This is quite long but I want to make sure I communicate clearly: I have been having problems with this woman at my job since I started. Unfortunately, she is the middle man between my lab and others so I have to communicate with her. She always makes subtle condescending comments and adds unnecessary reminders about how to do my job. I send out blood samples from a hospital to an outside lab for testing. Today was the breaking point for me. If there is a problem with a sample I sent out, whatever it may be (ex. wrong temperature, exceeding stability, the order did not transmit properly) we have a shared Excel file with problems that arise in the other labs that I have to fix. We are not aware of laboratory problems unless they are on this excel sheet. Recently, I did an audit of incomplete samples and found a handful from weeks ago. I emailed her to ask what happened aka why they were not on the excel file. She said “it was something you must have missed on your end” even though they should have been entered on the excel file like similar problems we had before. Then sent the entire thread to my supervisor saying “can you please explain to her how our process works?”. When my supervisor called, he said “she didn’t meant it that way, she was just saying it wasn’t something on her side. She’s actually really cool and really good at her job.” To me, there is no other interpretation of what she said other than blaming me for something I had no control over, then pulling my supervisor in just to call me incompetent/stupid. Do I have any leg to stand on, especially since she has made similar comments to me (and my other coworkers) for the 6 months I have worked here? Or is what she said truly just “up to interpretation“?
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u/AbsolutelyScrummy — 13 days ago