I'm the only report developer in my company and have been the only report dev for 3 years although that hasn't always been how my talents have been used. When I finally was allowed to do report development, I was given a tool to use that I had never used before, only to discover that the tool wasn't a mature development tool - it was cheap which was why it was purchased, although I know that I'm good at what I do, working with a immature tool I'm trying to learn and develop in makes for a slow development process. Add to that there are typically limited requirements, no requirements or no specs that come with the report requests and lots of scope creep. Although I've published some amazingly complex reports with unique features that they wished for, it's been a slow process and to management it's taking too long.
Some background on my company, communication is definitely not a strong suit here so I watch calendars and have seen management and executive staff talking to report devs or people recommending report devs. Besides being poor at communication, the executives are misogynistic, in fact we have lost approximately 50% of the woman in my division in just the last 2 years.
I was told, in an offhand comment a few months ago, by the president of the company that they've tried to find someone who does what I do but they haven't had any luck - Wow, nice to know that they are either trying to add new people to the team or that I'm being replaced. I honestly don't even think he realized that he said it or how it came across. My manager keeps saying that we need more people on the team but that he needs to justify it to the execs. Why are they looking if he needs to justify that we need another couple people for our team. At the very least, I should have been asked to be part of the process since I have previously interviewed report dev candidates and know both the tools we have available and the data we are dealing with but it's being done without any feedback from me. Another bad thing about this situation is that without any communication, it seems to be underhanded and potential undermining my position. Last week I received an invitation to a meeting where I was listed as TBD Report Developer. I questioned this via IM and my boss replied "yea, I'm going to replace you and spin someone up in < 1 week.", I didn't respond, so then he IM'd "really?", next came an emoticon with it's tongue sticking out and then he blamed it on someone else (Again - go back to the fact that I'm the only report dev and have been the only report dev for 3 years).
I used to trust my boss, but as he's gotten more visibility and accolodes for the work that I and my coworkers are doing, he's gotten less communicative and seems to have adopted the same attitude the execs show. My dept is small and while I trust the most senior person in my dept, he's a long time employee, he knows "how it's always been done", he doesn't work with new tools and he really doesn't say much and can't relate to my situation. The only other female in the dept is treated very much like a gopher and administrative assistant which was how I was treated initially until I finally got to show them what I could do. However, she has not proven to be trustworthy with confidences so I have no one to talk to about this situation.
Any suggestions?
Some background on my company, communication is definitely not a strong suit here so I watch calendars and have seen management and executive staff talking to report devs or people recommending report devs. Besides being poor at communication, the executives are misogynistic, in fact we have lost approximately 50% of the woman in my division in just the last 2 years.
I was told, in an offhand comment a few months ago, by the president of the company that they've tried to find someone who does what I do but they haven't had any luck - Wow, nice to know that they are either trying to add new people to the team or that I'm being replaced. I honestly don't even think he realized that he said it or how it came across. My manager keeps saying that we need more people on the team but that he needs to justify it to the execs. Why are they looking if he needs to justify that we need another couple people for our team. At the very least, I should have been asked to be part of the process since I have previously interviewed report dev candidates and know both the tools we have available and the data we are dealing with but it's being done without any feedback from me. Another bad thing about this situation is that without any communication, it seems to be underhanded and potential undermining my position. Last week I received an invitation to a meeting where I was listed as TBD Report Developer. I questioned this via IM and my boss replied "yea, I'm going to replace you and spin someone up in < 1 week.", I didn't respond, so then he IM'd "really?", next came an emoticon with it's tongue sticking out and then he blamed it on someone else (Again - go back to the fact that I'm the only report dev and have been the only report dev for 3 years).
I used to trust my boss, but as he's gotten more visibility and accolodes for the work that I and my coworkers are doing, he's gotten less communicative and seems to have adopted the same attitude the execs show. My dept is small and while I trust the most senior person in my dept, he's a long time employee, he knows "how it's always been done", he doesn't work with new tools and he really doesn't say much and can't relate to my situation. The only other female in the dept is treated very much like a gopher and administrative assistant which was how I was treated initially until I finally got to show them what I could do. However, she has not proven to be trustworthy with confidences so I have no one to talk to about this situation.
Any suggestions?
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what a great way to start my day - too funny.