Friday, March 21, 2003
Did I say unprofessional when I mentioned my boss the other day?I should have said totally bloody stupid.
She set us a task today, and then just to make a straightforward job more difficult, she makes it a contest to see who can complete an equal share of the task in the fastest time. So there you have a group of people working against each other instead of with each other, and in such a way that completey dissrupts the normal working routine. That's bad management if ever I saw it. Anyway, she gave us a time limit of 4 hours, which myself and the guy I work with achieved easily, only to be told afterwards that we'd missed the 'real' target time by some margin.
Needless to say, I was not happy about this, and when I queried it with her, she said we'd missed the target and that was that. I asked "what about the 4 hours YOU set us?" She waffled on for a moment, at which point I expressed my displeasure in no uncertain terms saying that I was perfectly happy to work to a target, but for her to move the goalposts afterwards was unacceptable. She walked away.
This probably isn't going to be the last such episode, and it's only a matter of time before I leave. It's a real shame, because I enjoy the job, and like all the other people I work with... I just can't stand to be messed about by an incompetent manager on an ego trip.
Steve 11:42 AM [+]
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