u/michachu

I've been tasked with working on a project for a month with a manager who tried to put me on a PIP >5 years ago. It was a weird time for me where I was told, after a year in that role, that I wasn't performing; this was despite wearing 3 different hats (IC, project manager, coaching) and doing much more in the role than people in similar roles today. Nothing I seemed to do helped my situation and I left for a promotion outside the organisation.

In my BAU role, my team has oversight of aspects of this manager's work. I'm being pulled in to help out on some urgent ad hocs because the company is short of hands.

Obviously it's awkward, but I'm more concerned that (1) my contributions won't be taken for their merit and therefore (2) it can be used to discredit my team's future BAU work that involves oversight of his team.

Assuming I can't get out of this, how should I approach the situation? My take is I approach this as clean slate, and I insist on them having good QA for whatever I produce because I don't know their domain as well as they do. I don't think I have anything to gain by acknowledging the past. But what else can I do to protect myself RE the 2 concerns above?