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OP2, I’ve got to wonder if this is the sole issue with this manager, or what his managerial skills are like overall. Whenever I’ve encountered the type of manager who pays more attention to the appearances of being busy (arriving early, staying late, not taking holidays, much keyboard tapping) over and above the actual quality of the work, or the work output at all, that person usually has no earthly idea what they’re doing.
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Honestly I think I’d just try to start fresh with these people and *not* tie your connections on this past run-in 9 years ago. Look for them at a conference now in your current role. Ask them for a coffee or ask to sit with them at X or Y panel. Talk about what you’re doing now and ideally don’t make an ask right away. Then later you can look for opportunities to be mutually beneficially in your current role.
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In reply to Da Analyst. There’s no reason why someone who has a decent amount of experience, which it sounds like Jackie does, should have lower quotas that her colleagues at the same experience level. Having a kid doesn’t exempt you from work requirements.
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I’m a former ELT teacher (English language teaching to adults – TEFL basically). I don’t know if that’s LW2’s industry but it sounds like everything I’m about to say would be relevant anyway. Unfortunately what LW2 describes was extremely pervasive in the whole industry and in all the countries I’ve worked in – Italy, Greece, the US, and Ireland.
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#2 – are you the only IT person, or is your manager from a company where he was the only IT person? IT is a profession where because we do a lot of magic, there’s a lot of companies where we’re not “allowed” to take time off, especially if something catches fire. I work with a guy who is our sole developer of in-house software and resident know-it-all for the procedures and voodoo that goes into it.
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In reply to Susannah. Yes, this forum is quick to speak up when workers are being treated unfairly compared to their coworkers with kids. But giving Jackie leeway to leave early and not meet quota, while maintaining the same employment status, would be precisely that. So you can’t have it both ways.
In reply to kate. I agree wholeheartedly. When I had my second child, I had a boss who became upset when I arrived 10-15 minutes late in the morning…for a job that was a management/sales function with no need to be perfectly on time. It burned me up. Finally after a morning of him pouting that I was late, I asked him what his morning routine was to get ready for work.
I doubt anyone would bring it up, but if they do can you spin it this way: “I am so grateful for my internship experience with X Company. I was given some great guidance and feedback from other that has really helped me excel in my career. I have been able to use in to grow and advance in my career over the last 8 years.” It recognizes that you learned a lot, and have incorporated the feedback in a positive way.
In reply to Any Mouse. Ok, formatting got me. Here is what I was trying to say: “I am so grateful for my internship experience with X Company. I was given some great guidance and feedback from other that has really helped me excel in my career. I have been able to use in to grow and advance in my career over the last 8 years.
I think I’d address this by zooming out to the broad problem, and then asking the manager for his input: “I’m soliciting advice from managers about hiring, and making sure we’re hiring the best people” that opens the conversation, and then at some point in the conversation I’d just call it as I see it “in your case for example, your team are all excellent workers, and they also happen to be good-looking women. how does that happen from a hiring process p
In reply to Annie. Same here — I’m the admin for our team, so the protocol is to send a quick response to say it’s done. Some processes generate their own emails anyway, but I’m expected to copy the person who asked me to do it so they know it’s been requested. Then the team on the other side of the desk know to copy them in on any updates.
In reply to Magdalena. Same here. Calling us scabs for wanting more than what we were allotted by our background or starting situation (I wasn’t disadvantaged in terms of upbringing, but have neurological problems that I’ve had to struggle with to build any semblance of a career at all) as someone did above is horrible, and not in any way conducive to social mobility and progress for those of us with disadvantages in our background who nonetheless want more.
In reply to Frances. I think I agree with the overall sentiment of this, but this is—as someone above already said—wildly overgeneralized. For example, I work in higher ed, and I leave at 4 pm pretty much every day; not one person bats an eye because they’ve either already left themselves or packing up their things to leave. Every once in a while, a last-minute task or assignment will get dropped in our team’s lap, but I hesitate to even mention it because it’s such a rare occu
In reply to Mouse. 100 82705 0 82705 0 0 13294 0 --:--:-- 0:00:06 --:--:-- 20599 This, so much! Speaking as an educator — and to put this a bit crassly — we know we don’t graduate Fully Finished Products. It’s our job to boost students up the learning curve, but there’s still plenty of curve to climb after graduation day.
In reply to Insert Pun Here. I recently underwent a panel interview where one of my interviewers had been a summer intern in my office 12 years ago. I did not recognize her and could not have told you how she was as an intern, though I guess she was fine since she has continued working in my field and we will be colleagues! We had several interns and I wasn’t responsible for hiring or managing her, but still.
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