So a few years later.. I'm still not getting responses to emails or telephone calls; no 1-1s, no appraisals, no support. Projects that I'm asked to start never get completed as I get so far before needing guidance or authorisation which he never has time for, so those projects are left, gathering dust. All I seem to be able to do is start but never finish anything - simply because he has started something else and the other project is left, and he has no time for it. Today, I worked all afternoon on a project only then to be told by another member of staff that actually, the message I had received wasn't entirely correct and therefore the work I had done wasn't actually needed. I was bloody fuming especially when the emotional intelligence level of the other person is zero, and they couldn't hear my frustrated sighs.
I've got so many emails sitting in my inbox because they all need action from one colleague or another but despite nudges and other reminders, they never respond. I seem to spend 3/4 of my time chasing people for responses so that I can do the job I'm paid to do. I'm not doing this for fun.. Friends say, let it go.. but I'm too conscientious. And chasing people for a simple yes please, or no thanks, or whatever, takes seconds to write on an email and thereby oiling the wheels that turn the great machine.
It's like 2 steps forward, 5 steps backwards. I cannot emphasise how frustrating my job is, how soul destroying it is becoming, how utterly demotivated I am. I'm a hard-worker who enjoys being constructive, proactive and busy, finishing one job to focus on another. It is excruciating painful for me to have three or four big projects hanging around for a year or more because colleagues don't have the time to respond to calls, emails, or meetings. I just don't see the point of my job or purpose.
The lack of communication, collaboration and teamwork is exasperating and isolating. I don't feel I am able to achieve anything worthwhile in this type of environment, and it seems no-one cares if you do or don't. No job satisfaction at all which is sad.
And no, I have no-one I can speak with about this. Literally no-one.
Yes, I've looked for other jobs but nothing so far. Frankly, I had high expectations when I came to this job, but sadly, I'm very, very disappointed.