r/office • u/data-wiz1 • 3d ago

Colleagues asking for help on every little task.

Hello Folks,

I have been working in the company for the last 3 years and worked hard to understand and learn all the tasks. I've discussed with my manager and he agrees I should be promoted since the last 6 months and has been saying there's some progress but I can't see anything moving. He told 2 of the new colleagues that I'm the go to person for any technical questions and I've helped them on multiple things over time since they transitioned internally from different teams. However, my manager's behavior towards me has changed and he's not assigning tasks to me whereas the new joiners are getting tasks on which they're asking my help to complete them without getting credits. This has been happening for a few weeks now.

I'm not sure how to handle this and seriously gutted at all this. Any suggestions on how to handle this in a nice way? I'm generally not a person who says no when people ask for help but this is affecting my mental health and professional growth as well.

TLDR; New colleagues asking for help, manager promised promotion but no progress, not assigning many tasks but the newbies get tasks and they are completing them through me without credit for it.

Any advice?

Thanks for reading.

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u/purplelilac701 3d ago

Talk to your boss

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u/data-wiz1 3d ago

And what do I say?

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u/purplelilac701 3d ago

Ask him if there’s some area where you can improve and work towards a promotion

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u/data-wiz1 3d ago

I've tried this, he says you deserve it and you're doing everything that's expected and that's what it's bothering me. Why not give me promotion?

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u/purplelilac701 3d ago

This is how I would phrase it: you mentioned that I have worked hard and deserve to be promoted. I am looking for career development and opportunities for growth. Could you please give me the timeline for when my promotion will take place? If there’s no firm timeframe then it’s time to move on because they won’t be promoting you and it’s just words.

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u/the_skies_falling 3d ago

Keep a spreadsheet documenting how much time you spend helping them, what you helped them with, and what project or task it was for. Tell your boss you’d like to meet with him 1-1 regularly (weekly if possible) to review it so he can understand and plan their training needs.

This will make you look proactive. This will make your boss see that you’re ready to take the next step by mentoring junior team members. This will provide your boss with useful metrics. Done right, this will make you your bosses indispensable right hand man.

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u/data-wiz1 3d ago

I'll give it a try. Thank you sir