Posted on 03/16/2007 5:59:48 AM PDT by radar101
The biggest workplace jerks are the lazy ones who can't or won't do the job then point fingers at their betters.
Too many chiefs and not enough Indians... Everybody wants to be the boss but few can actually do the WORK...
"Passion is an overrated virtue in organizational life, and indifference is an underrated virtue."
That, unfortunately, is the key to surviving a career in public school teaching these days. Teachers who start with a passion to teach children are soon confronted with so many obstacles to that goal that the only thing to do is quit or "check out" while continuing in the job. Initiative is buried under the stifling layers of local, state, and federal regulations that squeeze the joy out of teaching.
Also the more abusive they are to their minions the more kiss-ass they are to their superiors.
..years ago when I had this problem with a boss who liked to help himself to my secret Twinkie stash, and he would never admit to it,I simply "injected" a few marked single packaged bombs with Tabasco hot sauce. He couldn't say anything about it...and he stopped
I had a boss like that once. Two visits to the gyn in one month, and he was all questions. A long, exhaustively detailed and graphic descritption of my menstrual woes, cramps and flows shut him down pretty effectively.
Come to think of it, that would cure a lot of things.
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There is a VP where I work that couldn't come up with the answer for the question what is 2 + 2. She has to convene a committee and/or orders someone else to do the work. She is the reason I'm hoping to retire early.
I've had some real doozies in the Army. Usually they were new Second Lieutenants straight out of ROTC who knew EVERYTHING. However, one word from the First Sergeant that they were to follow me around and I'd show them the ropes usually worked. If not, I had some simple ways to get them reassigned elsewhere. You're only as strong as your weakest link. ;)
I just started my Dream Job this past week. So far, so good. I like my new Boss's management style, and the next guy under her is great, too; he and I are equals. It appears that I'll have lots of autonomy in my new position, plus a seasoned staff to lead, which will be very helpful.
Show me the scope of my job, then get out of my way and let me do it. :)
We have a megalomaniac here who thinks she runs the place. When something happens, such as a power failure, I don't see my boss or the managers or presidents of the various companies in the building. No, I see the customer service manager in my doorway telling me it has to be fixed, what are you doing, when will it be back, etc.
I finally had to tell her to shut it.
hehehe. You go girl - that is awesome. :-)
I'll have to remember that one......
He cannot legally ask that question. It is a violation of the HIPA Law.
I worked for a guy once that did lines of cocaine on the toilet tank top in the mens room .... and he was a major a-hole.
So I thought I'd give him a little lift by dicing up some Altoid breath mints and sprinkling the fine powder on the toilet tank top .... make him think he left some coke from last time he snorted
So ... about an hour later in he goes ... locks the door. About 5 minutes later he busts out of the mens room with his eyes almost bleeding with tears ... face red as a brick.
I blew an entire mouthful of coffee through my nose when he ran by my desk heading for his car ....
I'm pretty sure that the new HIPPA regulations prohibit bosses asking meical questions. That's one workplace jerk that needs to be educated.
Got out after 8 years with the company and burned bridges behind me.
by a lawyer
You just described our corporate office. Back-stabbing, throat-cutting, knee-jerking bunch of snakes in the grass.
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