Your manager starts canceling your weekly 1:1s. How many cancelations would it take for you to start looking?

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So I like the work and I like the people I work with. They're smart, work hard, and they'll do what it takes to make shit happen for me. (And I would for them too). But that's where the doubts start to creep in.

My manager is really high up, like a couple levels from CEO and I'm an analyst. (not many ppl from CPG on blind so I hope this doesn't oust me)

Coming from a really shitty firm before bounty, I took this as a positive. I mean, access to an advocate who has the power and confidence to say yes? Guidance and vision from 10,000 ft up? Huge visibility on like all projects? Someone who can actually impact my career? Come on, sign me the f up!!

We get along great. And he cares about my development as well. 7 months back, I woke up and realized alot of the work I was doing was very similar to PM work. I asked him if I could officially transition to a PM role internally because I've been thinking about it for awhile. He told me they actually needed more PM focus on the digital/data side and asked me to build out roadmaps for products I think would add value.

So I did. I even launched a couple products internally just last month. Nothing groundbreaking, by tech standards - it was just an excel add-in and a new dashboard that enabled us to track search rankings better. But it felt amazing. It's hard to describe, but there's a certain sense of satisfaction you get from seeing people using what you built. I wanted to work on more of these projects and be rewarded (financially or title bump) for the increased impact/value to the organization. I still haven't officially made the transition.

But ever since the Nestle acquisition (they acquired bounty), he's been less available. I know he still cared cuz he called me right after the announcement to ask if I had any questions on anything. Was super open and I appreciated that.

Then he started missing our weekly meetings. He would text me and say "sorry 52mbb, running late. Will join in a few." Sometimes he'd join, and other times he wouldn't. On the times he didn't make it, I chalked it up to him being busy dealing with high level stuff above my pay grade. Every time he would text me to move our check-in, I'd reply with "no worries! I'll work with [assistant] to reschedule."

Our text history gradually became filled with these messages and looking back, I wonder if he's still the right manager for me. I know I want to get out of CPG and into tech, but he was a major factor holding me back. But just the last couple of weeks, he canceled two 1:1s in a row, and postponed my perf review twice.

Now I'm pondering if this a valid enough reason to start looking or is it petty of me to even think that way..? I'm sure there are issues he's dealing with on the integration, teams being restructured and etc. If you were me, what would you do?

I guess there isn't really a point to any of this and if you've made it this far, thanks for reading. Just needed to tell anyone who would listen..

Happy Thanksgiving!

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