u/Blessed_bish

I recently joined one of the Big 4s (almost a month ago), and honestly, I love my job. I love how much I get to learn, and it doesn’t feel too burdensome. My manager is from a South Asian country, and he’s been the “data and tech guy” of the team for a LONG time now (like 8–9 years).

Not sure if it has anything to do with his communication skills, but sometimes it feels like he is unprofessional. He starts reviewing my work with “this is all wrong,” and while I push back, clarify, and try to understand what he’s looking for, it always feels like he’s judging my competence. This is the guy I have to discuss my goals with, and also the guy who will do my performance review, so how do I even make it work with him?

His manager, who is my senior manager, seems to connect with my ideas for innovation and automating processes, and she also said that she and I have similar mindsets. I like her, and she likes me too, so that’s the only hope I’ve got.

He takes no responsibility for his mistakes, and he makes tons of them. When I ask about them just to clarify what’s accurate, he replies to emails in such a way that indirectly says, “I’ve already told you about this.”

I hate him. I know I’m doing an amazing job and have picked things up much quicker than I expected, but does he even realize that his stupid ass took 8 years to get to this point? The least he could do is not make me feel like shit.

I fear he will suck the life and positivity out of my interest in this job and make me want to job hunt soon. Has anybody been in such a situation? What did you do? How do I deal with him, and protect my mental peace at the same time?

So I moved from the govt to one of the big 4s. I was determined from day 1, and well I’ve been picking up pretty well for someone who just joined the team. It’s a new discipline altogether so it’s taking me a while to understand why the team even exists.
Today I got a bunch of feedback from my manager that I need to pace up. I was a little startled, my guy has been around for 8+ years and you expect me to “pace up” in a week (for half of what you’re getting paid)?
So what now, they gonna fire me by month 1?

I’ve worked in risk management under compliance for a couple months now, not aggressively looking for jobs atm but I can see my job being taken over by automation. I’ve successfully automated majority of my daily tasks and a lot of my manager’s tasks too, and now I fear I might be let go because all they need is one person to review (my manager). Management has never feared about being let go. Because I have a senior analyst position, I want to make use of it to move to a managerial position internally. How do I go about?
Any useful tips, suggestions, experiences to share, guidance would be greatly appreciated!

What theories do you guys have? There’s no way the Nate we know is patient, caring and docile. Does Cassie know something that lets her put a leash on him? I think something is really going on between them