Boss comes into work, goes into his office without a hello, closes the door and locks himself inside (!), cackles occasionally, making no other noise. A quick dash out to the driveway to peek into the window finds him on the sports site of a major newspaper. Binoculars confirm it: turns out he’s been listening to hours of football podcasts while he’s supposed to be available…open door policy and transparency and all that.
I was coerced into quitting my job after I got my one year pay raise. The worthless bosses nailed me for anything they could, just so they could get someone else for less money.
I knew they were pulling shenanigans, but could never prove it. I am a responsible adult (retired) and did my job to the best of my ability. No matter how much I did, it was never good enough after one year. I felt I was unjustly reprimanded too many times.
Don’t get me wrong, if I have it coming, then I can understand about be reprimanded, but I don’t think that I deserved 10 reprimands a year. 3 – 5 per year I can swallow.
I think these worthless bosses are nothing but a bunch of doomkopfs. I would bet that many of them never did a days work in their life.
I use to work in a place that made electrical control panels for paint booths. Not just any kind of paint booth, big ones! We’re talking, 747 aircraft size paint booths! I loved my job, and my work, I took great pride in what I did.
My boss was a great guy, easy to get along with, knew his stuff, great father to his daughter, devoted husband, all around great guy. He had one problem though; he didn’t like to confront anyone.
What is up with the stupid cubicles we have to work in???
I work at a computer software company and we all have some decent sized cubicles which in itself is fine. However, they have it set up so if you were to walk into the cubicle, you see the back of the person working and the front of the computer they are working on. I can’t tell you how many times I have been startled, jumped right up to the ceiling, when someone has come by to ask me something out of no where.
Is it just me?? I don’t like being sneaked up upon, it makes me nervous and is uncomfortable. I assume that companies situate cubicles in this way so that managers can walk by and see what employees are doing. I feel like a little kid. I mean, if I was goofing off all day and not working, it would be pretty obvious since I would not be producing anything. Personally, I’d like to be treated more like the adult that I am and be *trusted* that I was actually doing work rather than having someone check on me. Makes me work better.
If you ask me, if we are trying to build a ‘teamwork’ type atmosphere where employees can openly share information with other employees, the most effective thing to do would set up work spaces which are condusive to that. I’d much rather speak with someone to their face when I go over to them rather than talk to the back of their head.
Does anyone know why cubicles are set up this way?? Does anyone out there hate it as much as I do? Of course, higher up’s get offices with the computer facing *them* while they face the door when people come to see them. Ridiculous. I don’t see why that should be just their luxury.