Awkward
Anonymous
Awkward
I have been in my current role for about a year. Recently, there was some restructuring, and I have been fortunate enough to be added to the cabinet. I am the only person of my title level to have been extended an invite, everyone else holds more senior positions than I do.
Although I have only attended two of these meetings so far, my boss has done the same thing in both sessions. That is, he calls out and to an extent talks trash about a colleague of my same title level, often stating that this person and the department that they lead, 'Doesn't think it has to do what everyone else is doing', and 'When they get busy, they seem to think they don't have to take on anything else.'
While I agree that this appears to be true based on my experience working with this person and their department, the awkward part is that up until this restructuring, my boss was this person's supervisor. So, whenever my boss makes these statements in the cabinet, I can't help but think, 'Whose fault is that?'.
I obviously will not engage my boss about this. However, it makes me think about what he could be saying about me to others when I'm not in the room.
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