I lost my job :-(

Well yes, I guess it's still true of me- can't massage people's egos! Atleast that's what I think went wrong with this one, and here's the story in all its glory:-

A friend recommends me to her boss- I meet him- I like the work- he likes my background- we decide to work together. Except I have to work with this who appeared to be a sweet woman from Hyderabad! So I am new to the fashion/export industry and yet I put in days and night to achieve a herculean task- of writing a whole section without any help that was promised me t start with. To top it all, the woman in question doesn't want to talk or have any kind of verbal communication.

I go to Kerala, having accomplished a big chunk of the ebook I am writing, with the promise that she would go through it and give me specific corrections. So what happens when I get back? A note saying twenty things are wrong. But do I get a specific areas where those twnety things might be lacking? No. I just have to rewrite the whole document and send it? No reply to this either!

So I call her and try and find out what's happening. Just bunk all the separate documents into one and it should be fine comes the reply. So I wait , starting work on the following documents and believe my surprise when I get a mail so caustic, I havent ever laid eyes upon. Some supercillious bitch casting aspersions on my competence. Well, that's one thing she shouldn't have done- because the place where I start working from is not a state of super confidence but actually quite the opposite. I do not believe I know anything on the subject which makes me put all that I have in just getting my fact straight- the one thing I never want is to get caught on the wrong foot.

So of course the time I should've spent working, I waste in drafting a reply as for a communications person, I am totally lost for words. And all the time I know, it will be over in the morning. Having worked in the radio industry for just over 16 years, I have dealt with people with ginormous egos, the worst cases of bitching- it is quite terrible. But frankly, this was my first time to find someone, who I had done no harm to or even interacted with much, harbour such malice towards me. Because that's what it came across as- malice. But why would she be malicious towards me? Not because she thought I wasn't genuinely performing- which after a 3 weeks, I would seriously doubt. So far I had delieverd on time,I wanted feedback, I had the rest of the sections ready.

Well, I'm out of a job in a month- sad :-(

Thank God, I didn't have to work with such an egotistical person.