Is it ever enough?
My manager expects me to take initiative and propose new things along with a standard of knowing the know how for a part of the job I'm pretty sure he should know I've never done before. He has experience with it and assumes that that part is familiar to everyone who works at the company. He applies pressure for things that are meant far enough into the future that we shouldn't even focus on them right now.
As for the initiative, I guess there aren't that many things to actually think about improving them. One thing is the general lack of organization and communication in the company, but I don't think that's something that I should bear with as a Sys Admin. I'm rarely given a chance to fully express myself as people sure like to spin their stories and in this "market yourself" world there's really not an honest person that would even stop talking for a second to listen to the other person.
Also, I'm pretty sure I'm sometimes given "helpful tips" copy/pasted straight from an AI chat along with being bombarded with information so far from my job decription that I have to listen to rants and other people being miserable.
Got a performance review coming up and I don't know what to think. I know I do enough, because there isn't one outstanding task left. But somehow it feels it's never enough.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading and have a good day!