Warning, this is loooooooong!
I'm doing my appraisal form at home today (snow day for DD's school). I have issues with my immediate line manager and I'm trying to think of a way to put it professionally so I don't sound like I'm just whingeing, iysiwm.
Background:
I do 3 days a week at work. Due to changes in systems etc, one of the processes I run has now gone from being a 1-day job to a 2 day one. My other regular task has also increased in time due to regulatory issues. Consequently I've been very time-pressured and other stuff has fallen a bit by the wayside. I have a new line manager and he is a twunt very impatient person who makes no secret of the fact that he thinks it's all my fault and has said that I need to go away and think about the way I work in order to give myself more time to do other stuff. He doesn't seem to get that I am constrained by the systems, no matter how many times I explain to him the limits of what we can/can't do at various times.
He has a very patronising manner and no sense of humour whatsoever. He treats me like I'm thick and sighs when I ask him to explain stuff (I think we definitely have communication issues, as quite often it seems I'm explaining an issue, he's replying like I've asked him a question, generally about something completely different, then saying 'ah, but you don't understand xyz' about the very thing I'm trying to tell him about! I do not get on with him (!), nevertheless I endeavour to be professional with him and would not slack off simply because I don't like him, as I consider myself a conscientious person.
However, over the last year I feel like he's systematically destroyed my confidence in my own abilities - he micro-manages my every move and will expect me to be a mind-reader over stuff that got communicated on days I'm not there (and not passed on to me). Before I went on M/L I got consistently good/outstanding appraisals every year (I've been there 20 years and have never had an issue before)but half the time he acts like I'm a waste of space, half the time he piles work on me then gets pissed off when I have to leave to pick DD up from school.
He has brought me to tears in the office more than once.
I generally end up working at least an hour a day more than my official hours and have come in on non-working days to help meet deadlines, but I get no credit for it. In fact, when I asked if I could leave early (by 2 hours) to see DD's nativity, his immediate reaction was 'how will you make up the hours then?' - I was so pissed off with him over that and felt so unappreciated... and now I'm sounding whiny again!
Anyway, we have a section on our appraisal for 'difficulties', I have written a little about the time pressures, what I want to say is:
I have communication difficulties with my line manager and feel he does not value my contribution to the department.
Despite raising the issue of time pressures with management earlier in the year it seems to have become 'my' problem and I feel very unsupported.
But that to me sounds rather whiny and 'poor me', also that I have a massive problem with him personally (which I probably do, but what's the best way to say this?)
Is there any way of putting it better?
And if you made it to the end of that, thank you!