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kristin31
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 Posted: 02/12/03 - 19:50 Post subject: One more adventure with my assclown of a boss..
Who just got back from vacation in Florida. Not that he doesn't deserve it. Everyone deserves vacation, and he does work hard. But he can be such a JACKASS!!!
I have been fighting a really nasty cold that went ot my chest late this weekend. I've got asthma so that makes it a lot worse. So anyway, I took off work Monday and literally slept most of the day, went in yesterday because I had to (new employee, deadline, no on else in my department there) and felt like crap. Hazy, coughing, sore throat, etc. Got home ast night, ate some pasta, and fell asleep face down on the bed fully clothed at 8:30; did not wake up until 7 this morning.
Still felt like poo, went into work today, boss is there, today is manic, servers crashing, holes in data, etc, etc and at the end of the day, my boss says to me"Well you really should get that (cough) looked at. You don't sound good, and you look pretty pale"...without missing a beat, he then says" BTW, can you work on this database reporting tool tonight? We really need to get this out of the way, and don't forget to tell Elaine (our assistant) about your sick day on Monday (I already had)"
Or maybe I am overly sensitive?
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copteacher
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Posted: 02/12/03 - 19:53 Post subject:
sounds like micro management at his best. I hate when people insinuate that I am trying to get one over or that I am stupid.
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Cappy
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Posted: 02/12/03 - 21:07 Post subject:
Sounds like an asslcown to me Kristin.
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thegman
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Posted: 02/13/03 - 01:05 Post subject:
Cough on him. Nothing beats catching a cold after returning from a vacation in Florida.... 
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purple hayes
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Posted: 02/13/03 - 05:44 Post subject:
| thegman wrote: | | Cough on him. Nothing beats catching a cold after returning from a vacation in Florida.... |
Excellent suggestion.
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jrjo
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Posted: 02/14/03 - 11:05 Post subject:
..now where is that flarunner quote.. oh yeah, here it is
| flarunner wrote: | | LEAVE THEM! LEAVE THEM ALL! |
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genie
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Posted: 02/14/03 - 11:49 Post subject:
What jrjo said. And yes, your boss is a jackass. I'm starting to realize that pretty much everyone in corporate America is, at least anyone with any scrap of authority. Only the little people seem to have remained human.
Now get your ass home and back to BED! 
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Morpheus99
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Posted: 02/14/03 - 12:13 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | | sounds like micro management at his best. I hate when people insinuate that I am trying to get one over or that I am stupid. |
Yep.
Here's something to look at.
Micro Management:
Why?
Every large scale enterprize of man sets itself up as a hierarchical structure with a few executives, a greater number of managers and any number of workers. This is necessitated by the nature of work and cannot be bypassed by anyone in any endeavor requiring the "many hands that make light work".
It revolves around the capacity of the human mind to make decisions. I know from experience that on a real hard day, a man can make about 3000-4000 decisions in a 14 hour day and he's just about wasted. I don't mean BIG decisions ... just trivial ones.
Typcally, you have a one sentence problem given to you by a worker. You make a sentence in your mind (or maybe not). Then, you make a one sentence decision directed to the worker. And on to the next problem awaiting a decision.
So, given that one sentence takes about 3 seconds and 2 sentences for a decision to be arrived at ... times 4000 equals ... 24,000 seconds ... = ~ 7 hours. Add in coffee, breathing fire, eating, a few trips to the can ... you're wasted.
The same thing applies to every worker involved ... top to bottom. There are definite limits to what you can do.
Now if you focus on the small, you lose sight of the large & vice versa, i.e. if you must unload a truck of many small packages and must count them as well ... focus on the work itself and you lose count ... focus on the count and you drop the package on your foot & break product & lose much time and the other workers (who aren't counting) accuse you of being a slacker ('cause you've got to slow down to count, eh?).
Somebody's gotta' be the chief and most have to be indians because the big & small problems scale just like craters on the moon. The hierarchy is forced on man by the nature of work. It isn't an invention. It's a clear necessity.
Now to the crux of the matter.
No one knows everything. Some people think they know best in a given situation (the executive). And others get it right 90% of the time (the immediate manager). Some know what to do here and now but don't know why (the general workers).
So the exec tells the workers what to do directly thinking he knows best. The manager is insulted and degraded. The workers have absolutely no respect for the "new icehole". Thus, the enterprize collapses.
Because,
The executive was right/wrong ... it doesn't matter. If he has the time to direct the workers ... why hire the manager? If the manager gets it right 90% of the time ... why not eat the other 10%? After all, can you expect a better overall performance from an executive doing management "partime"? And any group of workers will lose respect for "the suits" if they obviously haven't got their poop together.
The hierarchy forms up as a function of the number of decisions to be made. Who takes what place in the hierarchy is best determined by performance. Since no one knows everything or is perfect, the hierarchy just eats the errors and factors that into the cost of the final product.
Last word on the "new guy".
Every time there is a shakeup in the hierarchy, the new guy tries to change something. This is "super-micro-management". The new guy asserts his appearance in the hierarchy by "discovering" something which is being done wrong ... "It must be changed". Now, everyone who has been in the hierarchy has already seen this and mutters "Here we go again ... we did the same thing last year and it didn't work then either". Now after a few months of the new thing, the hierarchy goes back to the way it was done before the "new guy" arrived. Then they wait for the next new guy to screw it up again.
The only time that a new method works is when the "all things being considered" changes. But that factor consists ONLY of factual, physical data or eternal truths about human conduct.
The new guy always thinks this means simply, his arrival.
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jrjo
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Posted: 02/14/03 - 12:27 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | What jrjo said. And yes, your boss is a jackass. I'm starting to realize that pretty much everyone in corporate America is, at least anyone with any scrap of authority. Only the little people seem to have remained human.
Now get your ass home and back to BED! |
You'll love this true story.. I know it's true because it was a former dept mgr of mine and here's a conversation he told me about.
Dept Mgr to CEO :: "With this employee survey we just conducted, I can tell you the two worst managers without even having the scores compiled yet"
CEO :: "Really? Okay, who?"
Dept Mgr :: "Mr X & Ms Y"
CEO :: "Think so? We'll see"
...few weeks later
Dept Mgr to CEO :: "Looks like I was right about the two worst managers. Those scores are awful. Malcontented staffs, disputed decisionmaking, disrespect, overworked, underpaid.. they hit bottom on every category."
CEO :: "Here's a couple of promotion announcements I'd like you to distribute"
Dept Mgr :: "X & Y?!?!"
CEO :: "You see, we want management to be the type that pushes their staff, doesn't coddle them. Those departments with content, happy employees aren't being challenged enough and worked to their potential"
...absolutely true corporate story.
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genie
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Posted: 02/14/03 - 12:37 Post subject:
You really work here, don't you? You're that quiet runner dude downstairs, keeps to himself......sits in his office laughing to himself all the time.....I know you!
 that is so much like the BS nonsense that happens here it is scary.
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