Hello all,
I am failing in my relationship with my supervisor. I should quit. I feel depressed over things.
We not fallen out; but they are not 'available'. They do not respond to my emails with suggestions after meetings. There is no personal small talk about anything outside my life as a worker - I sent them a link to a project I was working on with a major institution later on in the year outside of working hours. And nothing . Yet the manager waits until I am out of view, laughing and chatting with everyone else. I don't get it. The guy ringfenced the job for me. Went for a coffee for a catch up and said they wanted to know more about my PhD (I am working towards a masters and that was on the application form they viewed). Brings his wife into work last month, doesn't introduce her, she racks up behind the desk I work and had the good grace to laugh uncomfortably when I said 'Hi, are you a new colleague?!') Why is it so difficult to get any basic courtesy and respect as an individual when we tread the same bit of carpet and see people more than our partners at home? He saw I had a couple of accidents at work and despite managing a building unsupervised for four months suggested that I needed to work together with him more. Didn't offer to help on site with anything. Any advice because I am trying to look smart and presentable, smile - but feel extremely lonely and isolated at work.