How would you feel if you saw this on your one to one form?

[Careermummy]

Hi,

I would appreciate your thoughts on something I’ve recently seen on my one to one.

A few months ago I was asked to take on tasks from another team to broaden my knowledge. I have started to do this and provided several examples this month to my manager. A few weeks ago I handed a piece of work over to that team, that had landed on my desk in error. I did not do this task due to lack of experience in this area & I had my own work that day to do. Later that day a mgr from that team sent it back to me saying I should be doing it with some basic steps to start. My job is time sensitive to clients so I sent it back explaining this was 3 hours later and it would take at least another hour for me to learn about that task before I would be able to call the client so it would be better for someone on the correct team to call the client ASAP. I have since taken time to learn more about that task.

In my one to one this month my manager has stated that although I followed procedures by sending the task to the correct team, any addditional tasks I have done for that team now essentially mean nothing because I sent that one task back to them to do.

How would this make you feel?

I’m not sure what you mean. What exactly was written down following your one to one?

I'd think the manager had lost the plot

any chance they phrased it badly and meant something else?!

Pretty worthless. Like one thing done with the best of intentions was more important than all the right things.

Id email and ask for clarification on that point. And probably update my cv because that would just be so demoralising.

I agree ask for clarification. If they are being petty just consider it a stepping stone job, learn all you can then move on.

In my one to one this month my manager has stated that although I followed procedures by sending the task to the correct team, any addditional tasks I have done for that team now essentially mean nothing because I sent that one task back to them to do

But is this what your manager actually wrote? Or your interpretation of it? I doubt your manager would have written the words any addditional tasks I have done for that team now essentially mean nothing

I think you need to talk it through with your manager and ensure you have accurately interpreted what they meant by that. You could end up souring the relationship unnecessarily if they've put something on the form that was poorly expressed. I know how damaging poor quality feedback can be, and managers are rarely trained on how to do it well. It's definitely a problem where I work.