This. Your boss is correct about one thing–you’ve got to respect your manager for him to be effective. He’s confused about the order of operations here, though. Step one is for him to earn your respect, and he’s run his account with you deep into the red already, to the point where it’s hard to imagine him climbing out of that hole (even if he suddenly decides to care what you think).
Damn straight! Crapping on the floor will definitely get noticed.
Yippie-ki-yea, Mister Defalcation.
Let’s just say it doesn’t auger well.
God yes.
Like Chimera, never have I met someone who demanded respect and deserved it.
Inigo Montoya: "I do not think it means what you think it means. "
defalcation - crapping falcons?
defecation - … never mind
defalcation
Definition
Diversion, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, or theft of funds by some executive or high official who is entrusted with those funds. Similar act by a lower-level employee or functionary is called embezzlement.
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/defalcation.html
Whoosh . . .
He is trying to get rid of you. He is setting the groundwork both in his own mind and trying to undermine your confidence. Soon the written reprimands could come. By then the writing is on the wall and he is just following company policy in the process of getting rid of you.
Why would he want to get rid of you?
Could be several reasons. The main one is that some managers like to have people feel they owe him/her…so they like to hire their own. Someone else hired you…you probably give off a cocky attitude and he wants someone subservient. In this economy in particular he probably feels he can replace you in a snap.
Also…he may already have someone in mind to replace you and so wants you gone.
When you get a new boss for ANY reason…it is a very dangerous time for you. When I ever get a new boss I am nervous for about a year before I calm down. IME, the attrition rate of people under new bosses is rather high…approx 20-25%.
Yep. That truly sucks.
I’m in a similar situation. I’ve had a new boss for about a year now. She’s telling me about all sorts of things wrong with the database/intranet site that I built and that has been in use for about six years now. She’s spent maybe five minutes looking at it. She recently took a class on SQL server, and struggled through every bit of it. She clearly has no clue what it’s all about. Yet te day after she finished, she looked at my database (for all of one minute) and decided that the entire structure needed to be changed so that she can understand it better. (I told her that that was not going to happen.)
These stories always remind me of “The Amityville Horror.”
When the voices start whispering “Get OUT! ! !” do so, and quickly.
My experience with “documenting” was that HR took my complaint straight to the manager in question - in order to warn him that he had a “troublemaker” on his hands, and that he had to be more careful as it could end up costing the company money if I got any real proof. The subsequent meetings, it turned out, were being used to rate him on his ability to follow that advice.
Thank goodness for the HR underling who was new enough to be appalled by what she saw and clue me in.
Get Out Get Out Get Out.
Srsly.
It can’t, be whooshes are supposedly funny. It’s more likely you just didn’t know the meaning of defalcation. Look at it this way, anyone who is stupid enough to go for such an unfunny comment in the middle of a very serious problem thread is likely not smart enough to know the meaning of words with more than 3 syllables.
You got me, doc. I’m a stupid.
It was kinda funny, and regardless of whether he knew what “defalcation” meant, I think it’s a safe bet he knew it didn’t involve crapping on floors.
The correct term for crapping on floors, of course, is “dething”.
This discussion is reminding me of the scene in Moscow on the Hudson where Robin Williams makes his breakaway from his KGB handlers. He sidles up to a department store clerk (in Macy’s, I think) and mutters, “I defect.” The response, of course, is “Hey man, not right here - the men’s room is over there!”
Yes, but the correct term for crapping in threads is “ekering”.
Yeah, KG, I know, but this was a serious thread with a serious problem with one of our posters. The joke was barely even a grin and certainly didn’t fit the tenor of the thread. But hell, you hijacked this poor dudes thread and at least one poster thought it was funny, so I guess it was worth it, huh?
Leaving all the hysterical humour in this thread aside, your boss doesn’t like you, newcrasher, for whatever reasons. I think you have two options before you quit (if he doesn’t fire you first) - suck up to him like you said, asking for his advice, running everything by him, etc., and if that doesn’t work, try the mediation route, and if that doesn’t work, you’re done with this department. You have my sympathy; sometimes personalities just clash, and it is unfortunate that this guy is the boss of you.
I was accused of that once but it turned out the prosecutor was insane.