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I just had the Performance Agreement meeting and I still have my job. The review period is being extended and I'm 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, it's all the following up with people and adding comments here and there about what's being done that's the issue. It's the most frustrating and boring part of the job for me, but this is a more corporate setting and that's what's important to them.
soo, just do the work
and maybe look at other jobs just in case
Yeah, I'm 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
Try using Microsoft To-Do. Works really well for me to track things. I also use one note as my personal workbook.
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
At least you've 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 they're taking rather than just coaching you on what they need.
I'm figuring out the balance of what I need to do vs what's 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. I've 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 I'm provided isn't fully comprehensive and not specific to the project.
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 donβt 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 wonβt 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.
It is an issue that's come up in roles before and I don't know the best way to manage it. I've had jobs where I've been really good at getting things done and following up with people, and some where it just hasn't worked out.
I've had jobs where I get the service request, do it, let the stakeholder know, and things are all good. Maybe it's because I need to work on multiple steps within a project that's throwing me off.
I'm trying to be better at things today but I just feel like I'm jumping around between things and not getting anything done and I'm not sure how to structure my workload better to at least feel like I'm managing it better