Timeline for Someone I manage keeps cc'ing my boss
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| May 2, 2016 at 22:29 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 30, 2014 at 13:03 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 2:08 | comment | added | user1234567890abcdef | I recently got a new manager at my job. For the first time, it's been encouraged by my manager to talk directly to management at higher levels than who I report to. While I rarely feel the need to do this, the openness that this invitation implies feels good. I have encouraged my direct reports to do the same, and they do. While I sometimes wonder what they discuss, I fully trust everyone I work with and know that if there was something I could help them with, they would come to me. And if not, that's okay too. The openness and honesty around this policy is fantastic, if a bit unusual. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 16:29 | comment | added | Alexander | @SteveJessop I think the employee is just creating a papertrail. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 11:40 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | Admittedly I don't have any reports with reports, but if I was the boss getting this email I might well think, "the manager seems to be handling this" and ignore it. After all, none of the disagreements is actually leading to formal complaints about the manager's behaviour, it's just a little puzzling what the employee is hoping to achieve by CCing someone into the middle of a conversation without actually addressing them directly. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 2:10 | comment | added | Paul Draper | Suppose you talk to a customer, and they ask, "Can I speak with your manager?" Don't you feel even a little undermined? Granted, there are some legitimate reasons to ask that, even if you do a great job. Perhaps the issue just needs a higher authority. But if it happens repeatedly, the customer obviously has little confidence in your ability to do your job well. Same thing here. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 1:55 | comment | added | ChrisLively | @lilienthal: If I were the boss being cc'd I'd likely just talk to the manager to see if s/he still wants that person on their team. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 23:56 | comment | added | Lilienthal♦ | If I were the boss and receiving these communciations I would strongly wonder why the person I put in charge of managing the lower levels and filtering this kind of noise isn't doing his job and putting a stop to it. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 22:41 | comment | added | supercat | It's entirely possible that the purpose of copying the boss isn't to get a response from the boss, but is merely to make the coworker feel better about having stated his objections; the act of sending the message would be its own reward. As such, I wouldn't expect that it would stop but nor would I expect anything to come of it. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 19:48 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:37 | history | answered | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |