Horrible habits of your boss

the Bear SG

okay.. for the past few months, i've been complaining about all the "suay kuan" and "chao kuan" of my boss... let's all kpkb together... i start with mine:

there are more.. so much more..

most of her past subordinates hate her with a passion

the Bear SG

and guess what happened after i posted this?

"let's discuss this" ended up a 3 hour dronefest..

i'm tired.. i wasn't that tired this morning.. the droning away sapped the life out of me

although i got some time off from my boss.. but it's 2 weeks from now.. i guess it's better than nothing

LOTUSfairy SG

i love my boss...grateful for the 2-week holidays he had given me

the Bear SG

ever had a boss which spends more time screwing with your document than actually amending it?

i give you an example:

remove comma from 3 line, replace with "and"
4th line, replace "spread" with "dissemination"
6th line, use italics on the word "recommend"

or actually go into the bloody document and then use strikethroughs, colour and other things just to "amend" the document needing you to clean up the whole thing afterwards?

it took her about 20x more effort doing all that than actually just typing over the bloody document!!

then it becomes a huge mess which is unreadable and i have to clean up again!!

elindra SG

My boss goes ballistic over the slightest things

But hor he is under a lot of stress and I do know that he is under some medication as well :x as he is suffering from depression :x

I think sometimes being loaded is not a good thing as well :x

fairlady_xoxo SG

My boss is ok with me....for now lol...but i wonder how she'll react when i'm tendering my resignation in another 1 1/2 more months time...

bluejuice SG

My boss has the habit of asking us to write memo on his behalf, print the hardcopy out for him to sign, scan into pdf document and then email it out when a simple email will do! Its not as if the contents of the memo is so important that it has to be on memo format!

He also prints a whole stack of stuff for filing and throw it out to us to file for him.

Every morning, he'll ask us go into his office, he'll go through all the items he asked u to do and the status. If its not done yet, he'll say "why so slow??" Even though it might be something that he threw out in the evening lik 6pm.. immediately next morning he'll ask for it..

Cameron SG

haha my boss, he's really one of his kind.

He will ask me what is his msn email account for the 999th time.

He will call back to office and ask me to pass the message to another colleague to call the customer to call him and he said it was urgent. He just couldn't ask me for the number to make the call himself.

which makes smart boss seems like an oxymoron.

nehpyh SG

My boss is the bao-kah-liao man....everything also bao. Not our tajee he also bao. Bah bao, char siew bao, long jong bao!

elindra SG

My boss is the bao-kah-liao man....everything also bao. Not our tajee he also bao. Bah bao, char siew bao, long jong bao!

He bao and do the work is ok

He bao and the kar kia do the work is not ok

bluejuice SG

My boss is a NATO type of boss..

Brags a lot about his past achievements but when it comes to actual doing it, he's totally clueless..

nehpyh SG

He bao and do the work is ok

He bao and the kar kia do the work is not ok

Sigh...he bao and he does it then world peace liao...

Since I have many bosses and only 2 ballz, here're other rants:

1. COO - think he's a puppet and going for a fast one...axed all new projects...basically, as long as there's complaints from comsumer, he axes them. Seow ah lau. Think he just wanna sail and F-off when his TOD is over.

2. Group boss - super cannot make it....mess up corporate comms big time...everyone below only know how to taiji...damn good somemore...any campaign also dun wanna answer...ask individual dept to handle..seow..then need them for fark.

laurence82 SG

ever had a boss which spends more time screwing with your document than actually amending it?

i give you an example:

remove comma from 3 line, replace with "and"
4th line, replace "spread" with "dissemination"
6th line, use italics on the word "recommend"

or actually go into the bloody document and then use strikethroughs, colour and other things just to "amend" the document needing you to clean up the whole thing afterwards?

it took her about 20x more effort doing all that than actually just typing over the bloody document!!

then it becomes a huge mess which is unreadable and i have to clean up again!!

thought Word have tracked changes?

the Bear SG

thought Word have tracked changes?

now you know how stupid things get at my workplace...

today, kena ambushed again.. i am ready to go for lunch.. sent email to lunch kaki to meet for lunch.. 30 seconds later, "let's discuss this" and from 11:50 to 12:50, drone drone drone.. about the other guy's project... not even my business.. by the time i went for lunch, the other fellas are done with lunch and finishing their coffee... so i had to have a quick one and come back...

thing is, she buey paiseh one... i am dying of hunger.. lunch kakis call my mobile, text my mobile, i text back in front of her, and the big one, my stomach was growling very very loudly... she totally ignore all and keep droning on and on and on...

bloody hell! it took her one bloody hour to tell me to supervise a site photography at 5am on 9 May???

bluejuice SG

now you know how stupid things get at my workplace...

bloody hell! it took her one bloody hour to tell me to supervise a site photography at 5am on 9 May???

why don't you tell her that you've got a lunch appt and then you'll come back to discuss with her after lunch?

the Bear SG

why don't you tell her that you've got a lunch appt and then you'll come back to discuss with her after lunch?

thing is, cannot.. this is the other guy's project.. and the other guy is needed off site at 2pm.. he's just getting ready to leave as i speak...

bluejuice SG

thing is, cannot.. this is the other guy's project.. and the other guy is needed off site at 2pm.. he's just getting ready to leave as i speak...

ohh.. i see..

then really no choice...

my another female boss also like that. She likes to call you into her office JUST when you're about to leave office. You can stand there carrying your bag .. she'll just continue to talk and talk and talk..

But sometimes I just tell her, I got appt, need to rush off then i go off.. can't be bothered..

the Bear SG

what pissed me off is that she spent the whole morning talking nonsense with the dy director.. and dunno who else.. and doing rubbish (i know.. i was in the cc list of email crap)

thing i also don't understand is that she's not well.. she's had a persistent cough for about 2 months.. refuses to see a doctor.. and somewhere in there, she pengsan for about 5 days.. still refuse to see a doctor about it..

her spine is screwed from osteoporosis.. and full of bone spurs.. and has shifted so that she needs an operation.. what does she do after her MRI which ended at 4:15pm? she rushes back to work!! and only gives us what has been at her inbox for 2 days at 5:40pm...

what the hell is wrong with people like her??

thing is, according to a few people who were from the other side of the merger, this is the culture of the management from their side...