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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you the adminstrator in my department?  Because if you are, please know why you are being reprimanded.

You have failed to do essential tasks that have resulted in real people both suffering personally and not being able to do their jobs.  When you do do tasks, you fail to update me so that I end up have to send you three emails you have to read, in addition to the email from your boss that you finally respond to.

I am a valued employee that is integral to your organization and I am sick of what you are doing.  You are getting in the way of my mission.  I have a folder of the  emails you never responded to after 2, 3 or 4 requests, and a list of the things that happened as a result of your failure to respond, even if it was just to say you were too busy, or to forward them to delegate.

I am helping another colleague get rid of you which is why you got the reprimand, which is your first step out the door.  Yes, you were overloaded but you could have delegated.  You could have problem solved but you just created a huge hole that damaged my team, my work and is going to be very expensive for my organization to dig out of when we finally hire new people, which thankfully we are doing.

Get your resume together, and hope that they never call me as a reference. Although I might just say a few nice things about you to ensure that you never come back here.
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OP here.  Thanks for that!  That just gave me a laugh which I needed after all this unexpected stress.  Sorry to disappoint you but I'm not your administrator.

As far as an update at this point I'm just waiting for my letter to see what it does say.  HR let me know that there is no formal policy about timely communications and that it is up to each department.  My boss is out so I can' fact find there.  I've just been getting all my facts together so I can respond to the letter when it does arrive so I can just put this to bed and move on since this is just such a time suck.  I went from being super excited about my job to being really down about it and went from being the department all star to getting reprimanded in a matter of seconds.  My head is still spinning.   Thanks for all of the advice thus far!  I have used a lot of it . [/quote]

PP here.  I'm glad your not my admin.  I knew you weren't because her boss is not a woman.  You actually sound like a good employee who has been overwhelmed.

That said, one trait you could use more of is to truly listen to criticism.  Not mine, of course, since it's not necessarily relevant, but when your boss gave you feedback about things that aren't going as well as they could you immediately got defensive.  Yes, of course you want to avoid being fired, but the best employees investigate this feedback thoroughly to see how they could do better.  You have failed to recognize this opportunity and act on it.  Setting an "I'm away" auto email is a start, but you could otherwise investigate how you can do better.

In my own job, honest constructive criticism is amazing when I can take it and use it like an adult.   I hope you get through this but also do that too.  It will be valuable not only when your department is understaffed, hopefully a transient event (but honestly, probably will happen again) but also when things are back to normal.
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