My manager peers treat me different. New hire.
They hired me as a project manager and told me i would be heading utility projects. Well, after 5 weeks of being here, I have only been able to do 2 projects, but now they’re making me only handle utility locate issues. They even tell me to go pick stuff up for them and drop it off to a crew as if I’m a laborer. There are 5 other PM’s and neither of them do the extra duties that have been given to me. On top of that, they all have trucks and I was told I’d get one upon hire. Well, I got hired and he throws me the keys to a large van. I can’t even get to half of the job sites because of this van and anytime I do get to one, other contractors think I’m a safety guy, because the van has a wrap that says “SAFETY TEAM”. It’s all incredibly frustrating! Every contractor I meet, “you must be the safety guy”… NO IM NOT!! I thought I got this job to manage projects. Not hound a utility locator to get work done. I might as well become a utility locate supervisor at this point. I’m getting paid the highest I ever have, so I might as well stay. But it stresses me out not doing what I came here to do. It feels like I got hired to be given the extra workload that no one else wants to do.
Update: another manager asked me to handle a task for him because he’s too busy. I’m assigned this task with no work order given on the project. Just an email with someone’s phone number. I call her and we chat about the project we’re doing for her and she asks me questions that I have no answer to. She then says, “do they even tell you anything there?” My response was, “it doesn’t seem like they do, huh?”. It’s gotten so bad that people we contract for, as well as my own employees are noticing I’m not in the loop like I should be. It’s embarrassing.