Do you have someone that ‘has your back’ at work?

[GloriousDay1]

I don’t at my current workplace and find it difficult. We don’t have line managers and my “mentor” is very self absorbed so I don’t like sharing things with him.

At my previous firm I had the loveliest manager - actually all the managers and partners were so lovely and I trusted them all implicitly to help if I asked for it. But I’m wondering if this isn’t the norm?

Perhaps I have just gone from one extreme to the other 🤣

Everyone apart from my line manager had my back at the last place, even the new guys. She wfh and I did what I wanted all the time but I was hugely popular because of how much I helped everyone

Everyone, from the newest Team member to the Manager does at my work. It's probably why I've been in this job the longest of anywhere I've worked. It is a great team to be part of.

No I don’t feel so.

The team leader I’m assigned seems to have awful memory issues. I get it rammed down my throat that a council is easiest to work for but in what decade. In the 90’s to the 00’s when.

The only person who asks how I currently feel is another new yet older starter who once joked thank the lord I don’t get ill in my first 12 months. Not exactly a laugh. Yet I have people’s prejudices to put up with. But it’s ok they know right yeah.

I thought I did in my last job, until I turned round one day and she stabbed me in it.

It's one of the reasons I left.

Current job, no, but I haven't been there long enough and I don't think it's that sort of place anyway.

I’ve only ever had one job where I had someone who truly had my back, actual loyalty, and that someone was, essentially, in love with me. We clicked immediately when I started there, started sleeping together, I called it off but he stayed firmly in my corner regardless.
I’m not convinced it is very common at all to have someone who has your back in a real sense, though often it seems you do until push comes to shove. I have felt supported at subsequent workplaces but never that thick and thin type loyalty again.

My office manager - she and l are fiercely loyal to each other