Corporate Hierarchy

I honestly do not understand why in the corporate world, you cannot tell someone what you think, just because they make more money than you. If you think about it, the reason they make more money than you is because they have been here for a longer time and over time they have proven their worth to the company. If I haven't been here as long, it doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about, it just means you need to listen more carefully to find out.

I am writing this specifically because of someone that I am being forced to work with, who likes to make my life miserable when he can. Actually, that is giving him too much credit. He doesn't care enough about me to make my life miserable, it just happens to be that in the process of him demanding I meet his every whim, my life is made miserable.

He comes to meetings and acts like he doesn't have time for this nonsense. I collect as much information for him as possible to make his life easier, but he doesn't take a second to reference any of it before complaining about everything being incorrectly done. Then instead of telling me what needs to be changed he says it's all fine and storms out, only later to send out a group wide e-mail with everything changed and blame me for what wasn't done properly. Most of the things he gets upset with are a result of him not reading carefully or making incorrect assumptions.

All I want to do is be able to tell him, "Sir, if you had read the information or even the summary I presented you with weeks ago, you would have been able to catch these changes. If you would realize that people are involved other than yourself, you would see how inconvenient it is to make these changes in the plan. Lastly, if you would consult with the other people in this group about your thoughts, you would get some constructive feedback about what is the proper way to proceed. I may not know what I'm talking about but you need to check your facts before making accusations, please. Thank you and have a good day."

See! That doesn't sound so awful! But I have been instructed to not e-mail this man without copying my boss' boss on it and I do not think she would like it if I wrote these things. So now I just feel like a pawn who has been stripped of all movement powers. Checkmate.