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blueyes
04-25-2005, 03:28 PM
...and then come and see me."

This is what I feel like telling one of my managers. He's got me working on two very similar environmental plans that are due to go out to the client tomorrow. Problem is, dude keeps mixing them up. He's now got an appendix from one plan in the other plan that straight up doesn't belong there. He's now got more formatting changes - nitpicky crap - than all of our HS english teachers combined. Oh, and NOW he wants two copies of each for tomorrow, instead of only one.

Dude. You are an incompetent manager - you had this project for two months. Do not come to me the day before something's due and throw it in my lap. And do not ask for fifteen copies of each plan by the end of the week. It just makes me want to hate on you all the more. :mad:

Oh. And he smells. He absolutely did not take a shower today. WTF!
GetMeOuttaDC
04-25-2005, 03:38 PM
why don't you tell him that you feel like you could assist him better if he were more clear about what needed to be done on which plan? Offer to help him organize them?

:lol: Isn't it sad how you can't really say this to managers in consulting? The crappy part is, you know he can't really be a complete freaking idiot, as much as it looks that way... you would HOPE he had to work hard somewhere along the line to get where he is.
blueyes
04-25-2005, 03:45 PM
Oh man, GMODC - he's our water guy in the office, and he has ME looking regs for him. I have almost no confidence in Dude right now.

And, believe me, we've tried everything but the cattle prod to get this guy to organize himself. It is, quite literally, a hopeless case.
GetMeOuttaDC
04-25-2005, 04:16 PM
Oh man, GMODC - he's our water guy in the office, and he has ME looking regs for him. I have almost no confidence in Dude right now.

And, believe me, we've tried everything but the cattle prod to get this guy to organize himself. It is, quite literally, a hopeless case.

See, that just pisses me off about managers... Anyone our level who had to have their coworkers try "everything but the cattle prod to get you to organize yourself" would have been loooong since written up and canned. If that were YOU who were such a mess, your boss wouldn't stand for it. Yet you have to put up with it from him. :madder:

I seriously wonder if the people who make it to management are sooo burnt out by the time they get the job that they are are just figureheads. You know, I did my time and didn't sink, so I am gonna rest on my laurels.
Mad Dawg
04-25-2005, 04:38 PM
Heh... I like my managers (yes, I have several) mandating I keep an internal web site detailing my case notes, but then they each come ask me for an update rather than reading the freaking web site! There is another one who must have an e-mail filter deleting mail from me, because everytime he asks for something I sent several weeks ago he claims he doesn't have it I have to search through my sent items folder, find it and re-send.