I’ve spent a long time thinking about this. I’ve worked at my company for 4 years. Sometimes I love it sometimes I hate it. For the most part I grin and bear it. I know there’s worse.
when I came to this workplace, I had a diff manager. She was, strange. She’d be nice to your face but want to make you look worse to SLT and higher management. I was drained by her.
She left, I went for her position (didn’t get it) which was fine and they offered me an alternative role which was a promotion but not as high, in the end, I took it, but I don’t feel happy with it. I feel I am capable of that role, they just took a different person on because she’s known to higher management.
It’s been 6 months, but yet, I still can’t warm to the new manager, it’s just not happening, nothing I can try to do will make me like her. I know she is the type of person who wants to feel important but pretends she’s not. She plays the nice card but I know that’s not really her. But I play the game nonetheless
Im young, but I’ve worked in enough places to know, she isn’t a good manager. It annoys me, I feel she tries to hard to be liked my people but not actually be a good manager.
I feel ready to move up the ladder. But leaving also feels like a huge decision. I’m 28, but I know I should be further up in my career than this, another man who was once a director, now much less senior told me “don’t be fooled by the term you need more experience. You’ll find 5 years pass and you’ll miss good opportunities, keep looking”
help , I feel so confused.