Reply to New coworker made rude comment

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "New coworker made rude comment"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP back finally.  First, I'm not sure where the comments about us being losers came from - I work in R&D for a company whose aircraft you've probably flown on.  No new career necessary.

Second, I talked to my manager today and let him know I was going to have to back off the admin work a bit.  I didn't tell him why, but he knows I'm overworked and I'm sure assumed it's a workload issue.  It's really hard because I like to take on work, but you all are right, I shouldn't be taking on admin work as a younger (as if I feel young at 35) woman.

New coworker was not in today, so I bought myself some time to decide if and what to say to him.  You all gave me great ideas on that as well.[/quote]

You do sound much younger than 35.[/quote]

I have lots of social issues, so what?[/quote]

I think you may have put yourself in a worse position by not telling your boss why you don't want to do more admin work. Tell her/him that you want to focus on more X/Y/Z professional tasks - mention that you do the professional/technical already, want to get more in depth or broaden in these areas. Now the boss thinks you are overworked and will say no to new work altogether. That isn't good for a young professional. I'm a 50-ish boss, and you know what happens when someone who is on the upward trajectory tells me they are too busy? I don't give them any work, and I have to do it myself more often than not. If I know that someone wants more of a particular technical task, I'm happy to give it to this person and naturally shift-away other work.[/quote]

I've been taking on more and more technical work as well.  It's fine.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics