Advice on a work related issue....
Possibly not the correct forum for this, so apologies if wrong
Wondering if anyone has any experience in dealing with workplace related issues similar to the one I am experiencing. Basically, I moved to a new job about 6 months ago. My old job was stable, but boring and this job seemed to offer far more challenging work and it was a more senior position. To be fair the actual work is fairly challenging, but that's not my gripe.
I found out fairly early on that a few of my co-workers had applied for my job and not been successful. One of them seems to have taken this really to heart and has been off with me since I started. Recently he's started trying to undermine me - pre-empting me in meetings, trying to make me look incompetent in front of others etc. Usual jealous type and to be honest I couldn't care whether he likes me or not - it's not my problem I got the job and he didn't. A few days ago I decided I was going to try and engage him in some work I was doing as part of my more senior role (keep your friends close and your enemies closer and all that) and all I got was a load of negativity about how he should be doing the role (not in so many words, but pretty obvious from the context of the conversation) so I just thought "well, I've tried" and left it there. Then the next day there was a long email from the employee, suggesting a lot of the things I had talked about just the previous day, so had to put him straight on that one! Lesson learnt I think as well! I've heard from other people that this person really was upset off about not getting the job, so I don't think its me being overly sensitive.
Anyway, today I had a meeting to present something I had been working on - quite an important piece of work, or so I thought. Was working with another, more senior colleague on it and we'd come up with what I thought was a concrete set of proposals, which I then presented to people more senior than me and explained in great detail. Only at the end of the meeting was it revealed that my boss and my colleague had a meeting previously and decided we were doing virtually none of the proposals (even ones we had previously agreed we were) leaving me wondering what the point was of doing this if I had no say in it. I felt a bit of a fool to be honest, enthusing about the benefit of things that aren't gonna happen and were never gonna happen - almost like they were just humouring me.
So anyway I was just wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar in the workplace and how they dealt with it. I'm intending to have a chat with my boss Monday to try and find out what exactly my role is supposed to be, but obviously with being relatively new I don't want to push it too hard.
Secondly has anyone ever had a permanent job where it's only lasted a matter of months (less than a year anyway)? I'm not intending to leave just yet, but don't think I could handle working in an environment where I feel like I am being constantly undermined. Previous job was 9 years and my job record is A1 up to now, plus the stuff I've read reckons one short-term job that doesn't work out won't go against you - would be interested to hear if anyone has experience of this.
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