Message #65773

[bellajgw]

Well, since your boss knows you read his e-mail you might as well confront him about it, because he WILL know that you have seen it.  By not confronting him about it he may think that you have something to hide.  Confronting him about it (in a professional way) will make you look more adult, professional, etc.  

I would do this as soon as possible, the longer you wait the stranger it will look.  Also, I would take a few minutes to go over the past year in your head, looking for things that maybe you missed, issues he has had with you, things he may be referencing.  Take those things and find a professional way to respond to them.  If this is all news to you and your boss has never really said anything negative, go to him with that.  Say you don't want to wait for your review to talk about it.  You work hard and have no idea if he's unhappy about something until he says so.  Why wait until your review to dump it all on you when he could simply been up front about it to begin with and given you a chance to improve.  Doing it this way is like passive aggressive sabotage.

And besides, if you go to your boss with this he may say that it wasn't him making the negative reports, but the other manager...then you at least know where the problem is coming from.  

Trust me, doing nothing and sitting on your hands until review-time is the worst thing to do.  You have to protect your job and your work-image, especially at this weird time.