Last night I stayed an hour late to work on The Prez’s presentation. When I was typing up his pages I was unaware that his admin was working on the MAIN presentation to which the Prez’s pages were being added. So at 4:45 p.m. he came to me with edits to pages that I had not typed up and had never seen.
So I did a network search and finally found the admin’s main presentation. Upon flipping through it to add in the Prez’s new pages I noticed a lot of inconsistencies that just drive me nuts (font sizes, graphic placements, non-aligned titles, etc.). So after inserted his new slides I went through the entire presentation and fixed all that stuff. There was no way I could let that stuff slide by since this meeting will be attended by every single employee at this office. After emailing the new version to the admin for this morning, I left the office at 6:15 p.m. for home. About halfway home I realized that I had neglected to tell her about one edit that I did NOT do because I needed clarification.
This morning after I got in I went over and told her about the one edit that I didn’t do, and she seemed kind of ticked off at me – as though she was angry that I messed around in her presentation. Now, that could stem from two things:
1) Her boss had ME type up his pages instead of giving it to her, his admin.
2) She didn’t like that I went into “her” presentation and made cosmetic changes.
Either way, she didn’t seem happy with me. Which I don’t get, because last night when I emailed her the presentation and told her I made tweaks to the formatting, it’s not like I cc:d The Prez on it to make her look bad. :confused:
Ooooo, don’t piss off the wrong people. I think that maybe you should have mentioned to her that the presentation could use some edits. Then you could have offered to make them for her. I think she was probably annoyed that you went into her presentation and made changes. You’re new and she might have the issue of “that new girl is trying to take my job”.
Well first of all I HAD to go in and make changes – she was gone for the day and her boss wanted the edits done. :sarcastic:
People are territorial about their work.
Jen, I understand that. But her boss was asking me to make those changes after she was gone of the day. I just saw the admin in the lunch room and asked her if she was upset that I went into her file. She said, “No, I’m mad at The Prez. He shouldn’t have had you do that.”
So of course that means that TECHNICALLY she WAS mad at me for messing with her file. But she’s blaming it on her boss.
:drama: