I left for lunch early to drive five miles away to an abandoned parking lot so that I could cry about an email I received... this week has been fantastic.

If all you wanted to do was cry, you could've done it in your cubicle or in the rest room.

On a serious note, what happened?

It must have been one of those ugly cries, like "I need to drive 5 miles away on my lunch break" ugly.

But please, what happened?

What was the email?

@smb26 @filthyranter @wwat @AlgoRythm @dudeking @asgs @irene

Basically I implemented a new asset management system for my company and have built it and the processes from the ground up. I’ve been PM, written policy, and helped set up servers.

I sent out an email to our asset managers to remind them of the upcoming deadline to have things put into the system and assigned to people and in it I said that per our fiscal unit we would be doing yearly inventory. We made that decision in December and though we didn’t write that policy (that would be up to fiscal, not me) it was generally accepted that that’s what we’d be doing.

Our fiscal director responded to the email where she had hi-lighted the line that said per fiscal we’ll be doing inventory yearly and she said “I’m confused about where this is coming from??? In the future you need to run all communications about this past fiscal because we own this process, not you. You don’t get to make these decisions.”

@Tawzer normally I wouldn’t have been super upset but this is the second fucking time I’ve been worked beyond my capacity (I’m an entry level IT generalist), and gotten in trouble about it. I’ve been exhausted about my job and this just broke me down far enough that it finally came out as ugly crying in a parking lot.

I took today off as a mental health day and I forwarded the email to my supervisor to handle because I needed a higher up to explain that I did everything I was supposed to. Thankfully he agreed that was the best thing to do and he went and spoke with fiscal director about it.

I’m in a much better place today and i can recognize that I overreacted, I think I was just so done at that point that I couldn’t handle it anymore. Tomorrow I’m meeting with a senior coworker who I trust and we’re going to talk about how to handle it without freaking out lol

Thank you all for your comments though

@Tawzer Business world is rough.

I'm starting in an asset management position soon. Yay

@Tawzer glad to hear you’re doing better.
I wouldn’t worry about how you reacted given you reflected and noted it was due to being overworked. In those scenarios it’s pretty normal for people to get emotional. Whether that is via bursting into rage or crying.

IMO their response to your email was really unprofessional as well. It was condescending and uncalled for. People who act like that shouldn’t even be in such positions to begin with because their poor attitude leads to poor communication. Someone on their team probably didn’t loop them in on the change because they knew they’d be a dick about it.

@Tawzer that sucks but honestly your fiscal director probably just forgot, and feels threatened by someone with your work ethic (because it’s a stronger work ethic than they have)