Because You Have Always Done
Sometimes, people conveniently forget the process or roles and responsibilities and tell you "because you have always done this so it is expected out of you." I have seen that if you are a performer…
Sometimes, people conveniently forget the process or roles and responsibilities and tell you "because you have always done this so it is expected out of you."
I have seen that if you are a performer and you are also a giver, then you tend to do more than what is requested or expected out of you. It is your natural tendency to take more than what you are supposed to do and you do it. You provide perfect solutions. No one can raise a doubt about the work you do.
You know you are doing this out of your role but then all of it is because you want the organization to sustain and grow. Maybe out of the sheer love of it.
But what if the same organisational leadership change now demands this from you. It is not that it was your prime responsibility but you did it in the past. Now the new leadership is holding this against you without realising it was never your work.
So if you challenge, your attitude is a problem according to them. If you help them by teaching them how to do it, they don't want to do it. And everything happens on WhatsApp.
How people fail to look within and see what their own roles and responsibilities are and are they doing enough. I have gone through this recent times and I know I may be washing dirty linen in public.
But I am sure, there are performers like me who are going through something similar and hence wanted to write. I have found one solution to this
1. Pick up the phone and talk and/or wait for someone to call back.
2. Don't do the work because they want you to. Do the work as a help in the backend and be ready to deliver, if asked.
3. Backchannels always work.
4. If you receive a phone call, stick to your roles and responsibilities and ask your boss, if there are any anomalies in the same or are you short of delivering your primary roles and responsibility.
5. If there are no problems in primary discharge of responsibility, then ask them to think logically whose responsibility the other work is. Not because you have done in the past but primarily who should be held responsible for this.
6. Stick to the point and close.
I believe that "this too shall pass" works so well on a WhatsApp. You know your time will come and you can explain your part. But it has to happen only when the other party is ready to listen to. Else everything will fall on deaf ears.
Thank you life for giving me this understanding.