so pissed off and worried about meeting tomorrow at 9am

[Sarah510]

so we have a big work meeting tomorrow. I've done loads for it, data, spreadsheets, etc. But my team leader refused to check it (although yesterday she said she wanted to go through it to check the calculations, which I was glad about cos it's easy to make a mistake). So she 'wasn't available' all day today, there was a short meeting on teams around 5pm and she was at it too, so I tried to catch her after it, but she left really quick, and when I emailed her saying I was here, did she want to check stuff with me, she replied to say I was to 'forget about it'. Am so pissed off. Feel like she's going to probably throw me under the bus tomorrow morning if she does check it and find any errors, or else, if anyone else finds errors, I will be shown up in front of everyone. So I'm sat here going through it all one more time. I think it's really mean of her not to even talk to me. Don't know what I've done except work my ass off.

Go into options & add a huge capital letters watermark across each worksheet page saying 'DRAFT'. If anyone queries it, say it 'it's a discussion document & obviously it needs a Manager sense check''. Can you tell I used to get my team out of deep doo doo on daily basis....

Good luck today!!

It sounds like TL raised a possible issue (far too late), and another colleague raised a possible issue in the meeting... and they were both wrong.

Your original work was right. You can feel pretty good about that.

It's a crappy situation but ready assured she's come out of it looking worse that you. Two thoughts you may want to consider for the future, but well done for getting this one correct!

1. Book time in advance with her for the next time you have to do this, so you have quality time with her to review it and her diary isn't already full, so you don't get as stressed
2. It seems like you got very panicky. Mistakes happen, and humans are just human. It's ok to apologise and correct things

Anyway, I still think she is quite sneaky. If she wants to work early, fine, I'm more a night owl, but I think her communication is very poor. If she had just said to me last night, look I'm tired out, I haven't had time, lets meet early in the morn.

Gosh, OP it sounds awfully stressful. Love the watermark idea upthread.

If your team is all working from home you really need to have some agreement on core working times though. If my boss emailed me at 7am to do a lot of work for a meeting at 8 i'd have been really very cross indeed, whereas at anything up to, say, 6pm the day before would be ok. (annoying but ok).

But now you know you don't need to second guess yourself, you only need your TL to do her bloody job. The good thing is that with WFH you get a lovely paper trail.

Think you need to tell her how you feel once this is over - or at least how her reactions made you feel. She might just be really busy and not realise how stressed you are.