Third manager in fourteen months. Every time I get going I'm re-explaining myself from scratch.

Not really a complaint post. The company's reorganised twice and it isn't anyone's fault in particular. But the effect on me is real and I don't know what to do about it.

Manager one knew I'd untangled the whole notification service and wanted me on bigger backend work. He left. Manager two never got past thinking of me as the person who does the small tickets, and then moved teams in April. The new one started three weeks ago, and the goals doc I'm being measured against references two people who don't work here anymore.

So I'm perpetually at the start of the relationship where someone is still deciding what I'm capable of. By the time they know, they're gone.

Has anyone actually solved this? Do you keep your own running record and hand it over in the first 1:1, or does showing up with a document about yourself read as weird and defensive?