Am I being sensitive or is my Manager out of line?

[Dinoswearunderpants]

For the past few months I've been getting negative feedback from my Manager regarding grammar, past/present tense and writing the wrong words.

For context, the role was sold to me as 5-10% reporting writing (something I said I do not have extensive experience but I was assured I would be trained up) however it is now 95% of my role.

My Manager pulls up every little error I make. It has really knocked my confidence. I know I am not stupid so I did some research as to why I might be having these issues and after completing a comprehensive (and expensive) assessment, I have been diagnosed with dyslexia.

I am still trying to find tools that can help me and one is dictate. I recently completing my first report using this and I had one word incorrect twice through the three page document (it wrote cause instead of calls).

My Manager has wrote a side note saying I need to ensure I use read aloud as clearly dictate will not always be correct. I do use read aloud but I still missed it (I do have a feeling I may have ADHA as my attention span is limited but cannot afford this assessment).

We're only a small team of five and I decided to look at other peoples reports to see what feedback they get and my Manager makes amendments to their reports (similar grammar, missing words etc) however never puts the passive aggressive comments that I get.

In the past he has wrote comments like "I am not an English teacher, you should know these things" (it was that comment that prompted my assessment).

It is so clear I am being treated differently. HR have been involved to help with making 'reasonable adjustments' but it feels like my Manager things having things like dictate and read aloud in place with remove every possible error.

I feel like these errors are so meniscal however he is constantly pulling me up on it. Do I just suck it up and try even harder than I am or is it possible that he is being unfair?

I don't really want to leave as I work part time and the flexibility works well for my home life. I'm just so fed up of feeling stupid.

You have my sympathy. The guy I work for is extremely good at his job and a very hard worker. He’s had to work a lot harder than many other people to get to where he is today. I really hope you find a solution.

Hi @Dinoswearunderpants, I am not sure whether you want any errors that you made in your opening post here pointing out or not, but I will do so with an error you made at least twice, because it may seem like a small mistake to you, but it really does sound quite bad when read aloud. You wrote:

"My manager has wrote a side note saying I need to ensure I use read aloud as clearly dictate will not always be correct."

If you read (present tense) the sentence I just quoted, aloud to yourself, does it sound fine to you, or does any of it sound a bit strange?

As you obviously know, the word 'wrote' is the past tense of the verb 'to write', but, so is the word 'written'. Hopefully, I can explain clearly enough why you chose the wrong word twice in your OP.

The mistake you made in the quoted sentence above, was that you added a 'has' after 'manager' and before 'wrote'. If you had just said:

"My manager wrote a side note saying ..."

that would have been fine, but unfortunately, as you put "My manager has" then your next word needed to be 'written' not 'wrote':

"My manager has written a note saying I need to ensure I use 'read aloud' as 'clearly dictate' will not always be correct".

Do the two revised sentences above make any sense to you OP, and can you hear the difference between them and your original sentence?

I am going to apologise now for any grammatical mistakes I have made here, as "sod's law" says I am bound to have done so!!