Work griping

[mugglechump]

I'll start by saying that, on a personal level, I like my boss. She's a nice woman, even if she is a bit uptight. As a supervisor, though, she's driving me insane.

Tiffany has a bad habit of assuming that the project controllers that work for her are 'wrong', whether she's verified that we actually are or not, and sharing that opinion freely with us, the other managers, and other departments that we work closely with. Now, sometimes we have made an error, and once in awhile we've made large errors, but sometimes we haven't been wrong at all - she has.

A couple of examples:

Email I received from her Wednesday -
Hi Kate,
I really really appreciate you taking care of this!! This sounds like a new task order, not an addition to an existing task order, right? Will it be under the suchandsuch Contract?

This proposal apparently slipped through the cracks…as neither Jeff nor I knew anything about it. I just wanted to caution you: if you are ever tasked with any new work from anyone other than Jeff and/or I, you will need to let us know immediately. Some PM’s have a tendency to go directly to the PCs in order to delegate new work, and this often this leaves Jeff/I out of the loop. But again, I appreciate you handling this!

I should also mention that before sending this, Tiff called Becky (who had transitioned some of her contracts to me) and asked why I hadn't informed Tiffany about this new work. A) Becky isn't my babysitter, she's my co-worker. This new task order was never part of her workload, so why would she have any information on it? B) Tiffany had assigned this new task order to me herself - 3 weeks ago. I still have the email. Her oversight is not my fault.

Email I received from her this morning -
Kate,
The version at the top level under the TO#5055 folder is wrong, do not use this version going forward. Use the version that you archived in the P6. Can this bad version be deleted..it is very confusing?

Literally, that is all the information she gave me. No explanation of what was wrong, just that it should be deleted. I had already made some changes in the file in question, and if I deleted it I would have to recreate all the work I'd done. If you're going to ask me to spend that kind of time re-doing something, at least have the courtesy to tell me why you think the file is incorrect! In this case, I actually had made a minor error, and it was good that she caught it, but it really didn't necessitate deleting the entire file. A couple quick keystrokes, and it was fixed. In order to do this, though, I had to know what the problem was. How am I supposed to learn from mistakes if I don't know what I've done that wasn't correct? And why does she assume I'll take her word as gospel?

I am not used to being micro-managed. My old office misses me. I miss them. I just don't want to make that commute anymore. So, I'm stuck here for awhile. *headdesk*