I thought she was just reading the situation until she said “surprisingly” that the bigger boss thinks positively of me, which made it sound like she had already formed a biased opinion about me. (I’m not sure if I was just being overly sensitive.)
I was asking about how to deal with being bullied at work, and her reading focused more on trying to work better with the situation and changing myself. But from my perspective, the situation was so unbearable that I was hoping for advice on how to get away from the bullying.
So I think maybe the way I phrased the question made it sound like I wasn’t trying to improve the situation. Mattie and some other readers were more agreeable with my decision to report that manager. Now, after a year, I’m glad I reported her.
Whoa. Injecting her personal opinion when you asked for a reading? Or was that her reading on the sitch? Thanks!
Her long-term predictions were not very accurate, but she was quite spot-on about several short-term things.
However, I also felt she could be somewhat biased. For example, when I asked about a situation where I was seriously abused at work, she initially read it as if I shouldn’t be going against authority, which made me feel a bit judged, as if I was somehow in the wrong. She even said it was “surprising” that upper management thinks positively of me. I had to ask her directly whether the person who abused me was being reasonable before she seemed to see the whole picture and acknowledge that I was being treated unfairly. Because of that, I felt that her interpretation might have been somewhat biased.