Key from Fanatical. Please be patient, it may take me up to 24h to accept winner, because my job situation got, well, quite dramatical. Have you ever been framed by your vice-CEO into her own negligence?
I watched a J-drama called Hanzawa Naoki, it's about banker and at 1st episode he's getting all the blamed because his boss told him to do what the boss said
Even though he already said it's not good, too risky, etc
But the boss, "it's ok, I'll take all responsibilities"
In the end the boss is free from all responsibilities, instead the subordinate must pay for the boss' negligence
Sadly, the people that succeed in management are often those that always say "yes" and give good news to their superiors and are able to avoid accountability, so it's pretty common. I deal with their fluid verbal instructions by sending a confirmation email for my records. That has prevented me from being held responsible for other people's poor decisions but also been "career-limiting".
Good luck!
In my case, I've had a coworker who became a protegee and was promoted to vice-CEO while retaining some of her former duties. She has backing so powerful that even CEO can't touch her. We had some personal differences before her promotion, because I proved her wrong a few times. She recently talked with my manager about me taking over over one of them. If my manager didn't tell me that right away before decision was officially made I wouldn't have a chance to check - but I did. It turned out she didn't make yearly summaries of projects for 5 years. I would become instantly responsible for over a month of work (not counting for my other duties), including time consuming digging into archives to fill that 5 year gap, because summaries are recursive and can't complete current one without previous one and so on - and that's less than a month before internal audit. I let her know that I know and she held pushing transition for now. Probably because I could ridicule her with information I have now and she's very touchy about her professional image. But she can probably still push the transition and get away with it, making me responsible. She can wrap it all under the carpet too. It's the question whether her spite for me is stronger than her fear of me making her look bad again.
I feel it's time for some career change, which is a pity because I really like my current job. I never in my life expected to experience cinematic-class corporate drama first hand.
That sounds really stressful but try not to get too disheartened. Even if the role change does get pushed through, it might work out okay. "Failing" an internal audit is not the end of the world - they are kind of pointless if there are never any adverse findings. That would expose the dereliction of duty, and help make a case for resources to do all the catch-up work before you can pick up the new duties.
Thank you! 💙 😃
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I watched a J-drama called Hanzawa Naoki, it's about banker and at 1st episode he's getting all the blamed because his boss told him to do what the boss said
Even though he already said it's not good, too risky, etc
But the boss, "it's ok, I'll take all responsibilities"
In the end the boss is free from all responsibilities, instead the subordinate must pay for the boss' negligence
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That's sad to hear. :(
I've been in situations that's similar to this before, but not as extreme.
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Sadly, the people that succeed in management are often those that always say "yes" and give good news to their superiors and are able to avoid accountability, so it's pretty common. I deal with their fluid verbal instructions by sending a confirmation email for my records. That has prevented me from being held responsible for other people's poor decisions but also been "career-limiting".
Good luck!
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In my case, I've had a coworker who became a protegee and was promoted to vice-CEO while retaining some of her former duties. She has backing so powerful that even CEO can't touch her. We had some personal differences before her promotion, because I proved her wrong a few times. She recently talked with my manager about me taking over over one of them. If my manager didn't tell me that right away before decision was officially made I wouldn't have a chance to check - but I did. It turned out she didn't make yearly summaries of projects for 5 years. I would become instantly responsible for over a month of work (not counting for my other duties), including time consuming digging into archives to fill that 5 year gap, because summaries are recursive and can't complete current one without previous one and so on - and that's less than a month before internal audit. I let her know that I know and she held pushing transition for now. Probably because I could ridicule her with information I have now and she's very touchy about her professional image. But she can probably still push the transition and get away with it, making me responsible. She can wrap it all under the carpet too. It's the question whether her spite for me is stronger than her fear of me making her look bad again.
I feel it's time for some career change, which is a pity because I really like my current job. I never in my life expected to experience cinematic-class corporate drama first hand.
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That sounds really stressful but try not to get too disheartened. Even if the role change does get pushed through, it might work out okay. "Failing" an internal audit is not the end of the world - they are kind of pointless if there are never any adverse findings. That would expose the dereliction of duty, and help make a case for resources to do all the catch-up work before you can pick up the new duties.
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