I work as a contracted “Security Professional” that has just been promoted to supervisor. The majority of my on-site responsibilities is namely report-writing in regards to the events of my day-to-day site-specific events. Mundane or otherwise, typically our contract's own security team (which is used to oversee ours, giving our Account Lead advice in how to write the rules and training of all on-site personale) tells our Security Team to only report on the most 'uncommon occurrences' such as site-visitors, or site-related crime. They also have the authority to inform our Account Lead what needs to be fixed, adjusted, corrected, etc.
I've been informed that my report writing skills are 'inept' because they're “too detailed” for documents legally-binding and on occasion used by local law enforcement for the sake of case-info specific to vehicular incidents (thefts, vandalism, destruction of property, etc). I am to be retrained because I do not know how to “correctly write reports” despite being promoted by said individual's approval to my boss, because of my skills in constructing these reports swiftly with an abundance of detail including camera numbers, event timestamps, the objective/motive of the subjects/site-employees/contractors within those timeframes as reported by witnesses, and compile it all in topically segmented 'paragraphs' to best give the reader a 'flow' of the report per incident-witness.
It feels so condescending to be acknowledged for my hard work, only to then be informed (despite the response provided showing clear evidence of specific details I did supply in my report in which they most immediately reference, being timestamped with an asterisk to further specify the constraints of the unorthodox report's construction against site-specific procedure due to having four incidents all in congruence, happening back to back while I was present for a separate incident.) that I lack the skills to “coherently write, anything…”. Hell, I italicize my reports' “parenthesis'd” content, to further contribute to the ease of the reader's comprehension.
I don't know what to do, I'm to be spoken to by on-site professionals in regards to my retraining, of which my boss the Account Lead for our contract (who has every supervisor do their 'position-specific' responsibilities on a schedule they only use as a suggestion, despite pretending to practice company standards for both attendance and a plethora of other concerning details, such as e-mailing their employees when they're to be confronted and retrained, something they told our site-security overheads he accomplished despite me only just now hearing about this from a coworker days after I was to be initially informed.) is to speak with me and have me retrained… for writing reports I'm obligated to and having credit taken from for these skills by said Account Lead. I'm growing tired and defeated, working a schedule that no other employee is subjected to while having my work made into an example of my boss' ability to 'boss'; and this hypocrisy I'm supposed to endure is going to be about how I'm not good at writing the reports “like my boss said they trained me to” despite them literally writing fragmented sentences and falsifying documents with hearsay for the sake of ease.
I suppose I'm writing this to vent, but I'm writing this also to gleam what crumbs of advise I can from such an honest and aware community as this to best put this behind me. Whether that encouragement or kicking my teeth in over complaining about nothing; I know we all face “hardships” in our day to day and my heart goes out to those who are surviving, or enduring a shit-job to make it by for just a little longer until prospects improve. I'm with ya, if you're one of those folks. Feel free to ask anything, I can't share certain details about the job/site/contract, hence why this was probably a big vague garbled mess of senseless text; it just grinds my gears to receive criticism that isn't constructive, shows off close-minded attitudes that aspire towards ignorance for the sake of ease, and don't commit enough time and effort to both read your work in order to validly criticize it. How am I supposed to improve if you never read the document you said you did… so it just becomes easier to get me retrained because you don't like my effort… that shit is so discouraging.