My boss is known for being moody and irritable. He deals with “little man syndrome” with his height. He’s an over achiever and never loses in anything. He’s always right, even when he’s wrong. Has a HUGE ego and is extremely arrogant. He’s a classic “bully boss”.
He doesn’t realize when he backs off his employees, we work quite harmoniously….
So i am working on pulling orders that don’t have to be done for 3 days. Why i am eating lunch my boss comes in to eat his and asked me when i am going to be done with the orders. I tell him that i really hope to be dome by the end of the day. So about an hour later he comes to me and asked if i was done with the orders and i told him NO cuase i had to pull an order that is going out before the other orders i was pulling. 45 mins. later he comes and asked how things are going and if i was done with the orders that orders that he was asking me the frist time. I wanted to yell at him and tell him if he wants them done today to stop walking around like a chicken with it’s head cut off and relax, i have never not gotin an order done less than a day be fore it has to go out and if he thinks i am slacking then i will do your job for a week and you can do mine and i would treat him the same ay he is treating me.
is is the real all purpose asshole boss. He is the kind of guy that is “my way or the highway”! Tables and presentations have to his way. If someone puts any different color in the spreadsheet he would yell “who is messing with MY tables???”. We even nicknamed them as “spreadshits”. Well, I was the one doing all the forecasts so I needed to make it easier for me to handle all those vehicle model forecasts!!! The only thing for him was to approve the final numbers and then he would make me and the other analyst sit in front of him and he goes line by line in the spreadsheet looking over each number….and the he would be the oly one facing the monitor!!!! It would be hours of me and my colleague staring at each other and listening to the stupid boss complaining about everything!!!! He also like to make everybody against each other in the team! He claims he can speak English, and he yells at us from his office: F-O-R-O-W-A-R-D that email to me!!! (I worked in a North American company based in South America).
I was fired because my boss made up lies which HR believed to be true depite my previous boss’ glowing performance reviews. HR couldnt fathom how this could happen but still believed it. Goo figure. I guess they were required to have some sort of built-in leap of faith mechanism and it also helps to not care, not listen and a lot of other not’s.
The new boss was in charge for less than 3/4’s of a year. During that time, support statistics for our department were no longer being distributed, even to us. This new boss managed the department like he managed his life. Anything that created work was something to be avoided at all costs. Complaints about the level of support being provided steadily increased. And you wonder why…