AITA?

AITA? My frustration with my job is at an all time high. My company, every few years lands on an idea that they all get super excited about, stop everything to make it work and then abandon it when it gets too hard. We are in one of those "new and shiny" cycles right now. As always because I am a worker bee (used to be a manager, I stepped away from that role.) I am concerned about keeping the day to day work we do in good shape so they can build the new fancy thing that will save the company (It won't). When I told my boss today after she asked me about our new initive I was told in no uncertain terms I needed to find the time and the energy to rally my own team of other worker bees to improve the day to day processes and content we work on. In the next breath she told me we need to do a fully analysis of all the things that need to be improved and build a business case to do so. So I am confused...do I need to rally my own team and do the work myself or do I need to wait till the leadership team gets off their ass and decides that things need to be improved. I guess I am the ass. I have been here nearly 10 years and I have seen this happen over and over again. I will not bust my ass to "fix things" that no one seems to care about. And when the next big shiny thing falls through and our product that keeps renewels continues to fall apart maybe they will listen? They won't...but who knows. Even sun shines on a dogs rear occasionally. Shouldn't my boss be pulling the team together to help me? Shouldn't she be dictating the direction to go and what is the most important to the company as a whole? Again I am no longer a manager. I am a worker bee. A worker bee with a lot of experience...I have been looking for another job for a few months and I go back and forth if it will actually be greener on the other side of the fence. I am just so tired of all of it.

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  1. Anonymous

    Sounds like burnout but it's steady burnout I guess.

    Dust of your old plans for improvement, offer them to your boss and let her know you will support her team meeting and look forward to hearing what the other team members will be suggesting in the way of improvement.

  2. Anonymous

    I agree with the other commenter - if you've already done the work to update processes then just take those, tweak them a bit and bring them to your manager again. If you don't think they really care about improving business processes then don't put more work into it then you have to.

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