From what you have described there might be a bit of a harsh truth that no one has said to you in a straight up way. Reading between the lines, they are saying you are poor at communicating task progress, which means probably stuffing other people around causing workplace inefficiencies and pissed off coworkers, because they donât know the status of things. All jobs have boring components. Doing just the fun bits of your job and leaving the boring bits for others will lead to resentment from coworkers in every single workplace. Changing jobs wonât help this. I think you have to look at it from a team perspective. So I reckon use the grace period they are giving you to turn things around, it will be an asset for the rest of your career if you can overcome this. If I have misread the situation very sorry! Am just trying to help with another perspective.
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tombruzzo@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
I just had the Performance Agreement meeting and I still have my job. The review period is being extended and Iâm being given a written warning. I have another month to just try do what they want from me. I can do the actual work required of me, itâs all the following up with people and adding comments here and there about whatâs being done thatâs the issue. Itâs the most frustrating and boring part of the job for me, but this is a more corporate setting and thatâs whatâs important to them.
SituationCake@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
tombruzzo@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
It is an issue thatâs come up in roles before and I donât know the best way to manage it. Iâve had jobs where Iâve been really good at getting things done and following up with people, and some where it just hasnât worked out.
Iâve had jobs where I get the service request, do it, let the stakeholder know, and things are all good. Maybe itâs because I need to work on multiple steps within a project thatâs throwing me off.
Iâm trying to be better at things today but I just feel like Iâm jumping around between things and not getting anything done and Iâm not sure how to structure my workload better to at least feel like Iâm managing it better
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
At least youâve got something to work with. And some more time to job hunt, if you end going that way.
It sounds like pretty shit management if this is the approach theyâre taking rather than just coaching you on what they need.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâm figuring out the balance of what I need to do vs whatâs expected of me and how to best deliver that.
On thing I picked up on today is a task in our project management software has a bunch of subtasks inside it, but in the description instead of as subtasks. This would be easy to miss as is. Iâve gone ahead and created ask those tasks as subtasks so I can see them easier and track them.
So for my own sake I need to break tasks down more because what Iâm provided isnât fully comprehensive and not specific to the project.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
soo, just do the work
and maybe look at other jobs just in case
tombruzzo@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Yeah, Iâm going to have to set aside more time to do all the followup and make sure things are marked complete or move things around. I can get a bit sloppy with that because I always want to move onto the next thing. I might need to use more reminders and put more things in my calendar for myself
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Try using Microsoft To-Do. Works really well for me to track things. I also use one note as my personal workbook.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
I think I need to do more things like that. Get things out of the shitty intranet and into one note.
We use Asana at work so either I make more tasks for myself there or use something like to-do. The main thing is I need to refer to it regularly