she can shout too

I was struggling with tracking and usage of Microsoft project. My boss’s boss gave a zero gap deadline for the IP creation project. Neither the designers nor the implementators have good skills to execute the idea in decided technology but we said yes. There were few action items that were imposed by my boss on me through her perceptions. I prioritized myself and decided the rest of the information could be retrieved after I did resource leveling in the plan.

I did so and also did the crime of leaving office on time and my boss called me and gave me a blast, of course the tone was close to a shout. I just kept on requesting her to keep down the phone.

The whole of next week was in agony starting with Monday where in my interpretations of the event was successfully suppressed and boss gave one more piece of her mind.

I tried to work and also contemplated quitting. I have been also struggling to quit because I have done so many times in past that I don’t feel like doing again.

There were silly comments like why did I put smiley in the mail and how can I know the urgency of the task because I did not have the bigger picture.

In another meeting in the week I suggested a slippage because of design ideas from another grand thinker in the group who is short on temper and long on ideas. She recommended stretch. I recommended her to get somebody else to do the job and she wanted an email on that too. The agony week was more of email week than meetings.