My boss used to be pretty chill. After a recent messy project where he thinks I'm under-performing, he's been sending me emails. And I respond with facts to correct where he may be misunderstanding.
The latest email he sent me is about another project he thought I was working on for weeks. I responded I haven't started, and reminded him that he should already know this from a different conversation him and I had.
Then he replied to say that this week there wasn't much done. I want to reply and list to him task A, B, C that I did. But I'm sure he will say these tasks could be done in two days rather than a week.
I would ignore this and just do the work he wants. But since he's been emailing me with a papertrail, I feel forced to argue this to the end, otherwise I'm admitting implicitly what he writes is right.
My partner works and can support us so I have no pressure to keep this job. So not afraid to keep on challenging his perception.
Thoughts?