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Jul. 12th, 2002 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravencallscrowsBack at work. Generally feeling better all around.
My boss continues to be a dichotomy, though.
On one hand he says he wants me to "concentrate all of my time on finding good, quality bugs" and then turns around and assigns me all of the department's scut work, which occupies my time with things that are usually completely counterproductive, and, almost always, are tasks which don't have a compelling reason why they need to be done with any immediacy at all.
I've given up trying to figure out the rhyme or reason behind his thinking. All i know is that i had exactly NO negative feedback from him in the entire time he's been my boss until i submitted my review, and since then i've apparently not done anything in a satisfactory manner, although i'm doing the exact same things now i've been doing for the past year.
There's obviously a breakdown in communication somewhere, so i'm going to let the nice people in HR do their jobs and try to figure out where it is and what can be done to ameliorate the situation.
I'm also going to remind them that i've asked to leave this group four times, and been categorically refused all four, with no particular explanation given. If i'm so damn unsatisfactory, it'd seem that they'd want to get rid of me, but apparently "my experience working with the group" is more valuable than having a motivated employee who's happy with the job. Since our release date has now slipped to June of next year, staying put would entail eleven more months of being miserable at work. I categorically refuse to subject myself to that.
I don't know. I'm just glad it's Friday, and i don't have to put up with this for the next two days. I'm not going to hold my breath for a resolution short of resigning my position because i've gotten a contract doing something else, but it'd certainly be nice.
My boss continues to be a dichotomy, though.
On one hand he says he wants me to "concentrate all of my time on finding good, quality bugs" and then turns around and assigns me all of the department's scut work, which occupies my time with things that are usually completely counterproductive, and, almost always, are tasks which don't have a compelling reason why they need to be done with any immediacy at all.
I've given up trying to figure out the rhyme or reason behind his thinking. All i know is that i had exactly NO negative feedback from him in the entire time he's been my boss until i submitted my review, and since then i've apparently not done anything in a satisfactory manner, although i'm doing the exact same things now i've been doing for the past year.
There's obviously a breakdown in communication somewhere, so i'm going to let the nice people in HR do their jobs and try to figure out where it is and what can be done to ameliorate the situation.
I'm also going to remind them that i've asked to leave this group four times, and been categorically refused all four, with no particular explanation given. If i'm so damn unsatisfactory, it'd seem that they'd want to get rid of me, but apparently "my experience working with the group" is more valuable than having a motivated employee who's happy with the job. Since our release date has now slipped to June of next year, staying put would entail eleven more months of being miserable at work. I categorically refuse to subject myself to that.
I don't know. I'm just glad it's Friday, and i don't have to put up with this for the next two days. I'm not going to hold my breath for a resolution short of resigning my position because i've gotten a contract doing something else, but it'd certainly be nice.
Thanks to all of you who are my friends for at least tolerating my nigh-unto-ceaseless bitching about this. I promise, as soon as things change, i'll stop...at least for a year or two.
