With lack of a better place to post it, and as I've talked about it before, here is the latest installment of my work drama:
Today, in our weekly meeting, my boss informed me that while my task-performance and writing is excellent, my relationship development skills are leading me on the path to failure in life/my career. I am also too quick to complete tasks and despite the good end result, it makes it appear that I put no thought into it. What, wut?
She sat me down and had a long talk with me about how my strong personality, clear sense of my opinions, and tendency to tackle problems head on can be a huge turn off and that I am weak at cultivating good relationships. I have never in my life had someone tell me I suck at being nice/friendly. It was extremely depressing.
I will, of course, watch how I act even more than I already thought I was. What I took from this is that I need to make it a point to act fake and walk on eggshells, or I will offend someone