I'm starting to hate this project. This tactless, narrow-minded, ambitious, ill-mannered couterpart of mine is getting into my neeeervessss..!! He sees nothing but faults. He does nothing but play crybaby to his superiors. And with these, I and my team appear on the bad slate. Don't get me wrong, I have no problems when I am corrected. Criticisms are always welcome as long as they are humanly and professionally laid out and escalated. But imagine situations like these happening to you...
Situation #1:
Your counterpart asks you how long you can complete one task. You give a reasonable estimate. The reply? "No, that's not possible. We already committed to the customer to finish everthing on this date..." blah blah.
Huh? What's the point of asking my estimate then? And you didn't even ask me first if the timing is feasible before committing to the customer!
Situation #2:
Your counterpart sends you an e-mail asking for your plan/strategy to complete a task on a specified time frame. You responded with a request to inform you whether the plan was sufficient or if it needs to be ironed out. The reply? NONE. Instead, he shows out your plan to his superiors/mentors indicating he totally disagrees with you and asked them to tell you to change the plan totally according to what he wanted.
Double huh?? Why ask me for a plan in the first place if you already have something in mind? It's not even you who will execute the plan! I will!
Situation #3:
You filed for a few days leave. Unexpectedly, a very urgent task came in those days during your absence. Your whole team was not available as this time was a planned 'idle week' for the group, thus everyone was on vacation and no one can perform the task. When you came back to work, you hear some information that your counterpart was very angry why you were absent and because of that, they had to do the task for you.
Ok, refresh me again what planned holidays are for? And I need to ask Mr. Webster what "unexpected" means... just in case I understand it bad.
Situation #4:
It was time to submit all reports. After sending out all the necessary documents, you get a reply from your counterpart asking you why you didn't retest one item. You replied with an evidence, attaching an old mail of his stating there was no need to retest. He replied in defense. You received another question why you didn't test some items in the intermediate softwares. My answer? See Situation #3. It was him who tested it.
Geez...
Now tell me, am I really that bad? Stupid? Or am I just stressed?
Hahay... I want to quit now.
2 thoughts:
Oh.. been there, done that... oopps still hurdling same situations pa diay... and a lot more other issues than stated...
but sometimes Ms.Teacup, either i become numb or apathetic already, i just allow it to set in for a few minutes to an hour or so, then continue... it can get really frustrating at times but i guess some people do exist just to get the shit out of us! :P haha!
Yeah, that's right.. Although I don't really take all those personally. But sometimes it can get discouraging. =(
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