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Hmmm. At the risk of asking the obvious question: Have you told your new
boss what the problem is? Maybe she got a mistaken impression from the
outgoing person. Sounds like the two of you didn't have much of a
relationship.
"Hey, you know, I work for you, but we haven't talked at all and I'm
really unclear about your expectations." Keep it short and sweet. No
need to start in with the "why haven't you noticed how valuable I am"
speech. Try to find out *why* she's not managing you. That's the only
way to know how to counteract. From there you get to pick how you
address the situation.
Lisa
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Karen E. Black
<snip>
About 6 weeks ago, a new quality assurance manager was hired (my new
boss).
On the first day she was introduced to and had meetings with the rest of
the
QA team (QA analysts) and was introduced to all the BAs and had meetings
with them in the first week. I met her when I walked into her cubicle
looking for the person who used to sit in there. I introduced myself, we
shook hands, and we didn't speak again for 4 weeks. This isn't any
different, incidentally, from my last manager; if we weren't both
smokers,
we would never have spoken at all.
Now I don't mind being minimally managed, and with clear direction I'm
just
as happy to work on my own, but this is getting ridiculous. I sit with
the
business analysts but I'm not one of them; I am part of the QA team but
I
don't sit with them or work with them either. I'm getting tired of
trying to
market myself and the value I can add to projects, processes, and
existing
systems with no support, no direction, no management. /whining off
</snip>
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