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Work rant - advice needed
Sorry ahead for the rant, but I had to get this off my chest somewhere!
Background: My previous manager retired in January and for 4 months, we had a part-time consultant helping us out. That consultant wound up getting the position and started full-time in the middle of April. So she's been here now as our official manager for 4 months.
Long story short - work now sucks. I used to love my job. I loved my manager - she gave me the freedom to do my work independently and I got to be creative (I'm a writer, so this is essential). Now, the new manager is overbearing and disrespectful. She will re-write my stuff for no reason (or for no apparent reason). Not even coming back to me to say "I don't like this, re-do it", but just doing it herself and not telling me. She undermines me and my experience here and it's driving me nuts. She's one of those managers who doesn't manage the work flow or the people, but rather she wants to manage the work itself and DO the work. Managers shouldn't DO the work! You have workers to do the work. You should manage those works and you should be planning and strategizing and organizing. But as she was a consultant in her previous life, she can't let go of the doing part of the work.
The problem is that my job is very cushy - I get paid a lot of money for my field and considering I'm not in management. We're unionized, have excellent benefits, an unheard of pension plan and I like the other people I work with.
I don't know what to do. I'm too young to be looking forward to retirement, but I'm not young enough to be hopping from job to job anymore. I did the jumping around for years and I thought I had finally found a place where I could settle down and be happy at. It will be very hard (although not impossible) to find another job in my field that will be as good benefit/pay-wise as what I have right now. Ideally I'd like to fix things here, but I can't tell her what she's doing is wrong!
Any advice?!
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Sounds like she just isn't well suited for that job, like you said if she has issues with your work she should come back to you to fix it. Sounds like she likes things done a certain way and if they aren't she's going to fix them so they are.
Could you talk with her about it? Something along the lines of "saw you are re-writting things of mine and I just want to let you know I'm willing to re-write sections etc if needed, it will help take some work load from you." I don't know if that will help any, otherwise is there someone else you can reach out to, another manager?
That sounds terrible. You obviously realize the benefits of staying, but it sucks to be unhappy!
I would try and talk to your new manager about it. Like PP said, maybe talking to her about how you like to take ownership of your writing, and if she wanted to walk through it with you about the kind of writing she's looking for, maybe you could re-write it yourself?
Good luck!
This is a good way to aproach it.
I don't like it when people end up in manager positions that shouldn't. It just makes for unhappy employees and bad business. You can see if anyone else has similar problems with her and see what they did (if anything). Hopefully it gets better and you start to like your job again.
Wow, your situation sounds really similar to mine. When I first started at my job I had a really great boss. After she got promoted, I unfortunately, got a not so great boss. Work for the past 8+ months has been hell.Your boss sounds a lot like mine in the way she micromanages etc
Like you, my job is cushy, get paid pretty well and my vacation and health benefits are great. For that reason, I decided not to leave the company, but rather look for a similar position in a new department.
Is it possible for you to find another department at your job? You wouldn't necessarily be leaving the company, just switching to a new department? That way it wouldn't make it look like you were job hopping, and you would still get to see he co-workers you liked. GL in whatever you choose to do!