I’m so sick of the hierarchal double standards in the corporate world. A vice president at my company that I work closely with emailed me - what was supposed to be - essential information needed to move on to the next stage of a project. They were supposed to attach a spreadsheet with the details. They attached the spreadsheet but nothing was in it. Not even irrelevant data. It was completely empty.
This is no problem, of course. All I’d have to do is ping them letting them know that the attachment is a dud. But I know - for a fact - had I done that, this particular person would have called me and gave me a lecture on how important it is to review emails and their attachments before sending them and what a catastrophe it was that I wasted their precious time. Or an email at 7 PM telling me how “disappointed” they are. CCing my boss so they can store my sins in a “reasons why this one is a bad worker drone” file.
Every little thing I miss is a Greek Tragedy. Every major thing they mess up is a “hehe, whoopsie!”
It’s even on projects THEY initiate. They tell me why it’s so important to get done by the end of April, I become the project manager and assign the subject matter experts (the people who created the urgency) work. All of a sudden crickets. All of a sudden expectations aren’t hard and fast anymore. All of a sudden we’re a new age company who doesn’t believe in the capitalist, soul-sucking concept of a “deadline”.
The power tripping is obvious. Fake urgency and deadlines for me but perish the thought of me giving a necessary deadline to a manager or a VP or a director. Everything they assign to me is a matter of life and death - oh! It needs to be done immediately or else the world will blow up - but everything I tell them to complete is totally optional; you’d be lucky to get a response from them after the 5th reminder in 3 weeks.
God forbid, GOD FORBID! I do what they do. They’d line me up at the stockade and livestream it for a company wide lunch and learn.