So my immediate boss left last week. In the power vacuum a person who does the same thing as me (but has been doing it longer) has already begun telling me to do things by a certain time - something the original manager never did. One way ticket to Beeve Town coming up!
Ah right. One of ‘those people’.
Ignoring proper job which is mad bants, I also work at the family pub. There’s a great habit of a mass text going out saying “TILL WAS £££ DOWN LAST NIGHT ANY IDEAS??!!” then it’s revealed that someone paid for a delivery and the invoice wasn’t in the till, but this isn’t ever communicated to all those who got sent the text ffs
My current boss is alright really. I’m mean he changes his names for things/approach/processes every week but I’ve got used to that. Only really annoying habit is not proofing the emails he sends on his phone. The cream of the crop of these (which I have saved in its own special folder) was a reply that simply said:
“r he probl”
Takes phone calls in meetings that turn out to be from PPI claim companies, then loses his shit telling them he’s in a meeting and they’ve called him out of it.
will offer absolutely zero constructive advice if its on a topic that he’s not immediately interested in. also, his profile picture on his computer is a cartoon of himself, but with a lot more hair than his real life head. not annoying - just sad.
Well the obvious one is: comes into the office.
Others off the top of my head: control-freakery, failing to share important information, lying artlessly, being South African.
Exists
Micro managers are the absolute worst and I’m convinced it’s fuelled by insecurity about their general bossing skills and a need to cover one’s own arse (also due to insecurity)*
*caveat - probably fine in actual jobs that matter but barely any of us have those
Practices his golf swing in the office.
With my boss it’s more a pathological desire to do everything himself. To be honest over the last three or so years I’ve been pretty happy to indulge him in this, limiting myself to the odd “well personally I wouldn’t do it that way”.
Does a weird little jog whenever he moves around in the office. He’s desperate for people to think ‘there goes a very important person with lots of important work to do.’
keeps urging me to watch Nacho Libre (his favourite film)
Makes every conversation last about 10 minutes. Asked him something that required a one word answer, ended up stuck listening to him talk for 15 minutes about why I should buy my own domain name for personal emails.
smelly breath
Today my boss told me a five minute anecdote about dirt.
Has completely forgotten about my reasonable adjustments
Dish it
Honestly, my boss is faultless. Am absolutely blessed.
Handed her notice in, which means I’m going to have to find another job too.
