I started a new job a few months ago, and it is the kind of job where accuracy and being meticulous is important. However, I am finding the volume of negative feedback and criticism from my manager to be excessive. It has hugely impacted my confidence, and I am not sure if I am just bad at the job or whether their criticisms are excessive and overly pedantic.
We have detailed SOPs to follow that my manager developed herself as she has been at the company for years, and I try my best to follow them. However, often times I will do something wrong and receive an email telling me off for it, but as it isn't mentioned in the SOP I had no idea I had done anything wrong. All my emails to colleagues get scrutinised, and I'll be told that I had forgotten to include something (when usually I have - either earlier in the email chain, or directly in files they are reviewing). They will pick up on minor things and send me a long email several times a week with multiple bullet points of things I have done wrong. Sometimes it things like telling me that a font colour or layout I have chosen is wrong, even though she uses a different type of Microsoft Office which makes things looking different for her than they do me. Other times it's minor things that are 'the way things have always been done' like the shade of yellow used to highlight our internal-only documents. She made me go through and redo them all so they were the same shade of yellow that she uses. My work is neat and clear, and I do proofread but part of being human is sometimes there may be an occasional typo in my work, which she will pick up and then send an email telling me to make sure I proofread in future as if my work is littered with mistakes. However, when I look at her work I notice typos quite often, so I feel like I'm held to higher standards than she gives herself.
I am constantly adding my manager's comments to a long list of things to remind myself not to do in the future, and I respond telling her that I will keep her feedback in mind for future reference. However, it seems excessive and like she has no trust in me to do anything right.
Does this sound like micromanagement, or just that I am not good enough?