I'm over 10 years into my field, but only a couple years experience at my specialized role.
I got hired at my dream company. It's a household name and I'm employed through an agency. My contract doesn't have a limit. I've been at the company 6 months.
The manager who hired me and that I worked with for the first few months was a dream - she trained me as much as possible, gave excellent feedback and advice and was so professional, we had great chemistry. Unfortunately, she went on maternity leave early and left her coworker (same seniority) as the acting manager. The difference is like night and day.
The acting manager has incredibly high standards, a big ego and a very laid back attitude to work processes. I also think he misses the mark with his work a lot but he's senior so I can't say anything. He also doesn't explain himself very well.
This opinion is shared by at least one other coworker.
Since the beginning, he seemed uninterested in managing and it showed, so I never considered him my real manager and no one called him that officially.
We are both assigned to collaborate with different teams in the company but sometimes we share a project (with me doing the work and him leading our part of the work aka bulldozing me). The shared work is where there's a problem. The teams also have different processes of working or none at all. I was left to figure out how to work with them on my own.
When I'm working with teams on my own, everything is great, I only ask for his guidance sometimes. Usually to do with how to approach people or internal processes.
I'd ask for guidance or advice about processes or feedback and he'd ask me to show him my work and then goes over it with a fine tooth comb like it's my first job. I have to stop and explain the project from the beginning, explain my thought process, leaving me feeling like I was under a microscope.
Sometimes he would find a few mistakes and try to offer suggestions or asked me to redo a few things his way. Sometimes I got great feedback, other times it sounded like he had a different opinion due to taste (we are in the creative field) so felt free to ignore it.
This snowballed into him not trusting me to do my job and micromanaging the projects we share. Sometimes he would give me work (unrelated to any project) just to test me. It got to be so I constantly felt he was judging me, even when I was just trying to make idle conversation. He would schedule weekly meetings under the guise of helping me and syncing together but it was just so he could go over my work and pick it apart, even if all the team leads were happy with it.
Team 1: I start a project, get feedback from them that it's great but he doesn't approve. We change it until he approves it but the stakeholders weren't happy. I still get feedback from this team about how great I was working with them and how he interfered with what they wanted.
Team 2: I started a project that nearly all the stakeholders said was very problematic and required much more work from others before it got to me.
My manager would be in the meetings and basically bulldoze me. Teammates didn't know who to refer to or would go through him instead of talking to me. The person passing the work to me would change his work almost daily but the team didn't include me in the collaboration. I had to chase after people to be included in meetings. The day before a big review, I was given a deadline to finish my part of the project. I did it, but it wasn't put into what was shown. It was blamed on me, that I missed a deadline, when no I didn't, my work was just ignored.
Basically, the project was being rammed through without collaboration and requirements kept changing day to day. There were a couple things to tidy up that I would get to when the project developed more (and would likely change again) when it finally came my way again. All team members were aware of this and I wasn't holding anyone up from doing their jobs.
My manager and I synced on it and I complained about the lack of collaboration and processes or adherence to processes and the person I'm supposed to collaborate with being non communicative/cooperative. He didn't take kindly to it and kept sticking up for them, as if I were badmouthing, but I wasn't.
He then tasked me with completing the project, even though I still had lots of time. When we were going over what needed to be done, I brought up the fact that I did the work a hundred different ways and he just kept turning it down, it wasn't good enough. He'd ask to do it another way, I'd come back with what he asked for and I'd get turned down again. Finally, he just did it himself and it was really awful, but he's supposed to be the manager so I didn't say anything. I said we could test different versions but he acted like I gave the worst answer in the world.
Team 3: I got a vague task from a team leader that went against all protocol. After weeks of back and forth on the project with my manager ( I kept trying things different ways, he kept turning it down, saying don't feel bad, this is a really hard task!) I felt it all came down to opinion and I needed more guidance from the person who gave me the vague task. Turns out, he was trying to do something in a roundabout way, stepping on another departments territory and I brought it to their attention. Next thing I know, I see him and my manager having a private meeting about the project.
I lead 3 other projects/work with 3 other teams independently and I get great feedback and collaboration from them. There are no problems there.
According to my agency, I'm being terminated for missing deadlines, subpar quality work and a bad attitude. Apparently my manager just wants someone he can give work to and they'll just do it without questions. I was trained that we're supposed to collaborate and I'm allowed to ask questions!
They've invited me to meet at the agency offices to hear my side and then make a decision.
Part of me feels like this is a lost cause, but I still want to plead my case. Im angry and it feels so unfair.
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