How to deal with difficult and unsupportive manager?
I’m a senior credit analyst at a fintech, working remotely. I joined this firm for about a year and the first half was great when I used to work with my old manager. He and I worked, collaborated and supported each other very well. I was left with an excellent year-end review from him.
However, he had to move to a different department so I’m left with this manager, who has been working for the company for a long time. Maybe that’s why she micromanages me every little thing and judges me harshly if I do not know about something and ask her questions. When I ask, she would answer and then say something like ‘Why don’t you know about this? I’m concerned about you’. When I do not ask but try to give a feedback/comment on a project, she would not listen and did not give me any good reason for why not. She’s freaked out whenever there are problems or little mistakes that I made and criticized my ability as if I’m the only person in charge of this mistake while she’s my manger and I submitted the work to her and she approved it. The last straw would be when I submitted a data report and she did not even check but said I did it wrong because the number is too big to be true. She said I needed to ‘use common sense’ when working (this hurts a lot). I nervously checked my work and couldn’t find an error. I asked her where I made the mistake. After she checked, she said there’s no mistake but I could have presented it better. She always finds reasons for blaming things on me and does not apologize for making me doing ineffective work for 3 hours.
She now puts me in an improvement plan. I try to keep a professional attitude and work very hard, 12-14 hrs/day but it’s not enough to her. She still complains that ‘I could have done better’ because she cannot find any mistake in my work. I think she might have a problem with me but I don’t know why. I’m super stressed out and even have a PTSD whenever I see a notification about her comment/reply when I ask or submit something to me because I know she would always criticize. She has never said something nice to me even a single time.
I try to be fair and ask myself if I can still do better. But I absolutely tried my best. I got great feedback from my ex manager but not with this person, so it’s probably about the fitting problem. I cannot ask to transfer to another position at the company and the market is very soft now. But I guess I have to move on from this manager and this company sooner or later…
This is the first time I got this issue. Curious to hear if you got into this problem before or what would you do if you were me?
you may be marked to get cut regardless of your ability. send me this bitches name and ill give her a phone tomorrow.
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