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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you send an actual text?  (Cell phone to cell phone?)  Was it inside or outside of business hours?  As a boss, sending an off-hours text would be an indication to me that you were spiraling vs. using standard comms channels (email, teams) during the work day.  [/quote]

I sent a text after business hours.[/quote]

This would be a red flag to me as a supervisor about you as an employee with regard to your ability to appropriately triage issues and raise them through appropriate channels.[/quote]

There’s a lot of space between “silence” and “staff know you’re disappointed and you’re panic-texting your boss after hours.”

You can face issues head on, and you can and should express when there are issues, but NOT like that.

You have a weekly 1:1. Triage your issues, and bring them up then, professionally and tactfully, one per week, and work with your boss to move forward constructively. “In order for New Function to be implemented smoothly, the team needs to do X and Y, and those are not currently happening. Is that a reasonable expectation? What’s the best approach for getting the staff on board?”

As for communication - confirming in writing works well for me. So, if you’re in a meeting, and you leave thinking the next steps are for Larla to do task A by X date and then for you to proceed with task B by Y date, send a follow up email to the attendees immediately after the meeting saying “Thanks for a productive meeting, folks! Just wanted to document next steps: Larla to do task A by X date and then I will do task B by Y date.”

Texting your boss after hours is for emergencies, not venting! [/quote]

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