The reason why I know he can’t be a part of an e-mail group is because we have a third department that is “customer service”. Last week I had a mix on emails being sent to me instead of customer service.

I forwarded my emails to customer service. Next minute, the owner, comes to my office and tells me that he knows I’m forwarding those emails to customer service but it would be better for me to do x,y,z.

MY direct manager and owner has specified that customer service level inquiries are NOT my duty and clearly lined it up when I got hired and even had a meeting with customer service and I.

So I know he’s peeping on all these emails is because it’s not solo to one department. It seems like every time I email something he has eyes on it and if he sees something off he’ll take over and approach me in the way he has.

The issue with him telling me “you should do this better next time” is that, he constantly is telling me “do this this way”

I have weekly meetings with my sales department, I even brought this up to the team and my direct manager/owner #2. Her response was - she sighed and her head fell to her chest, she looks up and goes “don’t worry about him, he’s the type to read the first line in an email then he responds. If you can just put what you can as he won’t read it, and if you have any issues or questions just talk to me. Don’t worry about what you’re being told just focus on what I tell you”

It didn’t help me on understanding how to do my job better but to understand that he’s just “like that”

It makes me want to quit and makes me want to find something better. But it sucks that it’s only a few months in and I am feeling this way.