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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
(My ("dumbass boss" )BBTF)
I got a new boss a few months back, who doesn’t know shit about shit, but thinks he does. Let’s just say, I’m not too fond of this dude, nor do I adjust well to change. I know this fool must think because I got a Spanor last name I must not comprende ingles. Fukcer! Anywho I could go on for days on how this man pisses me off daily, but I’d rather not bore ya’ll with the details. He’s one of those people that gives you way more details then you asked for. For instance you ask how a meeting was that HE attended, that he had you running around for gathering materials for the day before just so he’d be prepared. The question was “How did the meeting go”, which warranted a one to three sentence answer, for example: “The meeting went well. The information that you gathered was very helpful and greatly appreciated. We accomplished XYZ.” End of conversation, that’s it, NO MORE WORDS, because I got shit to do, like blog. But nooooo, this man wants to tell me everyone in attendance, and who they all work for, and every other irrelevant detail. I told ya’ll I hate frivolous conversation filled with unnecessary information, that I didn’t ask for. Please don’t waste my time.
So today, I’m responding to all of his emails that he likes to send out as soon as I walk out the door for the day. Asking for me to create some frivolous charts that he is forever asking me for. This man stays sending emails, and the he gets a little too excited about using parentheses, he just puts them in for no reason. Then in the subject he’ll basically write everything in the subject. He’ll be responding to one of my emails, and change my subject.
Here are some examples:
“Out of the office”: me letting him know that I’ll be out 1 ½ days next week and next week only and every Friday from 9:30-10:30 to tutor a 2nd grader.
His response- RE: “Out of the Office & this week too”: will you be in the office all this week?
Don’t you think that since I’m letting you know all the days I will be out in the near future, I would probably include anything within the next 5 days too?
“Q4 Projection”
RE: “Q4 Projection & Ashli, some comments on recent discussions”
“Performance Update + Airbus Presentation”
RE: “ Ashli/Michael, please update your slides”
“Ashli / Michael, do either of you have Adobe Writer?”
“Spreadsheet for Friday's review with Airbus”
RE: “AEM feedback Ashli, please comment quickly while we still can call AEM... - Spreadsheet for Friday's review with Airbus (30 minutes)”
Back to why I’m writing about this today. So he comes in all frantic this morning, asking for another damn chart and then 5 minutes later comes back asking my availability for some dumbass meeting. I hate meetings. I always tell him I’m too busy, hehe, or if I’m not, I come late because I say I had another important meeting or I gotta leave early for a meeting. So I tell him I have a conference call at 9:30 with my Italian supplier, a 10:00 team conference call with engineering and my Californian supplier, and a 2:00 conference call with my Californian supplier again. Then he had the nerve to ask if I could skip the team conference call for his dumbass meeting, a conference call that he is supposed to be on but has blown off every single week since he’s been here. Of course I said no. Whatever. So I went to get something off of the printer to prepare for the said team conference call that I was running late to because the Italian conference call ran over. It was obvious that I was in a hurry, but this fool stops me and says, are you done with your calls yet? I tell him, “Uh (scrunched up face an all), no I’m not, and I’m running late to my second one.” I know I specifically told him about both when he was asking when I was free today. He was standing there with our “finance lady” and “this chick” that works for her in the financial leadership rotational program. So “finance lady” is telling me about some info she needs for a meeting that just came up. Same info the “dumbass boss” had already asked for in the morning so it was already done. Of course he wants to jump in and throw his two cents in, explaining what it is that she is looking for. No shit, you told me this morning. Its already done but I haven’t sent it out because I’ve been in a meeting. So I run and get it and bring it back for “finance lady.” Upon my return, “this chick” needs some other info for said meeting, I’m familiar with what she is looking for since the chick that had her job before needed that same info once a month. So I tell “this chick” I can get that to her right away, like within 5 minutes, so she’ll have it for her meeting. Why did “dumbass boss”, give me this perplexed look, and once again jumped into the convo, talking about all the details of what “this chick” is looking for and the importance of how its needed ASAP for a meeting and did I think I could get this to her. Was he not just standing there? Ugh I hate him. I fully understand that English language and don’t need a translator, nor do I need you to repeat everything 45 times, thank you very much!
Side note: me and my mentor have a code name for him: BooBoo the Fool, aka BBTF. So she sent me some form that I needed to fill out, which required you to fill in the name for the IBO Purchasing Manager. I didn’t know what IBO stood for, which meant “dumbass boss” probably wouldn’t know either, so I changed it to BBTF Purchasing Manager, with his name next to it. If he asks, I have no idea what it means.
