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Originally Posted by seesaw
You know I support you and am totally in your corner, rooting for you. Some thoughts to try and help you make it through til a better gig comes along:
Is it possible that you are coming off in a way other than you intend? It may be worth it to take feedback from your colleagues on how you occur for them and see if that's how you intend to occur. This is in no way an insinuation that you are intentionally doing anything or anything less than what you stated. But we often think we are behaving one way while others perceive us a different way.
It could also be that your idea of an awesome employee is different than your boss's or the CEO's. It might be worth it to ask them what they would say an awesome employee is and see if you are matching up to what they want for an employee. That is, if you want to try and make things work at all or at least to keep your job until you find a new one.
Hang in there. You are incredibly skilled and talented. If you can learn to work with others who don't have your level of integrity and work ethic and not get bothered by them (and in this case, based on the situation, not rock the boat) you will find a lot of success. And actually, as I typed it, that kind of would explain a lot, I think. It may be possible your boss views you as someone rocking the boat. No matter your skill set, if you're rocking the boat, that will put you in the hot seat.
You'll survive this. You are strong, and like I said, talented. Just have to keep treading water for a while longer.
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seesaw.
Well you do pose good questions. The fact that I had a great annual review that was seven pages long documenting how I am a good employee, and the fact that my boss’s boss told me directly that I’m a huge asset to the team, kind of says it all right? And that happened only just two weeks ago, before I backed out of social.
This (I think) has much more to do with me backing out of social (due to my anxiety), and much more to do with my boss disliking that.
The CEO told me it has to do with their bottom line. Without social on my plate, I carry the lightest load of SEO clients. My boss made it seem like I couldn’t handle more clients. He erroneously conveyed that to the CEO. So I cleared that point up.
Then the CEO also made the point of saying they need the right people in the right positions and pointed out that I had said to my boss that I had lost my passion for the field I’m in. So I cleared up that point as well.
I believe it’s my boss who is trying to get me fired by saying these things to the CEO.
So from what I can surmise, it has to do with my level of interest and my ability to take on more clients. I made it clear to the CEO where my passion DOES lie within my field, AND told him I can certainly take on more clients. I also let HR know this because my boss gave her this impression as well.
I’ve pissed off my boss, so I believe he wants me gone. I did not ask to be placed in charge of social strategy... my boss dumped that responsibility on me. It became too much, and I told my boss it was giving me too much anxiety and that I was in over my head. The CEO is the one who hired me, and he said he likes me A LOT.
So this is the CEO’s decision.
I may have rocked the boat in a few ways, but I get along with everyone in the company and there are no open conflicts or anything of the like. I went to HR about our work process once, that pissed off my boss, and I defended my right to present my own work with a colleague who tried to steal my thunder.
Hope this helps clear up any missing pieces... I am certainly willing to look at myself and see how I can do better, but honestly, I feel this is ALL on my boss who is misrepresenting the facts to our CEO.
Thankfully, it's the CEO who hired me, and not my boss.