So my PMP class is drawing to a close (last day is May 7!) and our project manager lady is apparently the type that turns into a complete and total bitch when she’s stressed out. In the past, I would probably do what I could to appease her and just deal with her until the class was over. Now, not so much. My tolerance for obnoxious people has decreased considerably.

Instead I’ve spent the last 24 hours in a virtual cat fight with this woman who has somehow been put in charge of compiling several Word documents together to form a master plan, but has no knowledge of Word whatsoever and thinks that she is the only one who can format the document. I spent 4 hours updating her document to properly use headers and utilize the dynamic table of contents feature since we were compiling a ton of documents, and she didn’t like the formatting so she threw away all of my work and replaced it with her own, manually created table of contents (which now has to be manually updated any time additional text is added that creates a page shift). That was just the tip of the iceberg, and now she’s decided to publicly blame me for the project being “late” (it’s due tomorrow and she apparently has an anuerism at the idea of printing a document the day that it’s due). Never mind that I’ve done more work than everyone else on this project throughout the entire semester. She’s cranky so now I’m the one who isn’t working hard.

Seriously, I don’t know what it is about me that seems to attract rude, bitchy, or otherwise unsavory attitudes lately. I don’t think I’m the type that provokes people into being argumentative; I still try to avoid conflict whenever possible. Really the only thing that’s changed is my response – instead of rolling over, I fight back. I had thought that was a good thing, but I’ve spent the last day furious beyond measure, and I’m not sure that the ability to stand up and respond to temperamental behavior is worth the toll it takes on my sanity.