I told the CEO I was flattered that my boss thought I could take on social strategy. I also told the CEO that I was in over my head, flying by the seat of my pants and that I wasn’t comfortable with that. That I can’t work like that.

The job I was hired to do has nothing to do with social. The responsibility was brought over to our department because the person in charge of it wasn’t handling it good enough. I volunteered to help. Many of us did and several of us showed interest. Now my boss may have misunderstood my experience level with social. He made a lot of assumptions in assuming I could actually RUN the whole thing.

I don’t have a problem with authority. I do as I am asked and always with a positive attitude.

I backed out of social because I saw how big the responsibility is, and how I started making things up just to have an answer. That’s not right. I’m not equipped or knowledgeable enough to run it.

Basically I see it as being my boss was concerned I had lost passion for my field and also concerned about my ability to take on more SEO clients. Or at least those are the concerns the CEO now has because of how my boss presented things to the CEO about me. I never said I couldn’t handle more SEO clients. That’s where I feel my boss misconstrued things to the CEO. I had only been overly stressed once when they gave me a very difficult client, my plate was suddenly overfull with a demanding client who demanded more hours and time than they were paying us for. So my boss took that client off my plate. So he now claims I can’t handle more clients than what I have, which is simply not true. See what he’s doing? He’s setting me up to look bad to the CEO. I told the CEO I can certainly handle more clients. I told HR the same thing. I also made it clear that I have not lost passion for my work, which was a concern. This was made a concern because I had told my boss I wasn’t sure about SEO being for me and maybe I should try something new. This company claims if you’re not enjoying your role, they will move you into something else. So my boss conveyed to the CEO that I lost my passion for SEO, using what I said against me which is very two-faced kind if company policy. The CEO wants to see me take on more clients and to be passionate about my work. I told him I can certainly do both. I told him I get excited about aspects of my work.

Oh whatever. I feel it’s moot now at this point. His mind will probably already be made up by the time I meet with him again.