Am I being a needy drama queen about this?
I've just taken on some new freelance work. The first paid work I've done in a while, as I'm also studying. The work is exactly the kind of thing I went back into education to be qualified to do. I think I have a good working relationship with the person who hired me (the CEO).
On a call last week I and another person found out that our focus needed to shift to a new priority (something thay had been left undone because the person who would normally cover it was on compassionate leave). This happens a lot, particularly in the sector. It's not was I was hired ro do but another good opportunity to prove my ability, learn more, and more paid work. All fine.
So I submitted my first invoice at the end of last week and along with that wrote up what I'd been working on into a 12 page business case and sent it over to the CEO with an email, basically saying I thought it would be useful to get my work so for on x project down on paper before we park it for a bit. Let me know what you think". I've been paid, no probs there. But the work itself has not been acknowledged.
Obviously they're busy and not there to tend to my (somewhat fragile) ego. But would you expect any response by a week later? If I was managing a new freelance person, I would at least send a holding email to say "thanks for this, super busy, not going to have a chance to look at this for a bit but I will".
Are they a) just busy doing important stuff b) thinking I'm crap or c) possibly the kind of boss that is a bit flighty and switches focus so often that you can't possibly keep up (I've worked for someone like this before and it was a nightmare. 3 months of work that at the time was the most urgent thing in the world was often ditched without a word and I'd be expected to move onto the next thing, never to see that work get an outing again. It was a really difficult place to work, there was no planning, communication or leadership, so I'm maybe a bit prickly about finding myself in this situation again)?
Feel free to kick me into touch if needed but maybe be gentle if you can. Ta.