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Am I wrong to feel offended by...

SciFiGreg

Am I wrong in feeling offended that a task I've been performing for over a year has now been assigned to someone else, with someone other than myself supervising them?

Said supervisor hasn't consulted me and has disregarded my documentation / process.

Feels like a massive FU to me.

My work colleague tells me not to take it personally.

I'm growing tired of people spouting things like...

"Don't take it personally", "You're not the only one this affects", "I don't understand your problem", etc.

Management at work do my head in.

  • I've been there many times in my job and it's hard not to take it personally. They gave you a job which you did excellently so they assume that the next person will be just as adept. My approach is to quietly step back and allow the new person to either mess it up or come to me for help. If neither of those things happen then I know I maybe overreacted. 

  • To me it sounds like poor communication and management on their part rather than any reflection on you.  If tasks are reassigned then it makes sense for the smooth running of the organisation not to mention staff morale to keep all parties informed.  

    I appreciate it's difficult not to take it personally, but I would probably bring it up at the next reasonable opportunity (any 1:1s or other review, perhaps) just to check whether there were any reasons you should be aware of.  Also, just to confirm it wasn't personal, I'd notice how this person behaves with other employees.  Perhaps they're like this all the time? 

       

  • in reply to Plastic

    Nah. I'm still doing everything else but it seems very odd that I haven't been consulted even though I took ownership of the process, designed reports and devised the testing process that everyone said they were happy with.

    Now said task has been assigned to someone with no experience and I haven't even been spoken to about said process / testing so it seems like all my work has just been binned.

  • I assume you feel like you've been downgraded?   What are you doing instead of this task?   Is there more scope to pick up something else that's more interesting?

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