Would anyone mind sharing their opinion on the following scenarios. Sorry for the length, comments appreciated.
A manager arranged a meeting with a colleague, John, at work (its a new job for me) . The appointment time came and went without the meeting taking place and the manager said to me "John has forgotten to remind me that we had a meeting, I'll have to have words with him".
Now this struck me as odd, as it seemed the manager was trying to blame someone else for his own failure. The way I see it, it was the manager who set the appointment and it was his responsibility to keep to it (John isn't a PA or anything like that).
The reason I'm asking is that I'm seeing a lot of things going wrong, and it seems to me to stem from a lack of leadership.
Another example is when I presented some research to a manager and pointed out there were several things that required attention. She didn't look at the report due to time, she says, but blamed me for not telling her what aspects I thought required attention.
Another colleague was told to redesign some equipment to make it work better which meant taking it off line for quite some time, but management still accepted work from customers which required the use of the equipment. Said colleague is being blamed for not getting the redesign done, but how can she when it's being used?
I'm beginning to feel that I don't fit in at this new company - everything seems to work backwards to me and I'm thinking it's a blame culture.
Do the above scenarios seem strange to anyone else? I've never come across this kind of behaviour before. Thanks for any comments.
A manager arranged a meeting with a colleague, John, at work (its a new job for me) . The appointment time came and went without the meeting taking place and the manager said to me "John has forgotten to remind me that we had a meeting, I'll have to have words with him".
Now this struck me as odd, as it seemed the manager was trying to blame someone else for his own failure. The way I see it, it was the manager who set the appointment and it was his responsibility to keep to it (John isn't a PA or anything like that).
The reason I'm asking is that I'm seeing a lot of things going wrong, and it seems to me to stem from a lack of leadership.
Another example is when I presented some research to a manager and pointed out there were several things that required attention. She didn't look at the report due to time, she says, but blamed me for not telling her what aspects I thought required attention.
Another colleague was told to redesign some equipment to make it work better which meant taking it off line for quite some time, but management still accepted work from customers which required the use of the equipment. Said colleague is being blamed for not getting the redesign done, but how can she when it's being used?
I'm beginning to feel that I don't fit in at this new company - everything seems to work backwards to me and I'm thinking it's a blame culture.
Do the above scenarios seem strange to anyone else? I've never come across this kind of behaviour before. Thanks for any comments.
