How do you deal clueless upper management?

Asked by chelle21689 (7907) November 6th, 2017 from iPhone

How do you deal when they have the upper hand and say? This is bringing back memories of my first job but maybe not as bad, maybe it has to do with new management (executives, vp, etc.)

But they often forget they tell me one thing and another, often keep forgetting to completing a necessary task I need to do my job where I need to follow up when the deadline is approaching, etc. then somehow they try to make me a scapegoat when I have emails to protect myself that it’s their stupidity in forgetting to tell me something. I’ve been doing my job for almost two years and recently with new management everywhere I think they still have a lot to learn but blame me for their mistakes. I haven’t had any issues until recently. Not to mention my new boss, I often have to keep reminding him of what’s changed or what is our process.

I’m just annoyed at everyone. Makes me wonder why I still work in an office because of this stuff.

An example is someone forgetting to tell me they’ve offered someone a job and had them start and didn’t even tell anyone! Their excuse was they forgot. This is an executive by the way.

Another recent one happened where I received a start date for a new hire with the approval from upper management. Then I get an email from them saying it’s the wrong date and they’re working on finalizing it and to hold off. I told them to let me know when they have the date finalized. Then 2 days later it turns out the date is correct and they’ve had the employee start and wonder why I haven’t done anything! They never told me if it was correct and to hold off on processing. Ugh! Now I have to explain to my boss tomorrow why another person started without paperwork. Turns out the VP forgot to tell the supervisor that he decided on a start date. He was CC’d on the email sent to me saying it was incorrect but never responded to the email acknowledging it.

I want to stress that this wasn’t an issue before, I just happen to have two in a week for whatever reason. I feel it makes me look like I’m not doing my job and they’re putting me in an awkward situation.