Daily employee newsletter 🤢
I don't even read the monthly ones my company puts out, daily must be soulcrushingly tedious?
Daily employee newsletter 🤢
I don't even read the monthly ones my company puts out, daily must be soulcrushingly tedious?
It's important to remember that division of labor is a thing. You are an employee with a job description, hopefully, and generally, there are people who are supposed to do the work, and other people evaluate, sort, distribute the work that needs to be done. That would be "managing".
If everything is critical all the time, every day, your manager is not doing their job.
That doesn't mean it's something you can fix, but it's not your fault either. Being bad at their job isn't a particular bad failing. It's a major inconvenience for you, but he's not kicking cats and dogs either. I hope.
The internet doesn't know you. I don't know if you're cranky or lazy, it's also possible that your workload is reasonable but you don't see it that way. No way to tell.
Good managing behavior includes: praising people for good work in public and also defending the people they're responsible for if the fault is due to process, not their personal failure.
Also, if I may, an internal PR division sounds really really useless, so I'm not surprised someone is desperate to not show any signs of failure, because that's a position that's just asking to be "restructured". "Internal public relations"? What?
mostly our job is to inform our employees about what's being done within the company, mostly about projects and some internal processes which needs some degree of formality, invitations for internal events and so on. it has a role in keeping internal culture and morale too. but i believe it's something that, with the likes of "viva engage" coming, will probably wither away. that's another thing i'm worrying about, but for another post.
Seems like a business processes is at fault here. If something minor like an error in a daily internal newsletter is causing an exec to freak out perhaps some oversight is needed.
Then it problem is no longer yours as someone else with authority approved it.
You can also be the change you want to see, draft a manual or a "Don't post stuff about X if Y is mentioned" documents. Unload it from your head.
Surely there is not actually enough going on that you need a daily newsletter, that’s a ton of work on a short timeline.
Management loves to say everything is critical, but never seems to realize that when everything takes priority, nothing does.
Internal PR? And you have an entire division for that?
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