That's the thing. On this project I'm 100% chargeable since we're traveling for a project. So time and billing are completely irrelevant.
The boss just turns to the other person on the trip every time. She doesn't ask my opinion. She doesn't even address me. Zero tasks. Nothing. I've been nothing but positive, dutiful, and helped where I could this trip.
We're learning a new system and she'll ask, "Is there any way to do this?" The experts who have gone through this all say, "No, not that we know of." And five minutes later I have a solution in a system I've never used before this week. Nothing. No acknowledgement, no "Hey, can you help us figure xyz out", nothing.
I honestly don't know why I'm even on this trip if this is the kind of usage they're going to get out of me. Talk about a waste of $6,000+.
I'm really getting tired of this new role I'm in. It's supposed to be a leadership role yet I'm being given no opportunities and the tasks I have been given are menial at best. I've taken the initiative a number of times but it's quickly shut down only to have my work duplicated a few weeks later. It's really starting to **** me off. I take initiative, someone else gets credit.
I'm going to pull my boss aside at some point here and ask her why she hired me if I'm going to be asked to do nothing. She already knows I'm not happy. So she asks me why I'm being so quiet in the middle of dinner with everyone at the table. What the hell kind of leadership is that?
I'm loving my extra time on the trip, all of the interactions I've had with my German colleagues, and all of the learning I've done so far. But goddam, throw me a bone here.
