This is me being highly unimpressed...

[mousme]

I am *this* close (:::makes appropriate hand gesture:::) to giving notice, except that I'm moving, and I don't need the extra stress.

This job is an exercise in frustration, and unlike the other place, which was also an exercise in frustration, over here my boss apparently thinks nothing of screaming at her employees. At least the misogynistic ass who was my former supervisor kept himself to a minimal level of civility.

I understand that she's in pain because she tore her ligament in her knee skiing (on company time, but that's a rant for another day), and I understand that she's had a trying day because she spent the whole morning repossessing equipment with a bailiff.

But:

1- No one forced her to go with the bailiff. Her husband could very well have done that on his own.

2- None of the above is an excuse to go off like a fucking land mine on all your employees for real and imagined faults when you come back into the office.

Seriously. I'm really pissed off. I don't appreciate getting no information for days, then getting contradictory instructions, and then getting screamed at because I didn't follow the contradictory instructions, and then getting screamed at because I got confused.

Fuck.

She calmed down and apologized after I called her on the screaming, but still. I can't work like this indefinitely. I can work in high-pressure situations (Erb wasn't exactly a picnic), but I won't work in a poisonous atmosphere either. If she doesn't shape up, I'm shipping out.

Not to mention that today was, once again, almost a complete write-off.

Comments

[vureoelt.livejournal.com]

Do you really feel your old supervisor at Erb was better? He kept jerking you around on paycheck, status, benefits, wouldn't support you in any way shape or form and, from everything you said, basically did squat all for you. This one apologized whereas your old one, to my knowledge, never really recanted anything.

This was (as far as I know) the first time it ever happened after some trying circumstances. *shrugs* Aside from this, I'm not sure what qualifies it as 'poisonous'.

You can't save people from themselves.

[montecristo.livejournal.com]

Either this woman has to get her head out of her backside or you have to ask yourself what kind of person continues to put up with such abuse. If she's this bad, consider, what thanks will you get if you do save this idiot's bacon for her? Will she appreciate you?

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Remind me; did this woman's previous assistants all quit? I seem to remember you saying something along those lines when you first took the job...

Re: You can't save people from themselves.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

No, you misunderstand. I let her scream at the other guy. I just called her on the screaming at me for not following her contradictory instructions and then getting confused about the aforementioned contradictory instructions.

Allow me to clarify:

Instruction 1: "Post these before I get back to the office."

Instruction 2: "I don't want you to post these before I get back to the office because I want to go through them with you."

According to me, Instruction 2 should override Instruction 1, since it came afterward. I even confirmed this verbally with her twice.

When she got back to the office, she screamed at me, literally, for not having the work done. There was a ton of the same shit, over and over again.

She screamed at other people, for various reasons, some of them imaginary (see the above example), some of them not. I'm just wondering if this kind of abuse is routine in the office, or if it's just because she's having a shitty few days. I'm sort of leaning toward the former in my opinion, but I'm willing to give it a bit of time.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

No, one of them quit and the other was fired after two weeks. I'm beginning to wonder, though... ^^;

[ex-digitalis869.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I hope things get better soon. That's really frustrating, especially with the move.