Woke up in a panic for the second time this week. I was dreaming/remembering life at work. One task and its attending supervisory actions in particular is apparently weighing on my mind.
Every month the same thing would happen. I would complete the task according to the guidelines that I wrote and my supervisor approved (in writing and all that crap). I would then bring the paperwork to her. She would pretend to look it over and compare it to the electronic version, and then go off. She would first delete all the work on the shared drive, and then harangue me for about an hour, never telling me how it was wrong, but instead screaming at me how it had to be done right. I would then take the paperwork back to my desk, fumble it around a bit for the sake of show, copy and paste my back ups of the work WITH NO CHANGES and then the next day present her with the "corrected" work, which she would then pronounce correct the following day and why couldn't I just do it that way to begin with?
Yeah.
This was just one of the things that I sacrificed my sanity to. I'm pretty good at dodging conflict. I try to establish and then meet or exceed expectations in that department so as to avoid conflicts. She thrived on creating conflicts. This was a terrible match for a working (or any) relationship. I did complain to every channel I could. I was told repeatedly to sit down and shut up. So, I went a little mad instead.
Like you do.
I'm hoping that getting this out of my head will let me sleep better.
Every month the same thing would happen. I would complete the task according to the guidelines that I wrote and my supervisor approved (in writing and all that crap). I would then bring the paperwork to her. She would pretend to look it over and compare it to the electronic version, and then go off. She would first delete all the work on the shared drive, and then harangue me for about an hour, never telling me how it was wrong, but instead screaming at me how it had to be done right. I would then take the paperwork back to my desk, fumble it around a bit for the sake of show, copy and paste my back ups of the work WITH NO CHANGES and then the next day present her with the "corrected" work, which she would then pronounce correct the following day and why couldn't I just do it that way to begin with?
Yeah.
This was just one of the things that I sacrificed my sanity to. I'm pretty good at dodging conflict. I try to establish and then meet or exceed expectations in that department so as to avoid conflicts. She thrived on creating conflicts. This was a terrible match for a working (or any) relationship. I did complain to every channel I could. I was told repeatedly to sit down and shut up. So, I went a little mad instead.
Like you do.
I'm hoping that getting this out of my head will let me sleep better.
