Right in my last appraisal I was told that I am 'too nice' and that I should 'learn to say no'. Despite this maybe not being the best way to work i am rather proud of the fact that I please people. I find it very satisfying and get rather upset if I feel that I have genuinely offended someone and that they don't like me. So imagine how deverstated I felt when my new manager decided that she would call me into a meeting room with my old manager and the regional manager to say that I was unhelpful, blunt and generally rude.
I was gutted. Everyone else i know has told me to completely ignore her (which I am trying to do) and that it is completely false. Yes I admit I can be a little blunt sometimes, particularly when tired or extremely busy, but I have always been brought up to be polite and accomodating and NEVER rude.
I can take constructive criticsm but the way she spoke was not constructive it left me feeling 6 inches tall and crying in the loos for 10 mins afterwards.
This woman is lucky she even has a job as they was talk following the merger of our companies that she would be left redundant.
Grrr well I'm just getting on with things. I ended up leaving my old job because of a woman like her and descending into depression and self harm. That is NOT going to happen again.
2008-04-24 @ 10:27