Zoe Girl
12-3-15, 9:53am
I would like to say that somehow I am freakin' golden this year and that is a good feeling. However of course there are always issues. Yesterday we had 4 meetings back to back. iOne was a department meeting that has some space for 'shout outs'. Usually about 10-12 total. I got 3, yup, 3!! from different people! Somehow I am having a hard time letting that sink in but I know that is more about me than anything else. Still it was about doing a great job and about supporting other people as they learn new tasks I have done for awhile.
Meanwhile there was a guy who I thought was totally out of line in one of the meetings. Basically an accountant told us that things she needed were not tracked and causing a lot of work and mistakes, so she had a different system that was the same amount of time as the current one, provided a lot of informatin to all of us easily, and she wanted to use. This guy questioned it vigorously and so the management in the room invited him to the meetings and putting the change on hold. I felt like her expertise as an accountant was questioned in public by someone who runs site programming which makes me very uncomfortable. This is not the first time he has been rude in meetings in my (and many others) opinions. The other guy who was recently promoted has used swear words in meetings, actually kinda towards a manager about the subject, not directly telling her to f-off but her idea. Then he gets promoted and invited into these conversations. I don't do that but have concerns at time, voice them well as without swear words and in private most of the time (in my opinion and some feedback from others), am part of a task force to improve communication, and have negative things on my record. I have not been invited to groups discussing work that I specificallyl have done that no one else has been doing the last 3 years (and I asked that a group be formed).
I would like to think a lot of things have changed in the workforce since the 80's, we have a female department by a large percentage, yet I have seen that it is still much more acceptable for males to express their opinions. So since we have the communication task force today I think I am going to bring this up. A couple incidents I can say are personality, however this is more of a trend.
Meanwhile there was a guy who I thought was totally out of line in one of the meetings. Basically an accountant told us that things she needed were not tracked and causing a lot of work and mistakes, so she had a different system that was the same amount of time as the current one, provided a lot of informatin to all of us easily, and she wanted to use. This guy questioned it vigorously and so the management in the room invited him to the meetings and putting the change on hold. I felt like her expertise as an accountant was questioned in public by someone who runs site programming which makes me very uncomfortable. This is not the first time he has been rude in meetings in my (and many others) opinions. The other guy who was recently promoted has used swear words in meetings, actually kinda towards a manager about the subject, not directly telling her to f-off but her idea. Then he gets promoted and invited into these conversations. I don't do that but have concerns at time, voice them well as without swear words and in private most of the time (in my opinion and some feedback from others), am part of a task force to improve communication, and have negative things on my record. I have not been invited to groups discussing work that I specificallyl have done that no one else has been doing the last 3 years (and I asked that a group be formed).
I would like to think a lot of things have changed in the workforce since the 80's, we have a female department by a large percentage, yet I have seen that it is still much more acceptable for males to express their opinions. So since we have the communication task force today I think I am going to bring this up. A couple incidents I can say are personality, however this is more of a trend.