I have just been sent an email by mistake,

[iwantitalltobenormal]

AIBU to be massivley hurt and pissed off from the email I have just read which was sent to me by mistake?

at the begining of this year, I offered to do a monthly blog for our small team, so other departments are more aware of what we do internally - (manager thought it was a great idea ) baring in mind this was my first attempt at this , and by no means a mandatory task , I did it all on a power point presentation , I also do not claim to be a professional blog writer and I really enjoyed doing it, and putting it together, I sent it to my manager back in March, It took a little while due to also carrying out my day to day job.

fast forward to today ( baring in mind I had no response or feedback on my blog, whether it be positive criticism or any type of feedback) someone has unfortunately sent me a long email trail between my line manager to his line manager slating my work on the blog I had done and slating how unprofessional it the content is - but in a really distasteful way , and nasty.

I feel hurt, upset and belittled.

[ABlackRussian]

If only people were more upfront!

OP, forward the email on to your manager, and their manager and ask why this wasn't fed back to you.

[SummerDayWinterEvenings]

@AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken

This happened to me once too.
I had been working in a school before resigning. About 6 months after I quit, I was still upset by how I was treated by my line-manager. The role I was in had never had anyone stay in it for longer than a year because the line manger was so awful. I decided the school should know about her behaviour because it’s a fantastic school and the rest of the staff were amazing so they deserve to have long standing staff members. In addition, some of her actions went beyond work-place bullying and more into the realm of policy breaches.
I composed a really polite email. It was concise. It listed a few specific examples of her behaviour with witnesses named. One was that she admonished me for reporting a safeguarding issue to the safeguarding officer without asking her permission. This is a huge breach of school safeguarding policy.
Anyway, long story short, I received a reply the next day from the head which was supposed to go to his secretary saying
“What are we doing with this? A standard “thanks for the info email” and then delete?”
He then followed up with a grovelling email asking to speak to me on the phone. I didn’t bother. I already knew what he thought of my complaints.
I felt sick when I got it. I felt sick for about a week after.
I got over it though. You will get over it too. People can be shit xx

I would have forwarded it to the Chair of Governors and then the CC or Academy Trust.

[squiglet111]

I'd kind of want to reply all and include all staff in the message saying that as A and B have so many opinions on how it should be done they should do it themselves as they apparently know how to do a blog correctly.

So basically expose them. Jealous pricks

[AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken]

SummerDayWinterEvenings

I absolutely should have. I contacted our city council safeguarding team and they didn’t have much advice other than to speak to the head. By that point, I’d lost my confidence and thought everyone was just viewing me as a vindictive ex employee.

[CrazyTimesAreOccurring]

Any update @iwantitalltobenormal?

[Annonymiss123]

How did you deal with this @iwantitalltobenormal?

[GisAFag]

Manager could be advising your line manager that you're work requires improvement. The person who sent you the email may have realised and told your manager what they did. I wouldn't say anything about the email..

You could speak to line manager and say.. I'm not sure if blog I'm writing is working, I feel I need help so I can improve it. Can you give me advice.

We all need help and guidance, and we all have to remember that managers are only doing their job and they have to confront tricky situations.

[roking]

Hope you are ok OP.

Similar thing happened in my work. One of the directors was replying to an application from a colleague about a promotion and move to a new department. The colleagues manager had sent the application for consideration to all directors, HR and the head of the department's that would be involved in the move. One director replied to all, clearly not checking and thinking it was only his management mates that were in the email chain, not realising that the person who had made the application and the Head of HR were cc'd in, he had stated all the reasons why he didn't think the colleague was the right person for the job. some of the reasons were extremely hurtful and very petty. None based on her actual work or experience and some based on her appearance and generally making a fool of her 😔

When he realised what he done, he tried to make out his laptop had been stolen and someone else had written it 🙄🙄 lies

The company tried to sack him, but the owner thinks the sun shines out of his backside and nothing at all happened to him! Colleague ended up quitting. We lost a very valued member of the team and the arsehole director is still swanning round the place like a dog with 2 dicks. No one has any respect for him at all. Just last week he sent another email (replied to all again 🙄) where he was being extremely condescending and referred to our (excellent) HR Manager as a junior member of staff who doesn't know what she's talking about. No one is expecting anything to get done about it