Hi all,
I am writing to ask if anyone can provide me with their opinion on my management's behavior and where to take it from here.
I joined this company a year ago after 5 years experience with a competitor and a top-tier consulting firm. The role is more junior than I had anticipated despite it being a lateral move originally. I started in this team around the same time as four other people (all at the same level as me across US/Ireland). Since day 1, the management has shown a severe lack of interest in me - examples as follows:
I'm incredibly confused, especially as our direct manager locally has been on leave for an extended period of time and his manager (our former manager) has taken over in the interim, but it was the same even when he was around. He showed a great deal of favoritism towards that other new joiner. In any case, I feel as though they want to slow down my progression purposefully. They simply don't care about me at all. If I reach out to ask a question, of course, they will be responsive, but that's about it really.
It is incredibly unsettling as in my previous companies, I was highly visible and always developed strong relationships with managers.
How to interpret this and what should I do?
Thanks.
I am writing to ask if anyone can provide me with their opinion on my management's behavior and where to take it from here.
I joined this company a year ago after 5 years experience with a competitor and a top-tier consulting firm. The role is more junior than I had anticipated despite it being a lateral move originally. I started in this team around the same time as four other people (all at the same level as me across US/Ireland). Since day 1, the management has shown a severe lack of interest in me - examples as follows:
- They introduced each new joiner with a email to the larger network - all of them except me.
- Every single project that comes up is assigned to one of the other new joiners, never me, unless it's purely tedious (e.g.: system testing when we're not an IT team)
- Our remit of expertise is slowly expanding across two additional areas - every single new joiner has been involved in the other two areas, except me (and it's not a lack of experience/knowledge as none of these people have the required background either - it is a regulatory subject and despite having two legal qualifications, they clearly don't deem me suitable enough)
- I expressed interest in taking part in two other areas of expertise and when a project came around, they assigned it to the other new joiner I'm mentioning below
- If there are projects coming towards our local team in Ireland, they always assign it to the other new joiner (who bombed a lot of projects, but no one cares) - they even removed one interesting add-hoc task from me to assign it to him when he's had no exposure either. He's getting slammed with tons and tons of work and always claims he is "overwhelmed".
- I have no had a single 1-1 since I joined last year, when all the other new joiners have regular 1-1s
I'm incredibly confused, especially as our direct manager locally has been on leave for an extended period of time and his manager (our former manager) has taken over in the interim, but it was the same even when he was around. He showed a great deal of favoritism towards that other new joiner. In any case, I feel as though they want to slow down my progression purposefully. They simply don't care about me at all. If I reach out to ask a question, of course, they will be responsive, but that's about it really.
It is incredibly unsettling as in my previous companies, I was highly visible and always developed strong relationships with managers.
How to interpret this and what should I do?
Thanks.