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Subject:Re: Challenging and oppressive SME situation From:Sella Rush <sellar -at- APPTECHSYS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:32:45 -0700
You've already gotten some great advice. I'll add just one more comment
about one of your concerns.
You stated that you're afraid your boss thinks you're a whiner because
you've tried to follow his initial instructions and only bother him when
you've got a problem.
This is fairly easy to solve--tell him you're doing this, and remind him of
that early conversation. You could do this as part of a "how am I doing"
talk.
The reason I advocate this is because I've had a somewhat similar
experience. My relationship with my manager was based on a conversation we
had just prior to my accepting the job. After two years of a puzzlingly
rocky relationship, I mentioned the conversation in passing, and he had
absolutely no recollection of our conversation. We were working at cross
purposes the entire time.
Sella Rush mailto:sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com
Applied Technical Systems (ATS)
Bremerton, Washington
Developers of the CCM Database
