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BelemNole

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So our company used to have no real structure. One director used to manage a ton of us. Then we got a new guy sent from the corporate mothership and he told them that was inefficient and no one should manage more than a couple people. So it used to be as GIS manager I reported to one of the directors, but she took those words to heart, and had me report to a manager at about the same level. Stupid, but I didn't care because it was a friend and she left me alone. Well...she quit. Director told me I would be reporting to her replacement - we'll call him "Mr. Jockey's are too tight" Guy has managed to alienate everyone he comes in contact with in the first 2 months of working here. My friend had agreed to work on-call and transition projects over to him for a few months...yeah, that didn't work. She's told him to eff himself within a couple weeks and now he's struggling to hold his shit together. In the meanwhile he's trying to micromanage me and my group, which he knows nothing about.
Today he sent me an email about my utilization and my timesheet. Now, my group provides an internal service at the company and are 100% reliant on others for our workload. We do zero selling.
So he sends me this email bitching about my utilization rate (which is the same as it's been for the past 2 years) and wants me to go back and account for any overhead I charged. So...do I make shit up an say that I was advancing my knowledge base thru tutorials, journals, etc; tell him the truth - that I was on warchant/staring out the window waiting for work; or just ignore the SOB completely?
 
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Ignore the request and a) he'll shortly move onto some other burning fire and forget about yours, or b) he'll quit / be re-assigned / get fired, and you'll never have to provide the requested information.

Worst case - you ignore, stall, and deflect until it's apparent that he absolutely needs/wants the information, if he's even still around by then.
 
Russ is right on. Once you answer this question he will then begin pressing you for more information and using everything you say as a case against you one day. I can't stand managers that work this way. It's the only way these low life slimy leaches know how to survive. They provide no real value to the company, just know how to work the system and out last the others by covering their ass with bull shit reports.
 
BelemNole said:
No, I've had this job for a couple years now, but currently looking VERY hard for a new one. He cc'd my director so I replied, and I replied with a lot of snark - because that's just how I roll. We'll see how ugly it gets. At this point I just don't GAF.
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Thata boy
 
BelemNole said:
So our company used to have no real structure. One director used to manage a ton of us. Then we got a new guy sent from the corporate mothership and he told them that was inefficient and no one should manage more than a couple people. So it used to be as GIS manager I reported to one of the directors, but she took those words to heart, and had me report to a manager at about the same level. Stupid, but I didn't care because it was a friend and she left me alone. Well...she quit. Director told me I would be reporting to her replacement - we'll call him "Mr. Jockey's are too tight" Guy has managed to alienate everyone he comes in contact with in the first 2 months of working here. My friend had agreed to work on-call and transition projects over to him for a few months...yeah, that didn't work. She's told him to eff himself within a couple weeks and now he's struggling to hold his shit together. In the meanwhile he's trying to micromanage me and my group, which he knows nothing about.
Today he sent me an email about my utilization and my timesheet. Now, my group provides an internal service at the company and are 100% reliant on others for our workload. We do zero selling.
So he sends me this email bitching about my utilization rate (which is the same as it's been for the past 2 years) and wants me to go back and account for any overhead I charged. So...do I make shit up an say that I was advancing my knowledge base thru tutorials, journals, etc; tell him the truth - that I was on warchant/staring out the window waiting for work; or just ignore the SOB completely?
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Make stuff up, but try to make it somehow be a euphemistic way to say what you've been doing on Warchant:

I've been researching our rivals and attempting to understand our competition.

I've been doing an in-depth analysis of our strengths and weakness and evaluating both where we've been recently and what we will being confronting in the near future.

I've been reading business articles that are essential to my job:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2014/10/13/dealing-with-a-bad-boss-the-micromanager/
 
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Bang his wife
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Can't, apparently she left him already.

I just sent a shot across his bow that's going to cause some waves, we'll see how it goes. One of us will be in hot-water by the end of the day. He made some veiled comments about under-utilization leading to potential negative changes (hint, hint) and again cc'd the director. I thanked him for the heads-up and told him I'd start interviewing...cc'ing the director as well.
 
Good lord some of you are rebels. I'm too straight laced. A snarky response to your boss is something I don't think I would ever do... but I commend you for it.
 
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A few things to note:
1. I HATE this job. So much so that I think it's causing me real, clinical depression.
2. They currently have no one else who can really do the job. Yes, they can fire and replace me, but they've shown an incredible resistance in the past to do such things, even when the employee was incompetent. And I'm not.
3. I have emails from my director telling me to bill multiple clients for work that I didn't perform. I refused....but I saved the emails....
 
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BelemNole said:
A few things to note:
1. I HATE this job. So much so that I think it's causing me real, clinical depression.
2. They currently have no one else who can really do the job. Yes, they can fire and replace me, but they've shown an incredible resistance in the past to do such things, even when the employee was incompetent. And I'm not.
3. I have emails from my director telling me to bill multiple clients for work that I didn't perform. I refused....but I saved the emails....
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Seems like a sh!t show with billing. You probably did the right thing by not billing in areas you're not supposed to. They won't hesitate to throw you under the bus if things go south, like the Volkswagon management did with their engineers
 
It's really stupid. They knew we're going to hit numbers - numbers that they made up - so they started telling staff to bill other projects, or future projects. Why? If they didn't hit those numbers they didn't have to answer to anyone above them. They were just digging themselves deeper into a hole. Now all the other project budgets were jacked up as well as projects not even started yet. Instead of taking their lumps they pushed it down the line by asking us to do sketchy shit. And that's not even the worst of it. I won't post it all on an open forum while I still work there, but glassdoor makes for some fun reading already and when I leave....BOOM!
 
BelemNole said:
It's really stupid. They knew we're going to hit numbers - numbers that they made up - so they started telling staff to bill other projects, or future projects. Why? If they didn't hit those numbers they didn't have to answer to anyone above them. They were just digging themselves deeper into a hole. Now all the other project budgets were jacked up as well as projects not even started yet. Instead of taking their lumps they pushed it down the line by asking us to do sketchy shit. And that's not even the worst of it. I won't post it all on an open forum while I still work there, but glassdoor makes for some fun reading already and when I leave....BOOM!
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Damn it feels good to be a gangsta!
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BelemNole said:
Can't, apparently she left him already.

I just sent a shot across his bow that's going to cause some waves, we'll see how it goes. One of us will be in hot-water by the end of the day. He made some veiled comments about under-utilization leading to potential negative changes (hint, hint) and again cc'd the director. I thanked him for the heads-up and told him I'd start interviewing...cc'ing the director as well.
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Sounds like that guy has it in for you. Hope you come through it ok.
 
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Well, I still have a job. And that's after telling him exactly what I think of his emails and his micro-managing. Was an awkward hour. He's not a bad dude really, I just have zero effs left for this place and he's determined to tilt at windmills. I told him as much. He told me not to go interviewing, that he wants to retain me.
I sent out resumes as soon as he left the office. Should I list that in my overhead notes?
 
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Well, I still have a job. And that's after telling him exactly what I think of his emails and his micro-managing. Was an awkward hour. He's not a bad dude really, I just have zero effs left for this place and he's determined to tilt at windmills. I told him as much. He told me not to go interviewing, that he wants to retain me.
I sent out resumes as soon as he left the office. Should I list that in my overhead notes?
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Sounds like the director stepped in and told him to back off. You have some leverage here.
 
Director is here today too. She's firing the guy next door I believe. The three of us had lunch together. We acted like nothing happened. Should be an interesting afternoon.
 
She's going through your internet usage to build a fire before you get shhh canned. You typical California whinny hippy is sure to sue- probably slip and fall on the way out the door
 
Fijimn said:
She's going through your internet usage to build a fire before you get shhh canned. You typical California whinny hippy is sure to sue- probably slip and fall on the way out the door
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If she could do that I'd be worried. But we're in temporary office space now and we get everything thru the vendor, including internet. So she'd have to go to them and have their IT guy search my usage. Would probably be a pain in the ass and cost them a bit of coin. They're too cheap for that.
 
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