Not to pour salt in the wound but Facebook Memories just reminded me of when I shredded all the old checks I was holding onto from a pre-fully digital world. My room in a 5 bedroom house in West Berkeley, "last millennium," which cost under $500 a month.
My manager just left and I feel like I have been going through PTSD in the weeks following her departure. She was an absent manager and avoided dealing with issues. Her manager is now managing the entire team (two teams actually, as another people manager just left) and has said that we should tell him what we would like to do moving forward. How much of the challenges should I / others share with him especially as he looks forward to planning out the structure of the team? A few details:
- As I mentioned, another people manager left almost exactly at the same time, leaving a group of 8+ people without direct managers.
- Half of my team was happy with our manager: two people who were her favorites and she coddled. She set them up with the best projects while the rest of us languished (and were also all looking for new jobs).
- Most of us are seeing this as an opportunity to get what we want from the situation, including getting to manage others on the team.
- Part of the backdrop of being honest with him is to alert him to the damage control he might want to be aware of. It's not just reassigning managers and regardless of what happens, there will be hurt feelings based off of what we had to put up with thus far.
- Given her absent management style, a lot of team experiences communication issues and I feel like I could help coach them on these skills. This is what I am thinking is what I would bring to the table to address an ongoing issue and improve the team.
- There might be a larger restructure on the horizon. So it's possible things have been decided and the exercise of pitching our wants and needs is just surface level.
Any thoughts would be helpful. If there isn't any positive change for me on the horizon, I need to definitely get a new job. Only management experience would make staying here make sense.
Thanks!