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That's what I thought! Everyone!
I mostly vented all this to Missy and Andrew, but I still feel like putting it out there because someday when I have a new job that isn't just total bullshit all the time, I want to be able to look back and remember everything I don't miss.
My "new" boss (she's been there almost three months, and it's not a hard job), seems to lack the ability to ask me to do the stuff that she wants me to do. It's pretty stupid because she's the boss, and doesn't seem to have problems telling other people what to do. I don't know why she can't do that with me. She mentioned something about my attitude towards her talking to me, but I think thats baloney. If you're the boss, and you want something done, you tell the person or you deal with the fact that you didn't ask, so you can't get mad that it isn't done.
That's what I think about when I choose to avoid people I don't like/don't feel like dealing with. Either you suck it up and tell them what you need, or you deal with the consequences of it not getting done. Because most people aren't mind readers, things aren't just gonna happen.
All day yesterday, I knew my boss was going to need help setting a new display in my department. There were two left to get set on Wednesday, and she told me to do one, and she'd do the other on Thursday. I pulled my share of the work, getting the display set and filled, all while working a short shift and taking care of all the other junk that happens during the day.
When I came in on Friday, she hadn't done a damn thing for her end of the deal. So, around 8:30, she said she was going to do it. Fine. I can always find 8 million other things to do, so I busied myself with a bunch of other stuff, had a chat with the store manager about planning for the holidays, and talked to Gerald. All day long, my boss just sort of ignored me, not really saying anything as she walked by (which is usual), and also not really getting anything done on the project. I noticed a mess she started to make, but no real progress.
At 12:30, she left me a post-it on my desk (I was on the phone and I guess she didn't think she could talk to me), telling me to meet her by the new set. I did, and she said, I've been really busy all day, blah blah blah, I'm going to need help. I said, do you want me to set it for you? And she said no, I just need some help getting it done.
How stupid. I knew she wasn't going to get it done, but did she have to wait FOUR hours to ask for help? She is the flipping boss, but apparently I am a scary monster that she is afraid of. Go me.
I wind up setting the entire thing, putting up the new signing, and cleaning up the mess that she made while trying to get it all started. She took two and a half hours to pull the merchandise out of the backroom. It wasn't even that much stuff.
So then it was like 3:30, and we get off at 4. But she wanted to have a meeting, with the other two girls that she is in charge of. I told her we left at 4, and that I had plans. Somehow, though, we wound up being stuck in the conference room with her till nearly 4:20, not getting anything accomplished. It ended when I told her that if she wants something done, it's her job to ask, I don't read minds, and I was supposed to leave, so I am going now. I got up, and left. It was a flippin' Friday afternoon and she thought she could keep us there late just to bitch? Hell no.
She started to just go after me, but I wasn't having it. I can play her little game, too. She is the boss, she needs to make the effort to talk to me and tell me what she needs. If I need something from her, I'll tell her. But that is probably never going to happen, since I can just tell Kathy or Tim. Honestly, I'd be perfectly happy if she just left me and my department alone. I really don't need any help ever, I'd rather just do my thing and leave. I don't care about it, but I don't do stuff for no reason. If she has a plan, she needs to tell me what the hell it is. She really lacks that sort of leadership quality. And I don't have any respect for her. I've been there too long, and seen too many shitty managers, that they really have to earn my respect, I don't just give it away. And she has not done much in the way of convincing me she deserves it.
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Ooh, and I have an adendum to that anecdote. So, just before she pulled you into the meeting, she asked me to take one of the pulls out. She had three out there already, and two still on the line. So, I did what she asked; I pushed it out to the floor. Five minutes later, when she came out of the stock room, she saw me at the boat and said, "Are you already done with that pull?" Which was a veiled way of telling me she wanted me to work the pull.
So, I started helping her, but then she went into the meeting. So, I went back to the boat because Cleo needed help, and never went back.
Around 6:45, I saw her pushing an empty tub to the back; and so, at 7, she finally left. Hmm...
I totally agree with you that she is not as impressive as we had all hoped she would be. I think that because we didn't have a boss for months, we all got used to not being managed. And now you're being passively managed and I'm being micro-managed. No fun.
ugh. check your voicemail. listen to my story.
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