Hey everybody!
So I am at this new job for 6 months, after being 7 years in another company. I was looking for a new challenge and a better paycheck in the area, I am a local manager now. I don't want to get too deep in detail about the company, etc.
Past week I did a mistake with a big client of ours, something about a delivery that shouldn't be done in a standard way. The thing is, I didn't know that it should be done in a different way, since I have been doing everything for the past 6 months as I have been told.
When the bomb dropped, my manager called me informing about it (since I wasn't even aware of), and asked me if I knew that for that client things should be done differently and if my trainer informed me about it. I said that I didn't know about it, since nobody told me nothing about it when I was being trained for 2 months. I even told my manager that this could have happened more often since I am there.
Next day, my manager was called to a meeting with the CEOs, and literally told them that “since his (mine) justification was that he (me) didn't know about it and that his (my) trainer didn't pass him (me) that information, then it is my responsibility.”
I know this because he forwarded me an email summarizing the meeting, where I am not part of it, between him and the CEOs, where that is written.
What do you think about this? Is he somehow trying to avoid being blamed? Shouldn't it be more correct to say something like “he didn't know about it, so it is on me.”?