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« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2006, 01:22:02 pm » |
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Nickless You need to explain clearly to dad what the problems are with junior, and he needs to explain to him what your role is and get him to let go and deal with it. Sorry I wrote this before reading this page of posts. You need to make it clear to dad that you can't continue in this role as it is, they asked you to take it on so they must have thought you could do it (and you can, I know you can) but if junior can't or won't let go, he needs to be made to or else you stop doing the job, they find somebody else (external or internal) who is going to last exactly the same time again and then they're at square one - again. And it'll just keep happening, though for how long before they realise?!! Lay it on the line. Junior plays ball or you're leaving the game - now. Jackie, Peer Moderator www.iqps.org |
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« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2006, 01:54:55 pm » |
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How old is this child? Sounds as though we haven't got through the teenage angst years. Dear me.
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nickless
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« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2006, 09:40:19 am » |
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Yes, that's how I feel quite often: "welcome to the playground". You should think we're all grown-ups and can work together and talk like adults... Junior is away for 3 days now, which will give me time to work on a marketing campaign I've been thinking about for a while. I've got the wording, just need to throw something together so that people will take the time to read and reply. nickless  |
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« Reply #18 on: March 06, 2006, 01:22:47 pm » |
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When Junior came back from the trade fair, I had put a couple of sample reply letters on his desk, to be sent as a follow-up to those potential customers who had visited our stand. I had also given him 3 adverts which could be printed on an A5 folded card and sent out as a mailshot.We've subscribed to a huge database, and are slowly working our way through it. At the beginning of the year, Junior had told me he was planning to use this database to send out a mailshot early this year. I've just found all 5 items in the bin. He hasn't even talked to me about any of them. If he doesn't talk to me, and I don't know what he wants, how can I do a good job??? I'm gutted. nickless |
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« Reply #19 on: March 06, 2006, 03:14:59 pm » |
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He obv doesn't see this as a valuable exercise and not only that, but he's taken umbrage at the fact that you have been pro-active and initiated this. As I said before you cannot win.....sometimes IMO being pro-active means you take away their freedom to think and act for themselves.
Unless he acts you to carry out these jobs, I wouldn't bother, however why don't you call his bluff, dig the items out of the bin and confront him about it (professionally of course).
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« Reply #20 on: March 06, 2006, 04:21:19 pm » |
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Confront him?  NEVER. I'm too much of a coward to do that! Oh, how I wished they hadn't given me that marketing job in the first place! I've usually been happy here (apart from the odd day), but this year has been dreadful, and I can't face being here any more. By lunchtime, I usually think "I'll take a sick day tomorrow", but then never do it anyway. Wouldn't be fair to the colleagues. Perhaps I should just take the whole marketing stuff, and hand it back to him. nickless |
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« Reply #21 on: March 06, 2006, 04:40:32 pm » |
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You know what, that might be best since you are not really progressing it. Might do no harm to ask him what it is he really wants and if it's a priority. Tell him you have other jobs that are more pressing. Lay it back on him and let me him decide - best way.
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