Fully agree with this, this is the majority of my meetings. Weekly reoccuring meetings just in hopes it kicks people into doing something for them, often, it doesn't.
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We’ve got a new starter. TL has left them to fend for themselves. Fortunately, as I’ll be working on projects with them, I’ve been able to guide them on some things. Funny how the TL only wants to do that role when they feel like it. I feel so bad for the new person.
Someone on my team makes sounds like she’s been sexually pleasured.
edit to say it’s moaning sounds.
When a colleague doesn't like the answer to a question they asked so they reframe the question hoping they'll bamboozle you and get a different answer, but you repeat the same answer.
It ended with me getting a look of disdain from them because their sly trick didn't work.
It ended with me getting a look of disdain from them because their sly trick didn't work.
Sometimes they just go and ask my colleague, hoping for a different answer.
And sometimes it works cos the colleague is a push over!
One manager keeps asking me to do this one thing. I've said no each time. Six weeks later they ask again OR they'll state as fact in an email that I'll be doing the thing I already said I would not be doing. Apparently this manager thinks I'm stupid or easily intimidated. I'm neither.
Our head of department keeps changing her mind about stuff, which includes the remit of our jobs, training, vehicle usage, anything really. She will make a decision one day then literally reverse it the next day. She’s attempting to present it as agile managing but 1. that’s not what agile means, 2. the reason she’s changing her mind is because other people say stuff and it sways her and 3. she has never committed to any kind of strategy. It’s infuriating. One week she agreed we could get involved in a particular project then out of the blue, she told the project manager we couldn‘t do it as she had decided we needed to do something different but without communicating that to our team leaders.
Today, I asked about a particular issue where one of our vehicles has been designated a pool vehicle - a decision made by her to punish us for an incorrect claim that we were misusing the vehicle. I was told that she had reversed the decision and now the vehicle was solely ours again only to hear today that she’s again changed her mind.
bleeping public sector. I swear our managers don’t even know the meaning of the word.
Today, I asked about a particular issue where one of our vehicles has been designated a pool vehicle - a decision made by her to punish us for an incorrect claim that we were misusing the vehicle. I was told that she had reversed the decision and now the vehicle was solely ours again only to hear today that she’s again changed her mind.
bleeping public sector. I swear our managers don’t even know the meaning of the word.
Constantly being pestered by managers where are you what are you doing. You know what I'm doing the same 22 item uber you asked me to do ffs let me finish one thing before you start pestering
I used to have a manager who would email to request something and then call before I'd even finished reading the email, like literally seconds later.
Why bother sending the email, why not just call?
In the end I got fed up with her helicopter micro managing everything - I'd just hang up mid-way through her calls and when she called back I'd just say the call had dropped out
Man, she was irritating...
I work with someone like this too. Sends me an email then calls to discuss the email without giving me a chance to even properly read it, it’s often done for audit trail purposes but jeez I like to process information before I’m ambushed to discuss itI used to have a manager who would email to request something and then call before I'd even finished reading the email, like literally seconds later.
Why bother sending the email, why not just call?
In the end I got fed up with her helicopter micro managing everything - I'd just hang up mid-way through her calls and when she called back I'd just say the call had dropped out
Man, she was irritating...
There is a director in my place who does this with her team. If they dont answer the teams call immediately she rings their personal phone. I would block her on any phone the company doesnt pay for.I used to have a manager who would email to request something and then call before I'd even finished reading the email, like literally seconds later.
Why bother sending the email, why not just call?
In the end I got fed up with her helicopter micro managing everything - I'd just hang up mid-way through her calls and when she called back I'd just say the call had dropped out
Man, she was irritating...
Yes this one called me on my personal landline as she couldn't call on my personal mobile as the signal is crap. She assumed this meant my internet was down so I wasn't doing any work
This was during covid, I think everyone went a bit crazy but she was a complete pain in the a.
I feel this in my bones
Honestly, it’s not that much better in the private sector. I worked in the public sector for 10 years then decided to find out what it is like in the “real world”. There’s a lot of Managers over here as well that don’t know the meaning of the word. They are good at their core job function and that’s led to them getting promoted, but no one ever seems to think about the people-management aspect (at least as the places I’ve worked).I feel this in my bones
I worked in the private sector for 25 years. Totally agree that there are still a lot of managers who are either psychopaths or incompetent.
We can log into the cameras to see who is at the front door when you are expecting people or working alone. So far this morning all 6 members of staff who came in have walked passed the milk delivery. It always arrives after I am at my desk which is why I dont bring it in and on the top floor as well.
Its Monday morning the week we get paid and they are all playing chicken to see who will cave first to get milk for the tea and coffee they have to make as no money to hit up the overpriced (very posh area) coffee shop on the corner.
Its 2 cartons of milk not a huge amount to carry but still they expect someone else to do it for them.
I dont use the milk so it doesnt bother me, I just love how predictable they are
Its Monday morning the week we get paid and they are all playing chicken to see who will cave first to get milk for the tea and coffee they have to make as no money to hit up the overpriced (very posh area) coffee shop on the corner.
Its 2 cartons of milk not a huge amount to carry but still they expect someone else to do it for them.
I dont use the milk so it doesnt bother me, I just love how predictable they are
Colleague encouraging us to use AI to find alternative products for customers. Yeah great. Help make human staff obsolete even quicker. And the result he got was not the best option and cost twice as much as one I found quicker than he typed his search. duck wit.
Two of my managers keep trying to encourage me to move up from my current position.
No chance. Tons more responsibility for minimally better pay.
And I only have to do the minimum of people management in my current role. I'm not taking on any more. That's a mug's game.