Evidently she isn't originally from hell, she just grew up there.
Immediately after my rant (see last post) I had like a 30 minute conversation with my boss where I laid it all out: her being nitpicky, negative, condescending, untrusting, etc. Oddly enough, she's okay with talking through these type of things. She has sensed tension between us and was concerned about it. She agreed that she wasn't a very affirming type of person and said she would try to do more of that. She told me that I'm doing great and that the things she complains about are like 5% of the stuff I still haven't gotten, but that she feels I'm doing great with the other 95%. The conversation ended with her agreeing to try to do better with her approach when giving criticism and me agreeing to try to be less sensitive about it. I can't say that I'm all "I have the bestest job in the whole wide world," but I'm definitely feeling a lot better about stuff. I still don't think the newspaper biz is the life for me. We'll see how long I last.
| September 14, 2004 04:21pm | 
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