Rifts at work and assignments

On the first day of training for this job, they emphasised the whole 'us and them' mentality was not what they were looking for in this workplace. However, thats what it seems to be turning out to be. The quality dominatrix, as our surrogate teamleader refers to her as, seems to be giving errors to people for the littlest of things. For example, I get a comment for writing 'send' instead of 'fax'. What difference does it make? Its not like the people picking up the documents and matching it to the applications will have first hand knowledge of where to look, it doesn't work that way.

Our actual team leader appears to be a bit of a coward too. She doesn't actually approach the person with which she has a problem with. Instead theres a general email send around the whole team which spells out the details, without actually mentioning any names where its obvious who she's talking about.

Anyway, I've got a 15% assignment due on Monday which we only got today for project management. Apparently its supposed to reflect workplace pressures, which is stupid because they don't put in all nighters without pay. In this case we don't get any bonus marks or anything of the sort. Another stupid thing is that its not like most people at uni just don't do the assignment the weekend before its due anyway, so its not like its a really small timeframe to do a 15% assignment in.

So I'm not going out drinking tonight. Instead, I'm going home to do the assignment, hopefully bum around on Saturday, go see a movie on Saturday night, and then work all day Sunday for Mother's day. Nice looking weekend huh. At least I won't be too bored.