I need to make my expectations clear to him. He missed another meeting yet again as off sick. Oh and I suspect I'm getting marked down in my EOY appraisal for not managing the situation more successfully although I did above and beyond as he wasn't there to do his job.
I'm beyond peed off with the situation.
I have a meeting with her on Wednesday.
What I want to say is that I shouldn't need to have a conversation with someone who's my senior to let them know that it would be nice if they turned up occasionally. It's not my responsibility to monitor if he's in or not and I just need to know who to escalate it to when he's off sick or the dogs eaten his homework and if it's her can she do something about it rather than making it up to me.
So how do I say that without sounding bolshy as at the minute I don't feel particularly objective about it all.
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So now I'm apparently responsible for the attendance/performance of a much more senior person than me
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rookiemere · 14/12/2015 18:49
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