Friday reflection – Are we to blame? – 7/18/25

I hope everyone is doing okay.

My co-worker says she’s done. Sadly she has only been confused, no support, and has been working hard since December 2024. She says she’s not acknowledged for all she’s done, but only dumped on because her co-worker “PEI” throws temper tantrums when their supervisor tries to assign her more work.

The doctors want to apply for other funds for their research and only notify them 2 days prior to uploading their documents to meet the sponsor deadline. It’s not easy to collect the documents especially with doctors that will be involved outside of the organization. Doctors don’t consider there are regulation internal and external and it takes 10 days to compile all the necessary documents and submit them into workflow so the conflict of interest and research departments approve to submit the project proposal to the sponsor agency.

Their supervisor tries to give assign it over to “DM” and “PEI” gets away with it. In addition to all the current work she’s in the same spot I am where we’re cleaning up the last 3 years. It’s really embarrassing 😳.

Like me we really didn’t know what we accepted. We both do have an instinct that someone is blaming us for the errors that have occurred before us, but they might be talking that it’s errors happening now! Insane! We believe this might be the case because her supervisor made an announcement that they should do better. I wasn’t shocked 🫢 one bit. He’s trying to deflect so the blame won’t fall on him. They seem to be pointing the finger at the new people when in fact it’s us cleaning up someone else’s mess. I can only imagine what they might be saying about me carrying the weight of a deficit 💸 in the millions. “DM” applied to another job. It would be sad 😔 to see her go if this is the case. Quality people will not stay when we’re treated less than and being blamed for everything.

Shocking 😮! The rest of the organization knows the reputation of this department. Oh wow! 🤯 It’s difficult for them to put blame on me because I am on track and I see the errors and dates of the errors. They can’t point the finger my way and I just am waiting for someone to do so and I’ll have to pull all my evidence. Ready, when and how it happened. They know they can’t fool me. I’ve been around the block for a while and know how this business works. It definitely didn’t occur under my watch. For this the leads and administrator are upset and I now see their attempts to catch me slipping, trying to call me out on the petty.

I had headaches this whole week since I’ve been back from vacation and it’s the workload and mostly deal with stubborn people. I am staying positive, marching to beat of my own 🥁 drum, organized. I’ve got a boundary and it’s my boss, hope he stays on my side. They don’t want me to be a public person. I cannot say much about my dilemma to many outside of my department. We’re growing and making progress because of my co-worker “DM” and myself. Their fear 😨 that I may speak out too much. I’m going to keep it in my back pocket. They don’t want it to get out because it will make them look bad.

I’m standing in strength and will not fear anyone because I have the truth. The only I kneel for and fear is God. All the Best!

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