Today I had to attend (virtually) a sort of governance meeting which my senior manager was also attending. I was told before by my own manager he is quite ‘eccentric’. I had a 5 minute section which was last on the agenda and talked over a slide I had prepared. The manager had made reference half way through the meeting to being ahead of schedule and ‘getting time back’. I was about 3 minutes in to my part and he interrupted and said he was ‘touching cloth’ and was going to have to leave the meeting, he just exited the call. Most of the others on there laughed and I wrapped up my section.
I felt quite humiliated after that he left when I was mid sentence and didn’t even say sorry for leaving early. My manager afterwards said not to worry and that is just his personality and I shouldn’t over think it.
It’s still on my mind though. Do I just need to accept that he’s the senior manager and can do what he wants?