alt Hacker NewsIn your situation, it's end of year review time. He might be softening you up.
Why not mention to your manager that CEO supported you? Are they working with different data? I get these may not be fun to press on right before the holidays.
In your situation, it's end of year review time. He might be softening you up.
Why not mention to your manager that CEO supported you? Are they working with different data? I get these may not be fun to press on right before the holidays.
Don't make assumptions. My employer does not do end-of-year reviews.
To make a long story short, my manager got angry because I wrote a quick and dirty tool that bypassed a lot of confusing abstraction layers, and is significantly easier to use than the tool the company currently uses.
When my manager got angry, I first told my manager that we shouldn't argue in front of the entire office. Then I went to the CEO for advice. The CEO gave me advice that I used on my 1-1 with my manager later that day. (The CEO was also quite happy that I made a quick-and-dirty tool that made peoples' lives easier.)
> Why not mention to your manager that CEO supported you?
I suggested that my manager discuss the issue with the CEO when they told me that he didn't think he could "sell my tool" to the CEO.
To make a long story short, this is a case where my manager started the company, and people / project management is not their strong part. The limiting factor is funding, otherwise we'd have hired a proper project manager and promoted my manager (the founder) to a thought leadership role.