Work Advise Needed

[jessd 0]

I'll try to be as short as possible in my explaination. A few months ago I started a new reporting position at my company. It was more like I was just moved over into my current position because I have experience in reporting. Well, it started off that I was going to be working with my new manager on consolidating all of the reporting that is done across the division. In the beginning, the result that my company was looking for was for there to be fewer reports that were standardized. After this was done they were going to have each department in our division still take part in the completion of these monthly reports. Now, the head of the division wants to form a central reporting team and utilize some of the people who are currently in reporting related positions. This means taking resources away from each of the departments. My old manager approached me today about this and was not too happy because she would be losing the largest number of people to the new reporting team. This will result in a huge loss of budget dollars for her department. I'm not sure how to handle this because she was the one who put my name in for my current position. I think that she feels like in some way I betrayed her or something. In fact, none of these decisions are even up to me. I will have some say in who we bring in to our group, but, not the final say. Any advise on how I should handle the situation. I tried to brush it off today but I am meeting with her first thing in the morning on an unrelated subject, but I'm sure this will come up.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away..."

[wmw999 2,589]

What will give the company the most useful reports? That's what you should work towards. Even if you're a first-line employee, you can work to make information useful, and cry bullshit when someone is just making work.

If your former manager wants to vent, it probably wouldn't hurt just to let her vent, as long as you can figure out what's good about the new direction. Just remember to use "Yes, and" instead of "yes, but."

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)