YoungHeart1980!

I hope everyone is doing okay.

I got to work this morning tore up, feeling down and defeated because of the brutal feedback I got yesterday (blog dated 8/28/23).

Today the result of my elaborate excel sheets that the supervisor criticized and didn’t make sense to her earned us our time back and a message in an email to us all with the following, “The investigator would like to congratulate your team for keeping his portfolio in order. He does not need a meeting and would like to give you your time back for other tasks.”

Meanwhile I hadn’t noticed the email that came in, but the supervisor and I were already on a call asking why I hadn’t updated my task list for her. Then I reminded her that the unforeseen special projects that I to handle for three top investigators took a lot of my time and she wasn’t happy with my elaborate excel workbooks with complex personnel and budget issues. Two, prepare end of month financial reporting, adjusting and correcting transactions, billing and the fact that the portion of my work is the top 6 of 11 investigators. Third, the unbalanced work between myself and the co-worker were her 5 investigators is equivalent only one of my investigators. When do I find the time to update my task list? But guess what if I have to work on the weekend don’t worry about it will get done. The supervisor hesitated to help when mentioned and asked which investigator I would like to let go to be able to meet the demand of the task list – this was also rejected. She has given my counterpart every opportunity that I have not had. The investigators I am comfortable with she thought were too easy for me. I told her if this was the case then she can give them to my counterpart and I would take her load of investigators, and…silence. She only acknowledged the imbalance of the workload and told me they were evaluating.

The supervisor sent me a Skype message wishing half hour, “woohoo! Good job!” She sent me an ecard with 100 points to purchase things at the organization store. I didn’t even know that this existed or how it works? That’s probably an apology without saying it. I did glance at other department job openings. I’m not the least bit stressed about the situation. I already know what to expect. All the Best!