I'm not your admin, bitches

So today we had a kick off meeting for a PPC campaign. This client has been especially hard to nail down so we scheduled this meeting about 2 weeks ago. I have been the main contact for them for the most part but seeing as I know nothing about PPC and my co-worker (we will call him Bill) is a lead generation guy, it only makes sense that he would run the campaign, be the main contact and do the project management. And seeing as he has one lonely project, he has the time and room for it.

So under this reasoning I schedule the call number (because I haven't taught him how to do it yet) and send it out to the internal team and basically say "This is all I am responsible for." And that is the last time I touch it. Maybe I should have pressed the fact that this is NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY, but I thought that someone as quick as this guy would get it.

Apparently not, because he totally flaked on the meeting this morning and also didn't send the call info to the client. Part of me is glad that he didn't send it because if he had and he wasn't there, I would have been sitting there with my pants down because I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS PROJECT. This is a learning project for me. And he knows this.

Now mind you I haven't gotten any shit about this from the boss (yet) and honestly the only thing I could have done differently is taken initiative and sent the info to the client. But that is the whole point of this exercise. I am not his admin yet I find myself being his admin and manager and it is fucking weird. Dude is supposed to be more experienced in this field than I, so essentially he is supposed to play the role of the head of the "department". Yet I find myself managing him and the department. And managing MY manager is not my role.

I also do the majority of the work involved in any given project. At least on the keyword side. Which is fine since I am more comfortable with that but I'm not really learning from him. Rather he corrects my mistakes and I cover his ass because he can't keep track of what is going on further than 2 assignments. Dude has two things on his plate that I BET YOU he hasn't looked at yet and need to be looked at yet he is researching "san francisco moving" to see what comes up in Google. Um which client is that for? YOUR OWN??? Dude you are at the office. I know you have private clients but if you want/need to keep them, you should be doing that on your own time. Or be on contract.

The funny part is a feel kinda bad because he sounded so exasperated this morning. I mean he totally owns that he flaked but clearly didn't think it would be such a big deal when it clearly is. But then I get pissed at myself for feeling sorry for him because WEEKS ago I washed my hands of this. I am done babysitting him when it comes to small details. He is really good at selling and producing but managing, yeah no.

And you know what, I actually don't care if I need to manage the "department" but then I need to have less responsibility when it comes to production. Because I end up spending my evenings in the office because I have had distractions all day and wasn't able to get production work done. If I need to keep calendar and schedule his meetings and run projects than I can. However it wasn't what I was hired for and I would rather not slide back into an admin position. What am I saying? Rather not? I DO NOT want to be an admin again!!! I'm smarter than that shit! I AM NOT YOUR ADMIN, BITCH!!!!