I have noticed my supervisor has started emailing me and copying her supervisor on all emails while bombarding me with questions. Her questions are always directed to make me look bad and throw me under the bus for something that isn’t my fault. I believe this is a ploy to use against me this rating season. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Not my supervisor but I work in uncon. controllers and the older XTO employees are notorious for trying to chastise you through email and cc your supervisor. They even take simple IM conversations with no future value and send them as an email with the supervisor on them.
Not my supervisor but I work in uncon. controllers and the older XTO employees are notorious for trying to chastise you through email and cc your supervisor. They even take simple IM conversations with no future value and send them as an email with the supervisor on them.
You are the next NSI candidate. My suggestion is speak to a counsel, and see how you want to make sure that you are covered. Also do your work..
You are a target now. That person will twist anything you do to make you look bad. They have likely been given the task of weeding someone out and in order to save their a$% they have to find someone to cut and they will even if that means blaming you for things they did. It is very cut throat and hopefully they rot for it.
Well join the club, it has happened to me by a bully for three solid years. Exxon has promoted so many bad employees over the last five years its astonishing. The are no real leaders in Exxonmobil anymore.
Your boss s—s. I’ve seen many like this. Typical xom to be honest.
why dont you ask your supervisor?
Normal behavior. I had a supervisor pull this on me, but little did he know I started BCC’ing his manager, and sometimes one level above that on a lot of bad behavior shortly after this started. I like to think that I played a small part in limiting that career trajectory.
@OP - pull out your contigency plan and start applying for jobs. Someone is trying to justify your NSI
Ask other team members if they are experiencing this. Even if they weren’t trying to look for reasons to get rid of you, this behavior from your boss is not conducive to an appropriate work environment. People being copied on mails is one major red flag I look for. I try to ask in job interviews the boss’s stance on this. The only time I copy people is if it has something to do with a project or shutdown schedule. If I’m sharing technical info or one off’s then no one is copied. If the person mails me with copied people then don’t expect a reply from me. If they remind me about their mail I will say give me a ring or stop by, and do they age a few minutes now to speak. I only reply to copied mails if it makes sense. Do these people need this info to do their job? Be careful because the sender who has copied the world or someone trying stab you, can forward this to hr or their boss to show you are not being a team player. So if I suspect the person is like this or I am new, I will reply to them to speak to me in person because the information is too much for mail and is best suited for discussion. Once my reputation is sound that I don’t handle those emails, then I will stop replying to speak in person as it’s understood. At that point I will ask them to call me or see me as I mentioned above.
Record, record, record. Record conversations with your manager praising you. I would 100% begin recording every meeting with everyone, and every conversation with everyone. Seriously.
Your boss does not have your back. Snakes. I am going to be praying for you as I have been in your shoes before.
Very Upstream behavior. I worked at several
Organizations including the 5hit hole RTD and other parts of UIS and they are all full of toxic, back stabbing employees and management. Disgusting place it is.
Your supervisor is doing everything to save herself and look good in front of her manager by making you a escape goat. You deserve it anyway, ... for working for such a terrible organization to begin with.
OP here
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I guessed as much. My manager is a lying, backstabbing person who takes credit for my work and has no idea what I do. She can’t answer a simple question about my role. In the interim before I leave, is there anything I should do for my integrity? I know I am a good employee who is very passionate and seeing things to completion. Do I keep responding to the sabotaging emails she sends with people in copy to defend my name?
Didn’t know upstream was this toxic
Yes they are trying to get rid of you. After you leave, they will use the same tricks on your manager to get rid of her. Upper management always encourage toxic environment to get employees to leave so they won't have to lay people off. Then to "clean up" and win the trust of left over employees, they will then get rid of the toxic managers that they manipulated to begin with. Your manager is working to get rid of you but probably not realizing that her own days are numbered as well. It's a Karma thing.
Yes. It seems to be "the playbook" for laying off, or rather shaming employees so they don't have to pay severance
You should start looking for a new job.
Managment is now prepping to show their true colors. Be careful and aware of your bosses. They will keep singing "weak shall perish while strong survives". And just like how they didnt provide a definition for "company fit" nor shared "critical skills" during layoff, they wont share what "weak" and "strong" means either.
This is usually the kick-off of the NSI bracket so that when July arrives they will have sufficient documentation to PIL, PIP, or ask you to retire. It's textbook, "Poisoning the Well" tactics.