Re: I need advice :(
Like I said earlier, I dont mind teaching him and helping him learn but what I do have a problem with his him going behind my back and digging up my project emails that I am solely responsible for and quoting that to the supervisors making it look like he came up with all this. I am very shy and I have a hard time talking to people. Also working among all goras they already leave me out. Ofcourse I am going to be a little worried. I want to be a team player I really do but bc I am lacking self marketing skills I cant even stand up for my hard work. That is why I wanted a diplomatic way to approach this without looking bad. Everyone that has responded in regards to how if they were the boss or how they hired someone you guys are speaking from supervisors perspective, and I respect that. But what I need is someone to help me from an employees perspective.
Re: I need advice :(
Hello everyone!
I am not sure if this post belongs under this section but I have been following this forum for a while and you guys seem like a good group of people, so I thought maybe I can share my frustration with you guys.
We have a hired a new (gora) guy at work and he is just so over eager to learn everything about my job. I have trained him the way I was trained with the basic knowledge of my work.
The advance knowledge comes with work experience.I feel like he is trying to outdo me by asking all the questions he can about my job so that he can use that information to learn more and show off in front of the upper management.
I never did that when I was being trained. I was always caution and never tried stepping on anyones toes. I cant really ignore his questions or give him the wrong info.
He goes behind my back and looks at our shared inbox e-mails and learns things and shows them off in front of my boss.
When I am having a conversation about a project with my other co-workers he will come by and listen in so he can learn more and more!!!
I am getting so frustrated and I am not sure how to politically and diplomatically handle this.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for all your help in advance!
Sara
I haven't gone through the responses already posted against your questions but I didnt' want to be biased so will reply based on your post only.
First of all, understand that you two are different people with individual traits. The training process isn't a recycle. So prove yourself a better trainer and let him learn whatever you know already. That being said, you will be in a difficult position if both of you knew the same type of work and be at an equal level in terms of skills, position and package etc, may be its time for you to come forward and show off in front of the management. It seems like you have just being doing your job and your management doesn't know about it. If this new person has better interpersonal skills and has managed to convince the upper management that he's doing a good job, it is time for you to develop those skills as well.
However, if you still want to politically handle everything and don't want his interference in anything a simple way to do it would be dividing the tasks between the two. So nothing overlaps. You do your tasks and report it to the management and he does his share of work and report to the management. Have a meeting with the immediate boss and make him/her understand that two people doing the same work is practically inefficient. I am not sure about your industry so cannot provide any specific reference but you might want to grow your skills by taking up some certification for future growth.