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Oh ffs murphy, fuck off....
Seriously, managing is tiring. sometimes it's good and it feels like winning a tetris piece, and other times, I want to have the ability to shake people to alleviate my frustrations
Accounts team are almost always an area of frustration
"when will this be done"
"can you come to this meeting"
"why is it this way"
"what should the timeline be"
"what should the project brief be"
"should i do this or that?"
It's enough to make me be glad I do not have kids or any significant other because if one more person asks how to live their life and do their job i'll scream.
Then there's just the manpower in my department (medical) to do all the content work and run the meetings. I mean i do have at least 1 really good strat partner on the accounts side so i'm not doing it ALL myself, but still, i can't clone myself when there's competing meetings.
So we have 2 main accounts each supported by a team of ~3. On one account - C&E let's say - we have one of those members leaving just as we may be having some ramp ups on things. cool cool.... we haave a new person starting at end of month. it will all be good.
On the other account - L - we're in a launch phase, we've spent a ton of time doing nothing as the client figured out when their launch window was, and have a ton of work that I was doing mostly on my lonesome, finally got added 2 people to it in June (though 1 is very junior and not client facing), and added another just late last month.
The add -R - there was critical because one of that team is going on maternity leave in October.
Except I just had a 1:1 with R who - thanks to pandemic, family illness, and overall anxious disposition - is near a nervous breakdown and planning to take leave in October.
And my boss knew this and yet didn't warn me and we already introduced her to the client. *head desk* And he's all "well R has a decision to make blah blah blah". and I'm NO. there's a point at which yes a decision has to be made. but we've hemorraged enough on getting rid of senior people who don't do anything, and we can't stand by and lose a midlevel employee who is usually a superstar.
gahhhhh.
I need to get a punching bag in my home office at the new house.
Accounts team are almost always an area of frustration
"when will this be done"
"can you come to this meeting"
"why is it this way"
"what should the timeline be"
"what should the project brief be"
"should i do this or that?"
It's enough to make me be glad I do not have kids or any significant other because if one more person asks how to live their life and do their job i'll scream.
Then there's just the manpower in my department (medical) to do all the content work and run the meetings. I mean i do have at least 1 really good strat partner on the accounts side so i'm not doing it ALL myself, but still, i can't clone myself when there's competing meetings.
So we have 2 main accounts each supported by a team of ~3. On one account - C&E let's say - we have one of those members leaving just as we may be having some ramp ups on things. cool cool.... we haave a new person starting at end of month. it will all be good.
On the other account - L - we're in a launch phase, we've spent a ton of time doing nothing as the client figured out when their launch window was, and have a ton of work that I was doing mostly on my lonesome, finally got added 2 people to it in June (though 1 is very junior and not client facing), and added another just late last month.
The add -R - there was critical because one of that team is going on maternity leave in October.
Except I just had a 1:1 with R who - thanks to pandemic, family illness, and overall anxious disposition - is near a nervous breakdown and planning to take leave in October.
And my boss knew this and yet didn't warn me and we already introduced her to the client. *head desk* And he's all "well R has a decision to make blah blah blah". and I'm NO. there's a point at which yes a decision has to be made. but we've hemorraged enough on getting rid of senior people who don't do anything, and we can't stand by and lose a midlevel employee who is usually a superstar.
gahhhhh.
I need to get a punching bag in my home office at the new house.
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It's really weird as I have such a different relationship with my boss than apparently most people in the company. Not sure if it's because we're too much alike or what.
Working toward a solution that isn't going to be perfect in anyway shape or form that will hopefully be somewhat acceptable to all people but yeah its still a big source of anxiety and will make the next 3-4 months extremely subpar on staffing without a miracle.