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Co-irker vent, kind of.
I've was asked this week to become the project manager of this new project that should be very interesting and comprehensive, and cut across my whole division of my organization (covering about a dozen operating companies in our portfolio). This is good news.
The person who is in charge of the project (head of legal dept) suggested that I spend time with the person who ran this project for the main/corporate part of the company, to learn about scope, lessons learned, etc.
There's a little bit of a gray area, because that person may view that our part of the company SHOULD fall under HER project, but we're independent enough that it doesn't. So, I need to tread lightly in the politics of connecting with her.
I reached out to her, and she said she'd of course make time for me, and find time on her calendar and invite (Jane Doe), on her team.
Ugh. I freaking HATE Jane Doe. She used to work on my floor and we had a project that she was a contractor on, so in interfaced with her a bit and found her to be such a waste of space and a pain in my axx. And now I need to go hear about all the "value" she's brought to this project, that I need to learn from. She's totally going to be like, "you need to do this and do that, and don't do this, and don't do that, and report back to us" and blah blah blah. I have to be fake nice to her in this meeting, and she'll KNOW I'm being fake nice, because she knows I find her super annoying and always tried to avoid her many attempts to connect with me personally.
Blurgh. Way to ruin my professional buzz.
And, Yes, I know I'm being a baby. I get that.
Re: Co-irker vent, kind of.
1st congrats on being asked to be a project manager for something like that. 2nd how does she know you find her annoying was it a specific incident where you made no bones about how you felt or do you think she has gotten a general feeling.
I guess either way it still sucks I hope she can't come.
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Thanks! I'm excited about the project, and it's a big deal, and I don't want to screw it up! :-)
I think she knows I don't care for her for 2 reasons:
1) because she was always trying to engage in personal conversations with me like "hey, have you been to this restaurant" or tell me things about her personal life, and I never really engaged beyond the superficial, though she tried regularly.
2) I didn't find her to be very competent on her project over in my group and would share my concerns about her approach on things pretty regularly. Did so in a professional manner, of course, but I used to get the impression that she took it personally
There are stories that I know about her and her behavior (gossipy, trying to get confidential information from some of my HR colleagues about things she has no access to, etc) that she likely DOESN'T know I know, too.... but that wouldn't necessarily be a part of our dynamic.
Oof, that sucks! I'm sure you'll get through it with all the right words as usual.
Congrats on the new opportunity!