It has been quite tough at work this week. My teammates and I seem to have make mistakes everyday since Monday. Timeline, priorities, lunch hours, etc etc have been pointed out to us. NO JOKE. And each comments made by the manager seem personal. For example, we went out for lunch and came back in 1.5 hours and we were sounded for being late without prior notification. But in our defense, we were not the only one late. There have been many occasions where others came in late more than we did. Of course we did not say anything because WE HAVE LEARNT when this happens, the best defense is to keep quite and say alright, I understood and sorry. Yes that was my exact word when our boss gave us a piece of her mind.

And the day before, one of us were sounded for not having proper project management causing ME to stay over and do work. I voiced out saying that I actually enjoyed doing what I did and was told that I am a hypocrite because I said I didn't want to do it in the beginning of our discussion. I wanted to tell her that I said that because I thought I was not supposed to do it but..never mind. I felt like I will only make the situation worse, especially to my teammate if I argue further so I can only replied with a poker face.

The moral of the story through this two incidents is, something you just need to back away and keep quiet in order to win an argument with your boss. Being defensive will only make the matter worse (even if YOU ARE RIGHT) because every single thing that you say will be treated as excuses.

Tomorrow is the last day of the week and I hope that I can go through that peacefully without any surprises. And I can feel that my teammate is sort of distancing away from me ever since the WIP meeting. I sincerely hope that she feels better soon and we will be able to build our rapport at work again.