So today, I’m responding to all of his emails that he likes to send out as soon as I walk out the door for the day. Asking for me to create some frivolous charts that he is forever asking me for. This man stays sending emails, and the he gets a little too excited about using parentheses, he just puts them in for no reason. Then in the subject he’ll basically write everything in the subject. He’ll be responding to one of my emails, and change my subject.
Here are some examples:
“Out of the office”: me letting him know that I’ll be out 1 ½ days next week and next week only and every Friday from 9:30-10:30 to tutor a 2nd grader.
His response- RE: “Out of the Office & this week too”: will you be in the office all this week?
Don’t you think that since I’m letting you know all the days I will be out in the near future, I would probably include anything within the next 5 days too?
“Q4 Projection”
RE: “Q4 Projection & Ashli, some comments on recent discussions”
“Performance Update + Airbus Presentation”
RE: “ Ashli/Michael, please update your slides”
“Ashli / Michael, do either of you have Adobe Writer?”
“Spreadsheet for Friday's review with Airbus”
RE: “AEM feedback Ashli, please comment quickly while we still can call AEM... - Spreadsheet for Friday's review with Airbus (30 minutes)”
Back to why I’m writing about this today. So he comes in all frantic this morning, asking for another damn chart and then 5 minutes later comes back asking my availability for some dumbass meeting. I hate meetings. I always tell him I’m too busy, hehe, or if I’m not, I come late because I say I had another important meeting or I gotta leave early for a meeting. So I tell him I have a conference call at 9:30 with my Italian supplier, a 10:00 team conference call with engineering and my Californian supplier, and a 2:00 conference call with my Californian supplier again. Then he had the nerve to ask if I could skip the team conference call for his dumbass meeting, a conference call that he is supposed to be on but has blown off every single week since he’s been here. Of course I said no. Whatever. So I went to get something off of the printer to prepare for the said team conference call that I was running late to because the Italian conference call ran over. It was obvious that I was in a hurry, but this fool stops me and says, are you done with your calls yet? I tell him, “Uh (scrunched up face an all), no I’m not, and I’m running late to my second one.” I know I specifically told him about both when he was asking when I was free today. He was standing there with our “finance lady” and “this chick” that works for her in the financial leadership rotational program. So “finance lady” is telling me about some info she needs for a meeting that just came up. Same info the “dumbass boss” had already asked for in the morning so it was already done. Of course he wants to jump in and throw his two cents in, explaining what it is that she is looking for. No shit, you told me this morning. Its already done but I haven’t sent it out because I’ve been in a meeting. So I run and get it and bring it back for “finance lady.” Upon my return, “this chick” needs some other info for said meeting, I’m familiar with what she is looking for since the chick that had her job before needed that same info once a month. So I tell “this chick” I can get that to her right away, like within 5 minutes, so she’ll have it for her meeting. Why did “dumbass boss”, give me this perplexed look, and once again jumped into the convo, talking about all the details of what “this chick” is looking for and the importance of how its needed ASAP for a meeting and did I think I could get this to her. Was he not just standing there? Ugh I hate him. I fully understand that English language and don’t need a translator, nor do I need you to repeat everything 45 times, thank you very much!
Side note: me and my mentor have a code name for him: BooBoo the Fool, aka BBTF. So she sent me some form that I needed to fill out, which required you to fill in the name for the IBO Purchasing Manager. I didn’t know what IBO stood for, which meant “dumbass boss” probably wouldn’t know either, so I changed it to BBTF Purchasing Manager, with his name next to it. If he asks, I have no idea what it means.
8 Comments:
Stacie von Kutieboots said...
i want to know how he got that position...I hate people like that. I tell them, "Dog, I know you saw me standing here. I just heard EVERYTHING she said. And I heard you twice the first time, get it together"
Miss Ashli said...
I know he probably hates me because i be giving him the ill face all the time and walking out before he finishes saying something he's already told me 45 times.
jameil1922 said...
wow.... *sigh* i hate foolish people. its even worse when you have to work with them... compounded when you work for them. so stupid. if i had to work under someone foolish i would be pissed.
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boo blog spam. somethin like this definitely happened today. we as a hotel get performance audited, and the managers of the hotel literally follow this girl around with their lil shit to say and the nerve to come in the shop with little faith that i know what i'm doing/talking about. nevertheless i got a 100 and she was impressed that i didnt have to turn to management for info. wop wop.
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DollFace said...
His need to repeat himself incessantly sounds like micro-management to me...I hate that isht! The LEAST you can do is be confident in the abilities of the person that you hire!! Makes you wanna say, "I got this son!! Ease up!!!"
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