Its a work one...

[Peachy1381]

So, not sure if I'm being unreasonable or not - so please weigh in hive mind.

I'm responsible for the content on my organisations intranet and I opened my laptop today to a couple of message from colleagues discussing and wondering why a specific thing was not mentioned on our site. A cross departmental email list was used when the discussion is only relevant to those directly in our team.

The 'thing' this year isn't a public one and also there is only one of me doing my specific function, no one else has the skills set to do this work. These last few weeks I've been working hard on the non-public thing and a hundred other things besides.

I'm not being told off exactly but it felt critical and insensitive to discuss this on an email list that includes my bosses boss and important contacts within the organisation. I can't image I'd ever openly discuss people's work or what they should or haven't done in the same way. We are peers in terms of the organisations hierarchy.

Also aware that generally I am more emotional than normal at the moment about to start round 2 IVF after a hell-fire round 1. Don't want to throw my toys out the pram if I should just be taking this in my stride.

So.... am I being unreasonable or not?

YANBU - You shouldn't discuss peoples work like this and I'd say something ie - it would be great if in future we could use a non-cross department mailing list for discussions like this.

YABU - suck it up, these things happen and you're being a bit sensitive.

if they have included a big cc list the only thing to do is to reply all that it's not a public thing.

And add that if anyone has issues with the content to come to you directly as it's not the kind of thing that should be taking up management's time.

Good luck with the IVF

Nah, not unreasonable at all but sadly it's how others see the intranet / communications.

I'd just forward to my manager and say you found the email disappointing as no one came to you directly with instructions/content/reminders about the thing. Say you've booked out two hours every two weeks to update the intranet and could they take this content calendar and get all the teams to highlight any deadlines. If they want you to generate the content and keep on top of stuff, they need to move other work around.

If you go with solutions they look like the dickheads, hopefully you've got a decent boss who would stick up for you. I'd never let anyone treat my team like this but I've met many weak managers who would.

Then, don't think about it anymore and good luck with the ivf