August 4th, 2005my job sucks and my boss is a dick
I am sitting in a meeting… he is standing in front of me and we are looking at information using a projector.
He and I just got into it again. He wants changes on a fucking website that we are supposed to launch Monday. And I am trying to explain that the programmers will need time to change things and he says, “You have to understand how to manage. You’re in charge. They have to get it done by Monday.”
Hi people… it’s fucking 11:30 on a Thursday! There are corruption files with the site already, so the programmers are scrambling to fix that (mind you, these programmers are in a different state—lucky bastards—and they work for the CMS that we don’t even fucking pay for) and it takes TIME to write new programming info and they don’t work on weekends. Hello?!
So then I try to explain this, and he says (getting all heated), “You shouldn’t worry about your personal relationship with [name of one guy].”
I replie, “That has nothing to do with anything. This is a programming thing that TAKES TIME. And I’m not even dealing with [that guy], I’m dealing with [head programmer guy].”
So he said, “I don’t care if it’s with [insert first guy name, second guy name, and five other random names]. They have to get it done. If they say “No,” you have to call me immediately and I will call their boss and it WILL GET DONE.”
I replied, “It’s not that they tell me ‘No,’ it’s that there is a time factor. AND, the real problem is that every. single. time. they try to get stuff done RIGHT NOW, it ends up breaking and causing problems. We don’t want that. We need it to work right the first time.”
His response?
“No, we need to start making money.”
I. FUCKING. HATE. MY. BOSS.
This, btw, is one of those “I will not cry” days. Also known as, “I will get to have a cigarette and a large glass of vodka when this is over.”
Take it from someone who would like to be younger and fancies herself as wise (ish), don’t get yourself in a state over work. Chances are you’ll lose your sanity and gain sweet fuck all.
If you can’t make him see reason, prove him wrong. And if that means doing things in a hurry and getting a lousy result, just find a sarky way to say “I told you so”. Is that possible at all?
Comment by Anne — August 4, 2005 @ 1:32 pm
Truly the highlight of my day was reading this… thank you Anne. 🙂 And of course, the Tete pic.. sigh. 😉
I told you so.. well, kinda. The problem is the wasted time, money and effort—he has several times said, months after we fought about something, “You know, you were right.” But that is rapidly followed by, “But I was right to and let me tell you why…”
Weasel.
Comment by the insider — August 4, 2005 @ 7:19 pm
Oh weasel is right…!
Comment by Anne — August 4, 2005 @ 7:28 pm
As an ex-programmer, i, too, hate your boss. 🙂 Forgive my lack of uppercase letters, but my shift key is not working, and as an ex-programmer, I am flummoxed as to why…
Comment by Franje — August 19, 2005 @ 12:46 am
The shift key thing again… bah. I am working on that.
And I am so glad you hate my boss, too! Let’s spread it around! lol
(To be quite honest, I shared this conversation with the programmers, and they hate him as well.) 🙂
Comment by the insider — August 19, 2005 @ 9:59 am
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