I’ll go out on a limb here and just guess that this boss lives to bash the self-confidence of subordinates. I realise there’s not a lot of evidence in what you

I’ll go out on a limb here and just guess that this boss lives to bash the self-confidence of subordinates. I realise there’s not a lot of evidence in what you said, but: 1) This is your first job, you’re not expected to know better. Your boss has clearly been in this career for a while to be in charge, so already knew this before criticising you. 2) Your boss telling you that you misunderstood a comment made by your manager is nonsense - he wasn’t there so he has no way of knowing. Not a fan of this word because it’s thrown around for everything, but that to me is transparent gaslighting. 3) You’re more-or-less solo, on a project that they clearly care about enough for it to be a problem - as a first job out of college. That’s just bad management, and no-one competent would expect that to work out - and yet from what you’ve said it has. Good job! tldr; the problem is very likely not you, but watch out for this dude as there’s a lot of red flags here.