today I get the new list of individuals responsibilities, and what do you know, I’ve been demoted, suddenly I go from interiors director, to floating Cadd-bitch.
I ask my boss, what the fuck?
response:
we really apreciate all your ideas, you really gave the project good direction, but…
(blank) has been here longer, and so and so really likes her, so fill her in on what you have done to date. Don’t worry, she’ll follow through with your design, and you’ll be helping her, so you won’t be detached.
So let’s see, I set the ideas, I get things going, I hand everrything off, take a back seat…fucking bitch gets the credit, she’s already treating me like an employee…taletless hack. So, is this the way shit’s going to be from now on…
Sounds like my ‘supervisor’. This woman is a classic example a moron being promoted to keep her from doing any real work.
She recommended a high capacity printer (meant for 70-100 people) to a dept with 4 people in it. She pawns off other people’s work as her own. Sticks her nose into important project where she knows nothing and doesn’t help with suppport after.
The management turns a fucking blind eye. The entire office ganged up and said ‘do something about so-and-so’.
She goes home crying, takes some stress days, then comes back and the bosses make us hae a ‘we’re sorry, we didn’t mean it’ party’ and nothing was done. ARGH!!
A strong indicator that it’s time for you to take your brains and butt elsewhere… a place that may appreciate you more and pay you more money as well. You are not going to change these people’s minds… well what little they have anyway. I would not hold my breath about them calling you back in a day or two. The are not likely to admit their own stupidity… it’s bad for moral.
My mother, an avid reader, told me many years ago of a concept she had read about (sorry, no book title(?)) called the Peter Principle, that basically posited that people are promoted to the level of their incompetence.
My own (probably sour grapes) theory is that people in positions of power are not there necessarily because they are the best qualified for the job, but often because power is important to them.
… or possibly because they happened to be standing there when extra duties were being handed out. I’ve been watching a friend of mine at work named Bill suffer for nearly a year now.
His boss and his boss’s boss both quit within several weeks of each other for different reasons. That left a huge gap that needed to be filled immediately. Upper management mostly doesn’t do anything, so they continued that policy by promoting Bill rather than find some fresh talent. Up until that point he’s been as disgusted by management games as the rest of us, but apparently he can be bought.
The poor schnook is flailing. Bill has a heart of gold and absolutely no talent or training for management whatsoever. He can’t successfuly delegate, make a decision, or work a schedule. Bill knows he’s doing a crappy job, but at his age this is probably the last big break of his career. He’s got a couple kids just starting college, a wife with champagne tastes, and he’s behind on his retirement savings. So he motors on while trying to pick up management skills in his spare time.
The other managers are slowly carving up his territory. Any one of the real conniving bastards can scheme circles around him. You can see them circling for the kill, and there’s nothing any of us can do but watch. We’re all hoping Bill will pull through, but Vegas is 4 to 1 against right now. What can you say? Money talks
