I guess I will never understand management that requires near flawless results in the absence of specifications. I will never understand how that became my requirement as a programmer to gather specifications that were either vague or nonexistent as that is a businees analyst role and then spend that inordinate amount of time on that task and then begin coding and then testing and then completing documentation and all of this with the complaint that this falls beyond a single week as a deadline. Especially when it wasn't identified in my job description or in the interviews previous to my acceptance of said job.

And that this is considered reasonable in lieu of everything that had to be done up to this point to retrieve the data when active views and tables that the DBA( my boss) was responsible for failed to update with either the current data or there were data intergrity issues that meant extra filters placed in stored procedures to exclude this or that.

I will never understand whatever political stuff that is going on between the users( as mentioned by my boss) in terms of complaints but when i speak to them everything is fine and they are understanding the time it is taking and my boss and that obstacles have been posed by him in my way to nail down specific criteria. So there is a discrepancy in regards to what is said in my presence and what he is referring down to me second or third hand.

Now I have to copy my unreasonable boss on every e-mail which he hardly reads because my outlook read receipt reflects that he doesn't and that he wants me to stop any and all verbal communications with them as he says they are saying one thing and you are saying another. How could that possibly be productive based on getting a result quickly as the user/ client contact I interact with has other duties and e-mail doesn't always translate the thought process of what is needed and what is expected to be produced. And he and I have worked well together so far ? How can my job be done effectively without speaking to my point of contact here ?