I just got my performance review and have a space on the page where I can make comments. My boss says I need to be more proactive at asking people for updated info & reporting policy violations on the web pages. This is what I've written so far: "Regardless of how many times I ask for updated info or point out policy violations, I do not have the ability or authority to make people address these issues."
Can any of you suggest a diplomatic way to say "Perhaps I'd put more effort into hounding people to give me updated info and pointing out policy violations if the college would actually back me up & give me a bit of authority. As it is now, it's just a waste of my time, as I will point out a problem, my boss will have me design new templates, and then they will give the site back to incompetent people who will immediately ignore everything I said and throw out the work I did. Final result: a wasted week of work for me, yet another non-compliant site."
Oooh. "I have pointed out such problems in the past, but the college seems unwilling to back me up. (For example, the X site is non-compliant and unattractive. Marty had me design new templates. I converted the pages to use the new template and showed the grad students how to update the pages. They have since thrown out all the changes and gone back to an ugly and non-compliant site with absolutely no repercussions."
I hate my boss so much. I have lost any respect for him that I might have once had. He visually destroys everything I create. He won't let me do the job I've been TRAINED to do. So by the time he's done with his comments and tweaks, the web sites look like crap.
Posted by rachel at July 21, 2004 09:54 AM