Posted by TexasChic on May 29, 2008, at 21:21:22
In reply to Re: Thanks yall! » TexasChic, posted by Kath on May 29, 2008, at 20:25:47
First of all, my boss had been being unusually nice. At first I thought it was great and everything was going to finally work out. But I kept seeing things, like her keeping track of how many errors I made and things like that. I began to realize she must be up to something. Then yesterday, I sent her an email about the internal job I wanted to apply for (she was out of the office, but had access to email). In the past, my applying for jobs has caused her to have hostile reactions, but I have to tell her because she would be notified about it, and be mad if I hadn't asked her about it ahead of time. I tried to do everything right, as she had specified in the past, but she has always been very contradictory about it.
The result this time was being called into the conference room (always a bad thing). She said she had written out my goals that we had talked about during my review (months ago). The list consisted of very subjective things like, I should be able to do this or that in a timely manner. That leaves her room to make it mean however long she wants. There were also a lot of other very strict deadlines that the other people in my position are not subject to. But the thing that bothered me the most was she made this specific rule that I have a certain task completed by the Friday of every print cycle. This is something that everyone else has until monday to do, but I've always gotten done early by friday - up until a couple of weeks ago when I took friday off. I didn't get it done until Monday. My feeling is, on my next review she is going to try to say I missed this deadline (even though it wasn't specified until after the fact). I feel like she set it up so that she will be able to score me as less than acceptable, which will put me on suspension, which means I can't apply for other jobs, which means I have no way to get away from her. I can't really figure out her reasoning, other than she is a control freak.
So that's why I got so upset and cried yesterday. Today I talked about it to my coworker/friend who also works for her. She seemed to think I was overreacting (although she also told me to document everything that has happened). Then my boss came in and acted completely normal. I started wondering myself if I was being paranoid. But there's no changing the crazy way she has acted and things she has said. I am going to continue to do my best and try to stay positive, but I'm not going to let myself get complacent again.
-T
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