I've been at the new job for 2 1/2 months now. I'm an accounts receivable/payable assistant. It's a temp position that is/was supposed to become permanent. I love the people I work with. They're funny, caring, patient, hardworking... just generally great people. I couldn't ask for more from a co-worker.
The supervisor is another story.
She is the worst manager I've ever met. Her management style is to not manage at all, micromanage, or manipulate. She is extremely disorganized and does not trust the people working in her department. They don't trust her either. My very first day, she pulled me aside and badmouthed them to me. Fortunately, she is rarely actually in my building. She spends most of her time at her other office at the sister company. When she is gone, things are good. This makes the few hours a week she is present somewhat bearable.
Things got worse when I had to go to the hospital for emergency gallbladder surgery. When I called her and told her I was on my way to the ER due to extreme pain and an inability to stop vomiting, her response was, "So this means you're not coming to work today?"
And she was put out about it!!!
I returned to work part time only three days after being released from the hospital. On my fourth day out of the hospital, this woman called me into her office and proceeded to tell me that she had observed I was slow & methodical (during the two hours she'd spent at the office that week) and that she didn't think I could keep up with the fast pace of her department. Then she tried to get me to agree with her! She was not happy that I refused to agree with her & pointed out to her that I had JUST BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL. I was flabbergasted at her insensitivity and complete lack of compassion. It had taken a whole lot of convincing from both my sis and myself to get the Doc to allow me to return to work that soon. Even his nurse was surprised that he'd allowed me back to work prior to 10 days after surgery. For her to expect me to be back to normal productivity so soon and then to base her opinion of my work abilities on that particular day was astounding.
Since then she has continued to look for any little thing to criticize me on. Fortunately, I don't make many mistakes so her opportunities have been few and far between. She has tried to blame me several times for things I haven't done and I have had to prove that it occurred prior to me being hired. She never apologizes for this. She even criticized me for my desk being neat, clean, and organized. Her comment was that since I had time to make sure things were organized, I must not have enough to do. She didn't like my response that people work differently and some of us naturally put things away while we work so that we can find them easily later, while others seem to be happier in a less structured environment. Both of her offices are complete disasters and she loses things all the time, so this didn't go over well.
Last week I got an e-mail from Human Resources. This job that was supposed to be temp to perm, was posted on their website and if I was interested in continuing with it I could fill out an application. No phone call from anyone. And no contact at all from my supervisor about this.
I did fill out the application. A job with benefits isn't easy to find these days. I got another e-mail today from HR asking if I was available Tuesday afternoon to interview. Since my supervisor was missing yet again, I sent her an e-mail asking if it was ok for me to be out of the department during that time. She NEVER responded. Instead I got another e-mail from HR saying that the previous time wasn't good for the supervisor & rescheduling the interview.
What's even better than this is what happened when I arrived at work this morning. Before I had even gotten my coat off, I was accused of leaving money out in the open overnight. There are 7 people in the department I work in. The supervisor did not ASK anyone if they knew what had happened or why. She just jumped to the conclusion that it was me and sent a scathing e-mail around blaming me and stating that it was unacceptable and against known procedure.
Even better, when she found out IT WASN'T ME, she said nothing. No apology. No talk with the girl who said she'd done it. No correction to everyone she'd sent the e-mail to in which she blamed me. Nothing.
I can handle a lot of things - especially when I like my co-workers. But being accused of mishandling money is NOT one of those things!
After work today, I went to the temp agency and requested that they find me another assignment ASAP. They happen to have two assignments that I'm qualified for & they're setting me up for interviews next week. I realize that I may not like my new co-workers as well as I like these, but I just can't handle having that woman as a supervisor any longer.
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