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Hi,
I am grateful I have a job, but am increasingly unhappy because I have a supervisor that i find very challenging to get along with. The boss is a Christian man, the supervisor is who i report to. I am an INFP on the meyers briggs (very touchy feely type personality), and she is about as opposite of me as you can get. I am not knocking other personalities. she is unsaved so I know I need to cut some major grace and overlook her tendencies, but I feel she sometimes doesn't like me.
i work about fifty feel from her and it is a fairly open office layout, so no one really has any privacy. she is in fairly close proximity to all of us (very small office of like 7-10 people). I have been there over a year and although i am told I am doing well, the company is truggling financially and i have never gotten a raise. I make about 24k a year and I am 44 with a BA degree.
I have to deal with her goign through my inbox on a regular basis so she can make sure i am "working", deal with her correcting me while I am on the phone and walking over to my cubicile while I am in the middle of conversations, I have had to rewrite emails numerous times, etc. Since I am always in earshot of her, I get pretty anxious during the day. I don't like how she teachers(takes twenty steps to explain things that can be explained in three steps), etc. I could go on and on but I find her a bit emotionally draining to be around. The atmospere when she is not there is more relaxed, but when she shows up, it turns into a library.
I tend to have a bit of a silly personality, but I work HARD and I am quiet a lot of the time. Sometimes during the middle of the afternoon I will make lighthearted comments like "we should all go hiking," etc. I am basically just trying to lighten the mood because the heavy serious environment is just too much for me.
She had a talk with me on friday, (she talked to all of us I think) because there were some layoffs so we will all have new duties. She wasn't mean when she said what she said, but she feels my little off the wall comments are distracting (and grant it, they probably are, because I kind of just say them randomly int he air). But it kind of hurt my feelings the way she conveyed it. She basically said, "this isn't camp, this is a business environment" she wasn't rude, but the feeling I was left with was a little bit like "no joking around here."
it is so sad because my boss is the total opposite of her. He has even teased her for how serious she is, but nothing ever changes.
I am not advocating being distracting and she does have a point, but.....I am just kind of getting increasingly unhappy at how serous the environment is. I tend to answer the phone and work with agents. Soemtimes after the professional greeting I am like "Heeeey Joanie. How are you?"
She tells me I sound like I am talking with my drinking buddies instead of answering from a company.
that bothered me.
I probably do need to tone it down a little. But I feel like she likes the environment sterile, lifeless, and joke free.
I can't work like that.
Please pray for balance in the workplace. I don't want to distract others, but I wish she would lighten up.
BTW I work very very hard and get a lot done every day. I am careful about not socializing too much.
I do have a little quarky side though, and it looks liek she doesn't appreciate it.
I am grateful I have a job, but am increasingly unhappy because I have a supervisor that i find very challenging to get along with. The boss is a Christian man, the supervisor is who i report to. I am an INFP on the meyers briggs (very touchy feely type personality), and she is about as opposite of me as you can get. I am not knocking other personalities. she is unsaved so I know I need to cut some major grace and overlook her tendencies, but I feel she sometimes doesn't like me.
i work about fifty feel from her and it is a fairly open office layout, so no one really has any privacy. she is in fairly close proximity to all of us (very small office of like 7-10 people). I have been there over a year and although i am told I am doing well, the company is truggling financially and i have never gotten a raise. I make about 24k a year and I am 44 with a BA degree.
I have to deal with her goign through my inbox on a regular basis so she can make sure i am "working", deal with her correcting me while I am on the phone and walking over to my cubicile while I am in the middle of conversations, I have had to rewrite emails numerous times, etc. Since I am always in earshot of her, I get pretty anxious during the day. I don't like how she teachers(takes twenty steps to explain things that can be explained in three steps), etc. I could go on and on but I find her a bit emotionally draining to be around. The atmospere when she is not there is more relaxed, but when she shows up, it turns into a library.
I tend to have a bit of a silly personality, but I work HARD and I am quiet a lot of the time. Sometimes during the middle of the afternoon I will make lighthearted comments like "we should all go hiking," etc. I am basically just trying to lighten the mood because the heavy serious environment is just too much for me.
She had a talk with me on friday, (she talked to all of us I think) because there were some layoffs so we will all have new duties. She wasn't mean when she said what she said, but she feels my little off the wall comments are distracting (and grant it, they probably are, because I kind of just say them randomly int he air). But it kind of hurt my feelings the way she conveyed it. She basically said, "this isn't camp, this is a business environment" she wasn't rude, but the feeling I was left with was a little bit like "no joking around here."
it is so sad because my boss is the total opposite of her. He has even teased her for how serious she is, but nothing ever changes.
I am not advocating being distracting and she does have a point, but.....I am just kind of getting increasingly unhappy at how serous the environment is. I tend to answer the phone and work with agents. Soemtimes after the professional greeting I am like "Heeeey Joanie. How are you?"
She tells me I sound like I am talking with my drinking buddies instead of answering from a company.
that bothered me.
I probably do need to tone it down a little. But I feel like she likes the environment sterile, lifeless, and joke free.
I can't work like that.
Please pray for balance in the workplace. I don't want to distract others, but I wish she would lighten up.
BTW I work very very hard and get a lot done every day. I am careful about not socializing too much.
I do have a little quarky side though, and it looks liek she doesn't appreciate it.
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