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This is when you document everything. Anytime you have a call with your boss you take notes and write action items on them and email them the copy— make sure to give credit to you in your notes in a factual way that flows for the meeting but also leaves a paper trail on your work (ex. Sarah completed X,y,z in account A, generating x,x, results her next steps are blah, blah).
It doesn’t need to be anything long just a “thank you for the call, sending you the recap of our meeting, notes and action items are below.” Cc any relevant people who were in the call.
Hopefully boss catches on that you’re a documenter and will watch himself more on the fibs and if you get thrown under the bus it’s a “wait let me check our meeting notes I sent you. I see here on 6/12 we discussed blah, blah. Was this not correct? I didn’t receive any initial feedback after our meeting that I was handling this wrong”
This works to an extent until the gaslighting begins. I would pull up my notes and my boss would pretend he didn’t see them and continue on his merry way.
Quit. Working for untrustworthy people is a dead-end.
I have a toxic boss who started out doing this, and now he’s onto bigger and bigger lies. He has thrown me under the bus to save his own skin multiple times. I reported it to HR who advised me to quit, and I’ve been applying elsewhere like crazy. Hopefully your agency isn’t as toxic as mine but I recommend documenting everything and utilizing resources that aren’t directly under your current manager (developing a rapport with other higher ups, asking other team members questions so your manager doesn’t set you up to fail, etc.).
Thanks for all inputs. It seems like a clique.. boss, his manager and others. I don't think anyone will listen or back up me. Worst thing : I don't know if I understand it wrong but it has happened few times where I knew it was a lie clearly. This office has high online ratings culture wise so hard to understand why this is happening
Sometimes I feel like they are trying to get me to quit other times I am told this is usual in sales team. This kinda aggression/weird behaviour
Build and keep a paper trail!!!! Anything and everything did they ever send you say to you write it down keep a notebook with dates and times so that way they can go back and look it will help I promise
What do you mean he constantly fibs? What kind of fibs?
Ooo yuck. He doesn’t sound like a good manager at all. Definitely document everything. I like to send follow up emails after a meeting to confirm understanding and action items on both sides.