Hello everyone, I have recently(in December) joined a new company. I work in Marketing for a big beauty brand.
My manager who is legally my mentor as I have a study/work contract. She has complete psychotic tendencies and is as horrible as she gets.
1 – micro management
She wants me to send my emails to her and she want to approve them.
She had a look at my notes during meetings and asked me many times to write notes like her on a notebook than on my computer which I prefer.
She had asked me to put a STAR on one of the ppt slides and she changed the position of the star from the left side if the slide to the right.
2 – Rude
My manager has the tendency to always keep a smile on her face and still utter absolute rude shit.
She doesn’t ask me how my school went, how my weekend was, or anything.
Last week I tried to initiate a conversation as she was sitting next to me. I talked about my thesis topic which is related to what I do at work and she blatantly told me “Are you sharing your thoughts with me which is not related to work while I am doing something important?”
3 – Current situation
Friday, she asked me to take care of a situation and send a brief to a company for something , she wanted me to get it approved by her.
I had written the brief in the morning and after 2 times updating it, I sent it directly to the event company the third time because it was sufficient for me.
It was 5 pm on Friday after so many on and offs with the brief considering a lot of people leave work early on Fridays especially other companies.
I had my school the next week and my manager messaged me on whatsapp asking me if I sent the brief and told me She hadn’t approved it(after updating it 3times)
Monday when I got back to work after my school week, she called me to tell me why did I send the brief without her approval and How can she trust me now?
She ended up giving the lead of the project to someone else – just because I sent the email and didn’t cc her.
I work more hours than in my contract with a lot of workload, I feel very demotivated to go to work. I have no rapport with her. She is rude, micro managing and just horrible. I don’t want to quit the job because I would waste my time as I need the 6 months of contract to finish my masters but I have no motivation to go to work.
I feel guilty all the time and blame my actions for her rude behaviour.
Whatever I do is never sufficient for her and she asks me to make minute changes like changing bullet points to numbers in an email.
Changing the position of a star in a slide apart from giving rude responses all the time.
P.S. She is very nice to all her colleagues who are not interns, it’s just the subordinates.
Also do consider the work culture of the country I work in. Here people have good understanding and relationships with their colleagues and they eat lunch together, have drink after working days, overall a healthy environment.
My manager has not even had an outside of work conversation with me in the past 3 months.
I appreciate your help on how to navigate the situation.
** I plan to talk to her about everything in a meeting next week. Also they don’t have an option of firing me because of my contract.