Lovely thread.
Following on from my shitty meeting yesterday, I had some boundary wins…
x5 colleagues approached me separately and said that the meeting was baffling, handled poorly, caused stress and should have been delivered by the manager who’d made the claims of poor practice (but denies this).
I emailed said manager and told her that what she’d asked our manager to say to us caused confusion and ill-feeling in our department and invited her to join our meeting next week to clarify and clear up our confusion.
She replied saying it was her fault for not communicating properly and that she will see me at some point. She came to find me and was extremely extremely slippery, changing the subject about 50 times, trying to distract me with other points but I continuously brought the conversation back to what we need her to do to make everyone feel sure that they’re doing the right thing.
She tried again and again to blame other people and suggested that people had taken this the wrong way (they hadn’t, she always gets our manager to do her dirty work for her).
I emailed her immediately after our chat to keep track of our agreed action points and hopefully now she’ll have to face us all and can’t blame anyone for the confusion.
More slippery than a politician covered in Vaseline!
I spoke to my friends and colleagues afterwards and told them that we need to really hold her to answering a question in plain terms to avoid ambiguity. We are all armed to not allow her to change the subject or play games as she always does.
This works well on three levels.
A) We will all know what we need to be doing/ not doing.
B) My lovely manager who always gets caught in the middle of our team and this other woman gets to hand it over to her.
C) Slippery lady can’t lie.
Boom Boom for boundary wins!
Don’t ever be scared to Tell the bastards to F off! It feels great and they deserve it! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