I have always known the devil is in the details. It is these details that have a massive compounding effect.
My job had a funding cut.
- Friday I was told that I would start a new job on Monday, the good news is my salary wouldn't change.
- I was given a position description. When I started asking questions about it, I was told it was not a manager's position like before, and, oops sorry we were using your manager's Position Descripton to write yours. In effect, demoted. I felt like shit. Or I was given a raise because I did not have to supervise. (perspective shift)
- Informed my new location was no longer an office but a cubical. I was shown a cubical by the window and one next to it, not by the window. I said I'd like the window, of course.
- I was told I couldn't have the window, mine was the other. That cubical by the window is vacant to this day.
Are these microaggressions?
Alternative ways for this, and keep anyone's attitude up.
- Invite the person to discuss what is happening. Invite the employee to accept the new position and the good attributes of it.
- Inform of the change in position and have the PD correct. I was embarrassed to be demoted and I felt tricked.
- Don't fake out as if there is a choice for where to sit when there isn't.
- It feels extra shitty the window cubical has been vacant for months.
The key to all of this is the communication. With the right presentation, the morale is lifted or minimally maintained.
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