long post: I recently started in a new position of which I am working in new project with a senior coworker. Of the chart, she is smart and has tons of experience but the style of management since I started to m shadowing her, has been quiet a barrier to gain confidence and experience for me.
My boss assigned us this project together for me to lead the external communications, but my coworker, since day one, has been asking me to draft for her this communications while questioning every single detail. At the end of the day, original draft that I wrote ends up being send by her name with the same content but with sort in her “style” and me in CC.
In general there is an odd dynamic. I do the tasks as instructed by her, get almost no feedback but when I repeat, she comes up with a passive aggressive round of comments that sounds for me that I did not follow what she instructed. Repeating the same task and taking her comment in consideration, I get a contradictory feedbacks, as if the way I did at first was correct, but now is not. Obviously this way of work end ups confusing me to know what is the real l right way to do a quality outcome. I’ve been working with other coworker and it is completely different dynamic.
Beside that, when making a question sometimes I get quiet rude answers from this person, like check it out yourself or google it yourself (which it is true I could but sometimes I do extensively search and I cannot find this in the processes resources, so naturally I ask a senior person). On top of that, more than once, out of nowhere, she has come up to my desk to randomly (and loudly) requiring me to explain how and why does an specific internal process works, sort of a test me in public.
How do you deal with this people?
I really need some tips because I will be working in several project with her.
Edit: punctuation.