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Has there ever been a time where you knew your supervisor/boss was completely wrong in a decision they made yet would not listen to the rational, correct course of action regardless of anything?

This happened to me recently and so I curious to hear your supervisor horror stories.

I could rant forever about my current job. But then my boss is my boss and he does what bosses do... which exactly against what the rest of us want him to do. However if I was in his position I wouldn't be any different. His job description is different then mine. He has to meet different standards then the rest of us and when shit finally hits the fan he is the one to deal with it all. I wouldn't want my bosses job, he may make decisions I don't agree with, but those are his to make and not mine. I don't get payed to do, much less care about his job. I get payed to do mine. I can bitch and scream, and disagree all I want. Things may change, things may not. As I said, not my job to make that change. That's how I see it.

Back when I was a canvasser at a remodeling company we had a boss who would arbitrarily change the rules everyday. He also gave the same 15 minute speech everyday which no one needed. We all talked amongst each other about how we hated it, but I was the only one who told him so...

Needless to say I didn't keep my job very long.

Went on a short vacation to see family and I come back and one of his arbitrary new rules is "no vacation". Go figure.

my supervisor and the assistant manager of my department are generally great if a little short tempered. mostly fair and indulgent enough. the top manager though is an incompetent patronising fool. she's good enough in an office, but on the floor she has no idea. not that i could do a better job, far from it, i am in no way management material, but there are several people who in the company who could do her job better.

My ex-boss was a horror story. She -

1. Brought her nephew to work on a regular basis, expecting us to babysit him and "help" him with his homework (read do his homework).

2. Gave people projects and gave no to insufficient information as to what she wanted. She wouldn't answer questions saying "you should know that." Then, when the project went south, she would say, "you should have asked questions."

3. Kept people overtime because of her bad planning.

4. Slept with her boss.


My solution was to retire on short notice.

Solution: Join a trade union.

Solution: Join a trade union.

I belonged to a Union - closed shop - totally ineffective.

Nice topic!

Here's a couple of posts I made in a different forum (idleworm.com) about my current situation on the job and with my so-called superiors:


I *used* to like, even love my job, but right now I hate it so much words fail to describe it. You know this feeling when you realize you really gave an arm and a leg for your company and superiors and the one time you really do need their support they just let you down?

Those guys treat a good employee like a dozen bad ones.



Loyalty is more often exploited than rewarded.



I started to block those "special assignments" they offered me all the time. Or I didn't answer the phone in my free time. I'm no longer willing to do extra work. I'm fed up with it. I'll just do my job, do it in a way so noone can criticise me for it, do it right, but I'll no lomger use myself up for them.

Funny thing is, now they start to get naggy. "What's up with you? Don't want to do some extra work? What's up? Anything wrong with you?".

Morons!

"I`ll tell you guys what's wrong: You treated me like shit, abused my loyalty and the one time I needed your support you let me down. You drove me into burn-out, made me sick. I'm done with you! Neglet your fiduciary duty if you want to, but don't expect anything more than work-to-rule by me. Bye! And stop calling me!".

You know, this is exactly the point why I seriously start to consider the option to join the middle management. Yes, I was offered a job there, but I always refused to be a pencil pushing, pea-counting parasite. On the other hand that way I could work my way up and get sweet sweet revenge on those idiots AND get the chance to enforce my view of leadership and a system of reward and punishment...

Though I know to well I'll just go mad of broken mentally over it, so I guess I`ll stay where I am. I`d rather watch my back out on the beat than in an office.



Ah, great. Seems like they'll sack me - the eternal dissident - tomorrow.



I really love the "We think highly of you and want to promote you, but should you decline you will be terminated."-part.



Came back from the talk a few hours ago and right now I don't know wether I should be embarassed or foaming with anger.

The situation now as it is: None of the major departments want me anymore. I no am officially labeled as both a tough customer and a "dissident", even a troublemaker.

And all that, because I complained about the way training is handeled. There are certain levels and codes to maintain, even a lot of requirements and they just don't care about them. Seems like I was only useful as a cheap source of labour. By the time I started making requests or complained about "You don't teach me what you`re supposed to teach me." they started to get itchy. That's what I get for asking both for work, training and work where I can learn or improve new skills. That's good for me, good for them and ultimatley good for the company. They just don't listen.

I could go on and on about this (e.g. like I never had a real evaluation talk with any of my superiors in the last two years nor did I ever hear something like "thank you"), but there's no point in telling anymore.

I`ll put it that way: If I`d be the guy responsible for the trainees I`d make sure they get trained and NOT abused as cheap sources of labour.

Maybe it`s the old school German in me, but I`m the kind of guy who puts his money where his mouth is: Either do it all the way or don't do it. Perfection and efficency, if you catch my drift.

Oh well. Now since I got unbearable for them, there is only one department left for me to go. That'll be back to armored car service. The bosses back there used to like me, maybe they'll give me a chance to continue my training (there is one year left until I`m all finished). Right now that's all I can hope for, otherwise I`ll be royally fucked and the sweat and blood shed (both literally) by me in the last two years would be in vain.

Here's hoping.



Anyway, I`m done with the company. Once I finished training I`ll quit immediately and look for a job elsewhere. Maybe there is a place out there which rewards loyalty and hard work?



Update (for those who care):

By last friday afternoon I`m now officially assigned to the "Quality Enforcement and Quality Control" department. Think of it as something like the company inquisition.

Payback time...


Oh well. One more year...