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Got told off for trying to be nice

So I work in academia, and believe me when I tell you people are vain to no end. My boss is an 82 old with management methods straight out of the 1960's, i.e. drop a little asinine comment in passing, completely destroy your work during meetings etc… Anyway I need to use another professor's instrument as we don't have it ourselves (named Mark), and I write an email to him starting my email off with “Hi Marc” (I'm not a native English speaker, I thought Marc was the right spelling). Anyway I cc'd my boss in, and low and behold not 30 mins pass and I get an email shitting on me telling me I don't know how to spell, I should address people by their title, this is not professional. I fucking started 3 months ago, getting insane pressure from this dude that pays me next to nothing. I…


So I work in academia, and believe me when I tell you people are vain to no end.
My boss is an 82 old with management methods straight out of the 1960's, i.e. drop a little asinine comment in passing, completely destroy your work during meetings etc…
Anyway I need to use another professor's instrument as we don't have it ourselves (named Mark), and I write an email to him starting my email off with “Hi Marc” (I'm not a native English speaker, I thought Marc was the right spelling). Anyway I cc'd my boss in, and low and behold not 30 mins pass and I get an email shitting on me telling me I don't know how to spell, I should address people by their title, this is not professional.

I fucking started 3 months ago, getting insane pressure from this dude that pays me next to nothing. I just want to get in his face and tell him all the reasons he's a terrible, incompetent boss.

Anyway, thanks to this sub for helping me vent..

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