Hi, am looking for advice as I'm feeling quite upset at the moment.
Next week is due to be very busy at work and I have been asked to manage a huge workload on my own. The rest of the people in my department are not doing very much and I feel that the workload has not been spread out very evenly.
I emailed my head of department today clarifying a few things about next week and also asking if it was possible to have an extra person working with me for some of the day - this would not usually be a problem in my line of work.
I received a very rude, nasty email back. My head of department made the assumption that I'm stupid and can't follow instructions (she said something like "if you'd actually read the timetable I sent you last week, you'd know this already" and her whole tone was aggressive.)
I am quite angry and upset because in this email, she has spoken down to me like I'm a child and the whole tone is rude. I sent her a polite email with a few queries and I got this in return. I don't even want to go in tomorrow because she's so nasty. She is well known for being rude to people and not having good people skills but this doesn't excuse it.
I don't know what to do now. Should I email back, raise it with her tomorrow or just ignore it?