I was assigned my 6th supervisor in the last year three weeks ago (my original supervisor stepped down, and then we went through a massive reorganization and a few people like myself have been moved from supervisor to supervisor) and she is driving me crazy; the last two supervisors I had for four months each were great and very supportive, but this one is the complete opposite. So what has me up in arms is that I feel like she is taking away the ability to my job with her crazy control freak tendencies. I work in insurance and my job is to mange people's medical and monetary benefits when they need insurance and then settle their cases when they essentially no longer need the insurance; and we are in the middle of a huge settlement/closing case project right now so I finally settled two cases that I basically had for their entire life span of 4+ yrs. that had the potential for lots of money to still be paid out on them, plus another case that was disputed, and then a small case that just needed to be settled. All of the cases that were settled were in my authority range but I have to send my settlement papers to my supervisor even though I have been doing this job for 14 yrs. and I get the second set of eyes (my last supervisor said I didn't have to do this as I had enough experience and no
mistakes were made), but on Thursday evening she reviews these files and emails me that "my papers have problems and she is not releasing them and we can talk about them on Saturday if I come in for overtime or on Tuesday (Monday is my regular day off....I work a 9/80 schedule)" and her regular day off is Friday (she works 4/10s) so I decide to come in at 6:30 for overtime (yesterday) so we can talk about the settlement papers and she proceeds to tell me that "my papers have problems, my cases have problems, my estimates are wrong and my case plans are wrong; and this is overtime and we can't discuss it now so we will discuss it on Tuesday morning." When I hear this I am livid because I didn't have to come in for overtime as I am pretty caught up on my work and fully participating in the closing/settlement project my office is having right now (I have settled 4 cases in the first half of this month (it takes about 4-6 weeks to settle do these started before she was my supervisor) and closed 15 files with another 5-10 ready to close before the project ends in 10/6) but came in so I my papers would go out on Monday vs. Tuesday or Wednesday and because I just wanted to get the conversation over with. I ended up staying for 3/1/2 hours and getting some settlement/closing work done, but now I am beyond nervous about this meeting on Tuesday and I feel like she is going to try to strip me of all settlement authority (I highly doubt she can, but if she tries then I will have to go to the union or her supervisor and I am really trying to stay under the radar and just do my job) because she is essentially treating me like a new employee because I am not doing my job her way (which everyone knows is very particular and she has three members on our team who are her favorites and aren't subject to her over controlling issues). I get that suggestions could be good, but with one suggestion of hers I did try and use I came up with a settlement range of $3500 between the low range and high range, which equals zero wiggle room in my opinion (I can still change it, but if I play by her rules I am stuck with nothing). Before all of this went down I was really happy with my job and imho am having my best year numbers and confidence wise in about 6 years but now I am back to being nervous wreck (it is 6:15 am on a Sunday and I should be sleeping) and am afraid of being combative in our meeting on Tuesday when she criticizes my work.
Thank you so much for reading and if you can't offer me any help just please send me some good vibes in Tuesday morning.
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