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I have an itnerview for a higher level post in the secretarial field today. However I am running from my supervisor because she behaves so badly with me and secondly she promised to get an increase in salary for me and she has not done so after several months. Our department has two lawyers and myself giving secretarial support and doing all the administrative stuff.. I love my job but I am getting fed up with her finding fault no matter what I do and speakign down to me as if I am stupid! When the matters come in - I start the investigation and respond to the person who sent us the matter and the legal officer signs. I have to log in every correspondence coming in and going out, files the same way plus creating new files for each new matter, - logging the matter in and assigning the matter a number. Guys it is technical and time consuming. However she said on my performacne evaluation report that the filing system or organising of them needs to be done,. Now she never ever comes to my desk and ask about the system I have in place. I have always thought that the reason for a filing system was for the easy retrieval of files and information. Well I organised the files in alphabetical order and placed the names of each file on its respective hanging folder. Meaning that if you are looking for a matter in H you would look for the letter and the person's name and the file is retrieved. Then you place it back in its exact position (the folder has its name). This leaves no room for mis-filing but still whenever I am not at work they cannot find a file and I find everything on my desk as usual! This week (Wednesday)she came to me and told me that she realised that I have the files in alphabetical order but not in the categories as she wanted them to be! I looked at this woman as if she was mad. I told her that she never explained to me the order she wanted but I have filed in the way I was taught bearing in mind that whenever I am not there someone else could easily find the files. She then began to explain to me that she told me but I did not remember. This woman is a liar! I never even knew that executive matters where actually court files. I thought they were executive because they came from the the Minister of Education, the Permanent Secretary or the Chief Education Officer. So I just told her that I am not going to re-organise the sytem becuse she was there when I was organising the cabinets and she never made clear her intentions regarding the filing. This is only the last item that caused me to change my mind about the job. In my heart I dont want to leave because of the hands on experience and the fact that she will be going off to have baby will ease the strain too! Am I being too hard on her? Oh! She is much younger than I am and she had tha attitude with me from day one. Look not everyone is going to be supervisors! If there is no supervisee who will she supervise? Someone has to be at the lower level doing the work anyway and I love my job! No one ever complained of my performance before. As a matter of fact I am one of the top five secretary in the Ministry - Number one if a poll should be taken! I am a hard worker. I take my tasks seriously and follow up on eahc mattter to the last full stop.! Sometimes the lawyers on the other side answer as they hear my voice because they know me and give me a time and day when to call back if I have had no response. Sometimes they call me before I call them too! Any advice?