I just had my boss tell me part of my work was mediocre. Some of my work is office work but it climaxes in action and execution, so some days are very very long and some weeks are very touugh. We are in the busiest season. I just got finished recovering from a tough weekend where I had to pick up action from a team member, as well as execute my own work the next day with 3 hours of sleep. I almost feel like I'm drowning. Everyone keeps asking for more and more and stuff always piles up from clients while I am away (while I'm doing the “execution” part of my job).
We have a project coming up that I've taken the lead on (because the other person fell off and they were allowed to) but even though one of my materials have been the same for the last three weeks, with minor changes, my boss changed all of it last minute. Even though they were presented beforehand and there were 2-3 weeks to change it beforehand.
I measured down to the inch. I made sure everything was covered and that everything was going to fit. I made them a whole new template. I counted inventorya and crossed all my “I”s and dotted the “T”s. Or so I thought. Then the other boss decided to change a variable that would change things, then another boss decided to change something else, all within the last day. And they said it was because the work wasn't great. That it was only “good”. I could tell that was the m being nice.
If the work wasn't great, why would no one step up and say so last week or the week before? Why would no one say that it needed work? It was presented to them time and time again. Why did no one bring up alternatives, until the very last minute?
Why do I even care?