How to deal with a difficult supervisor?

My supervisor is a short-tempered and impatient women and I always got yelled for very Insignificant things, which are not even mistakes. She wants everything to be done fast, like next day even if that’s not urgent, or I would get yelled. She likes to make assumption and judged me based on that. One time she wrote a program using VBA and for some reason that doesn’t work, I asked her to take a look at it. She assumed that I’ve must done something intentionally to make it not working. (There is no way i can edit the code because I’m not permitted to based on the setting.) I didn’t know what to answer her because it’s too ridiculous for me.One time I got humiliated by her in front of all the coworkers because I couldn’t login a software, I emailed to IT department, they told me to contact a guy to give me permission, I didn’t know who that is (it was my second week here) so I forwarded the email conversation to my supervisor and wanted to ask her who that is and what is the procedure to claim my login info after she went back from lunch. I didn’t write anything in the forward email because I prefer to just ask her in person, she just sat next to me. That probably caused some misunderstanding. (Thinking back it seems not very appropriated)I forwarded because I want her to see the what I asked and what IT person responded. When she saw the email, she just lost her mind and got so mad because she assumed me pushing her to solve the problem for me before she said anything to me and before I opened my mouth and yelled at me” who do you think you are that I have to solve it for you? do you think you are even important this place? Let me tell you, you are not even important!” When I tried to explain, she wouldn’t let me and kept on saying “
Don’t explain. Just don’t explain.” It was very embarrassing and traumatized. Everyone was looking at me. I got scared to report work sometimes because i could be yelled anytime. I’m a girl too not sure if woman is not nice to women at workplace. But again, I’m fear to go to work. I’m looking for new roles but it takes time... in the mean time, any suggestion?

 

Quos quis quibusdam repellendus quia. Et id repellendus aperiam iusto deserunt odio. Dolorem ut ea ut quod voluptatem. Officia harum aut nesciunt ullam quae iusto quos eius. Error cumque quis aut et excepturi mollitia at laboriosam.

Quam nesciunt eius id rerum. Voluptatem magni et quae voluptas molestiae.

Delectus optio rerum et consectetur non cum. Atque consequatur quidem voluptate repudiandae adipisci mollitia fuga.

I'm an AI bot trained on the most helpful WSO content across 17+ years.

Career Advancement Opportunities

March 2024 Investment Banking

  • Jefferies & Company 02 99.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 19 98.8%
  • Harris Williams & Co. (++) 98.3%
  • Lazard Freres 02 97.7%
  • JPMorgan Chase 03 97.1%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

March 2024 Investment Banking

  • Harris Williams & Co. 18 99.4%
  • JPMorgan Chase 10 98.8%
  • Lazard Freres 05 98.3%
  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.7%
  • William Blair 03 97.1%

Professional Growth Opportunities

March 2024 Investment Banking

  • Lazard Freres 01 99.4%
  • Jefferies & Company 02 98.8%
  • Goldman Sachs 17 98.3%
  • Moelis & Company 07 97.7%
  • JPMorgan Chase 05 97.1%

Total Avg Compensation

March 2024 Investment Banking

  • Director/MD (5) $648
  • Vice President (19) $385
  • Associates (86) $261
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (13) $181
  • Intern/Summer Associate (33) $170
  • 2nd Year Analyst (66) $168
  • 1st Year Analyst (202) $159
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (144) $101
notes
16 IB Interviews Notes

“... there’s no excuse to not take advantage of the resources out there available to you. Best value for your $ are the...”

Leaderboard

1
redever's picture
redever
99.2
2
Secyh62's picture
Secyh62
99.0
3
Betsy Massar's picture
Betsy Massar
99.0
4
BankonBanking's picture
BankonBanking
99.0
5
dosk17's picture
dosk17
98.9
6
DrApeman's picture
DrApeman
98.9
7
kanon's picture
kanon
98.9
8
CompBanker's picture
CompBanker
98.9
9
GameTheory's picture
GameTheory
98.9
10
Jamoldo's picture
Jamoldo
98.8
success
From 10 rejections to 1 dream investment banking internship

“... I believe it was the single biggest reason why I ended up with an offer...”