Posted by pegasus on February 28, 2005, at 15:31:59
In reply to sticky work situation w/boss - help!?, posted by pegasus on February 25, 2005, at 19:09:30
First, thanks to everyone who weighed in here. It helps to have different perspectives. I spoke briefly to my boss today, and he said that he was just thinking that we needed to be proactive on this, and was worried that some of the key people we needed to get info from were leaving town later this week. And also, he was thinking that he needed to be informed about this project, because I was leaving soon. I asked him if he wanted to be involved in the planning meetings for all of my projects, for the same reason. He hesitated (because the answer is that no he doesn't - this one just seemed more important because the CEO is involved), and then said yes that was probably a good idea. And he did say that he'd cancel his meeting tomorrow that I can't go to anyway. Then we ran out of time.
I still have a lot of questions for him such as:
1. What did he think he was going to do with whatever information he gathered tomorrow in my absence? Was he going to start making a plan in my absence? Was he going to hand the info over to me?
2. Why is he so worried about this one project, when he never offered to help with any of my other projects that also need to be done before I leave?
3. Why didn't he check with me first, before he became so uncharacteristically "proactive"? It's not like I was on the moon. I'm just a phone call away, even on my day off.I'm still quite annoyed, but it looks like it won't be a big deal. I think I'll mostly just lump it from here on out. Although I am definitely going to invite him to the planning meetings for all of my projects now, just to make a point.
Thanks again for listening to me.
pegasus
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