Pandora's Aquarium: horrid day at work - Pandora's Aquarium

Yesterday was an awful day. I had finished my competency test the day before, what a relief... I was going cross-eyed from staring at the questions for so long! So the only things I had left to complete was a skills test and moot court before I'd be let out in the field on my own. The day started out OK. I had a bit of a headache right from the beginning, so that kind of put a grey cloud over everything.

After lunch I was told I was going to have moot court about 20 minutes before we were supposed to begin. I thought I was going to have the skills test after lunch, not mock court... They pulled one of the cases I worked on and my supervisor played the prosecution while our asshole quality assurance manager played the defense attorney. It was horrible. QA tore my case notes to shreds and asked me questions that I'm pretty sure no attorney would even think to ask. I understand that the point of moot court is to be particularly hard on the person so they are prepared when they go to real court, but even my supervisor was getting angry with the questions the defense was asking. Yet, she made no attempt to 'object'. After both of the 'attorneys' were done, the lab director who was playing 'judge' decided she had more questions for me. That's when I lost it.. I started crying in front of everyone. It's so embarrassing. I want to crawl into a deep dark hole and die.