I think I might have enough of this. I am on the verge of giving up...For the past few days, we were busy working on the usual work tasks and rushing to get the collateral to print. On Monday morning, I received a pack of brochures where my company was a partner in a international event. As the morning meeting already started, I passed some copies of the brochures straight out from the packaging to my boss who was rushing to the meeting.
When she came back, she was pissed off that I didn't check the brochure beforehand. Our company was not mentioned in it and she passed the brochure around until someone pointed out the omission. As usual, she blamed me for causing her the embarrassment and I thought to myself why didn't she take a look at the brochure first before blindly handing it out, if let's say, I am somewhat to blame. However, how would I know the brochure did not feature us? Its an event brochure that we are participating in so it is reasonable to assume we are in it! She also asked why we have not done an event poster which was mentioned at a meeting last wed. My GM asked about it at the meeting. My colleagues and I were busy with a lot of stuff and she failed to understand that we were still working on it. She was blaming us why we didn't get it done quick. And then she went on nagging at me about the 3rd draft of the collateral, telling me to rush the vendor to send it to us quickly and said she was being nice to help me forward the other draft to the other depts and my GM last friday night. I was taken aback again. Aren't we a team? Isn't it part of everyone's job that we help each other when the need arises? She made it sound like she is doing something that is not under her job scope. Sigh....I was so frustrated that morning with my boss...she was not being helpful at all in getting the collateral done. She just kept going at me and want things to go her way and not understanding our situation at all!
Needless to say, these two days were not that smooth-going at the office. My boss kept making changes even after me and my colleagues have looked though the collateral to make sure everything was in order. This morning, the final copy came in. I told her I have looked through and only minor changes are needed. I send the file to my vendor to get them started on the EDM version. In the afternoon, she wanted to make changes again and I was pissed off why she couldn't make the change in the morning! Worse, she called my colleague down to tell her the changes to make when I could not understand why she can't explain the changes to me instead as I was the one doing the checking and coordination work of the collateral from the beginning. I was really angry and told her that I would greatly appreciate that she tell me things that she need me to do PERSONALLY in future. She replied that since we have spotted some errors, we should change it and even mentioned something back that we are a team! Team my ass! Alright, making any last minute changes to make the collateral look good, I can accept that but I just cannot take it that she can't communicate or talk to me personally on the editing required. Except for a grammar error and sentence structure, there were changes which I felt were not necessary. I have been thinking that if she is more involved in the whole process, which I tried to get her in but she chose to brush it off and made excuses that she is very busy, the copywriting for the collateral could have been better and completed earlier!
Ok....very angry and upset today.....anyway the collateral will be printed tomorrow after much turmoil. After I left the office, I went for an appointment near my university where I had a chat with someone about the industry I am currently in. The meeting left me thinking whether my job suits me or not. As its only been about 2 years since I started working, he told me it is not too late to make a switch. If I can see myself working in that industry as a career for life and really possess the enthusiasm and real interest in it, then go for it. I have to balme myself for making a mistake of leaving my previous job. I seriously want to go back to where I was.
Still searching for the light...no April's Fool joke..
2 April 2008 10.28pm
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