@NovaBlaze, thanks so much for your input!

My boss came down on me for it yesterday - telling me about how the company culture works and is a collaborative one, as though I I haven't been working there for nearly a year and a half!

I got fed up - this was yet another instance of my boss coming down on me over a mistake. I told her yesterday morning that I had had a bad day the day before and apologized.

She didn't want to hear it - she only wanted to light into me and told me that a workstream isn't working well as it stands now, when just two days before, she was saying to me how well things were working, right in front of her boss.

She had spoken with the woman who has to approve my website changes for 40 minutes, and that woman must have told her it's NOT working well.

Well, I got fed up and brought the issue to my boss's boss. I used the word "bullying" and told him that my boss frequently comes down on me hard and basically "bullies" me. I also told him that she micromanages me. I scheduled a meeting with him for Monday to talk to him about it. I even told him I will take the matter to Human Resources, if need be.

I don't know what I am doing - but I took action. I couldn't take it anymore. Her coming down on me the way she did yesterday - as though all the systemic problems are all MY fault and MY doing - well, I couldn't take anymore. I am simply trying to do my job and do it well.

If the woman who approves my recommendations is overwhelmed with too many website requests, then we need a better system in place.

But does that mean my boss needed to give me a lecture on how the company culture works? Just recently she was singing my praises on how I had collaborated so well with our copywriter and our external agency partner on a project. And now I am receiving a lecture on team collaboration??

The woman who approves my work has been implementing on the website multiple things that are UNDOING my work on the site. I HAD to get them corrected in order for my work to be a success. Why implement anything I suggest, if that work is only going to be completely undone? That's seriously counterproductive.

I told my boss this yesterday - but she didn't want to hear it. She wanted instead to give me a lecture about the company culture being a collaborative one, and how my work is not always a priority within other teams.

She wasn't being supportive of me needing to get my work fixed so that it would succeed - she was being supportive of the woman in charge of approving my works who is overwhelmed by the volume of requests I am sending to her to approve.

Is that my fault? I am immersed in our holiday website campaigns, and I had to fix the problems occurring there. Then, I am coordinating work that is coming at me from two different external agencies - also to be approved and implemented on the website. Well, there is pressure for me to get ALL that work done THIS quarter and not in the new year. Those are the expectations that were set upon me, and that's not my fault.

But my boss came down on me for all of it. At least that's how it came across to me. She likes to blame me when other people's feathers get ruffled, and that seems to be her M.O.

Do I go through with this meeting with my boss's boss? I would have to likely give him examples of bullying behavior.