How do you deal with a manager putting you down? (Rant)

Hey guys,

Sorry if I I fat finger. I'm positing this from my phone.

So, today I had a little issue. Let me start off by saying I'm slightly new. I just graduated school 6 months ago. I do Jr Sysadmin/support. I needed to create a .PST for a user. I never did it before. It's just something that never came up since I started here 4 months ago.

So my manager makes a stupid remark "this is basic stuff". Yes, it's extremely basic. I looked it up and it's three steps. I understand it's basic, but I never did it before....

My question is, how do you deal with this when you first start in IT? It made me feel pretty bad. Yet, two days ago I had to show someone who's been here way longer then me how to create a reservation in a DHCP scope. That's basic, but did my manager say any stupid remark to him? Nope.

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Comments

JustFred

I like UnixGuy's perspective on the issue. Try to look at things in a different light.

ImYourOnlyDJ

Codyy wrote: »

Take it as motivation. Lab and cert up, gain experience, do everything you can to improve. Who knows, the boss that insulted you may be coming to you one day asking you to sign his time card.

Never piss off someone who's younger and motivated, you never know where you'll see them down the road.

So true! Speaking from personal experience I was working in a retail/customer service type position and the manger along with several other workers flat out told me I wasn't qualified or ready for a higher level position, that I needed to put in more years, and that I was trying to move up too fast. Well year and a half later I have received two promotions and I'm sitting in the back office doing IT work in the same pay range as that manager

Its amazing to see the difference between employees that are motivated to do great things and those just collecting a paycheck hoping to move up one day.

YesOffense

Not to sound insensitive, maybe i've been in IT/customer service for too long, but that sounds like nothing to even pay attention to.