During that time period, there was an escalation ... and I ended up with a black eye. He was agitated and more antagonistic because I was so excited by my work at Microsoft. |
He saw any kind of loyalty to the company as a threat to him, and he would undermine that consistently. |
It's pretty subtle ... that burden of anxiety off my back. I can focus, I am definitely more creative and I have a space of support around me, whereas before I would just have this adversarial claw on my back. |
So he creates this conflict where I am really trying for safety reasons to placate (him), and at the same time, I am trying as a contractor to go full time. The most pressure goes on when you are doing great things in the workplace. |