I have been in this company for almost a year, and my manager is very picky when it comes to my work. I do try my best but I still make small errors, for example I’ll accidentally place some information on the wrong excel tab. I’m able to catch my errors when given some time but she monitors my work and usually catches them before me. When she lectures me about my errors and tells me to step it up, I feel very anxious and scared because it almost feels like she will fire me. A couple months ago, her attitude towards my errors was so horrible that I had to talk to the director about it. She did change for around a month, but I feel like she is almost going back to how she was. She sets up an in progress meeting with me once a month to try and get me to stop making small errors, and every time she finds an error, she tells me she’s making a note of it and will discuss it in the meeting with me. She has done this 3 times so far today and our meeting is tomorrow. I feel really anxious and scared.
I’ve been feeling really anxious and scared for the entire time I’ve been working here. I don’t know how to approach the situation anymore. I like the job but I feel like I’m constantly under pressure. I don’t do the same thing everyday, I’ve tried to explain to her that I still make errors because I’ll do certain things once every 2-4 months. I don’t mean to make the errors. I’m also scared to ask her questions as well, 95 percent of the time I ask her a question, she asks me what I think I should do. If I get the answer wrong, she comes back and tells me I should know by now. I feel intimidated to ask her questions because of this.
I can’t tell if I’m just sensitive to the way she talks to me or if she is a special case