Is this worth escalating?

[Batya33]

As a manager, I'd be enthusiastic about helping someone who opened up a positive negotiation about what more he or she can offer to me and my team in exchange for my assistance with further development, either on my team or beyond it rather than someone who laid a complaint at my feet as though it's up to me to resolve it. That's just a bummer, not an incentive for me to invest in that person.

 

Work is not a therapeutic environment. Those who seek to use it as an educational one can do so through proper negotiation of a quid pro quo exchange of the added value he or she is willing to bring TO management in exchange for the additional value he or she seeks to gain from management.

 

Nothing comes for free. If you want to complain to management about ANYthing, be prepared to offer at least 3 options for resolution that demonstrate a value-added reason for that manager invest in implementing your suggestions.

 

So what did you bring to the table as your offering beyond your complaint?

 

Yes and I made that point above and love how it is made here.