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01-20-2011, 11:11 AM | #1 |
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| Incompetent Superior? What do you do when you know your boss or other superior is really bad at their job? One of my superiors is really, and I mean, really bad at his job. He does enough good to slide through the cracks, but usually he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's frustrating.
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01-20-2011, 11:17 AM | #2 |
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| Unfortunately I don't think there is a lot you can do but let him hang himself.....EVENTUALLY he will be figured out by the right people. I know how frustrating this can be!!
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01-20-2011, 11:21 AM | #3 |
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| UGH... that'll take too long. I hear no one ever gets fired from their positions in this agency. I made a flier to explain my program, in my words, like I would to any parent I speak to. I wanted the flier to represent my program the way I would, because I assume the fliers would be used if I wasn't there. I wanted them to hold a certain message, yet his assistant handed him my mock up and he butchered it! It didn't hold the same meaning anymore, and it had so many typos and awkward wording in both English and Spanish.
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01-21-2011, 02:13 AM | #4 |
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| OMG I know how it feels like, actually, I just had a fight with my team leader because he is so unfair! |
01-21-2011, 05:50 AM | #5 |
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| I was in the same situation as you years ago. Try to refrain from bad mouthing him and try not to go over his head, unless you really don't care about your job. It will only be worse for you. Believe or not, people will either eventually find out or have already found out. |
01-21-2011, 06:36 AM | #6 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker | I have had a couple of great bosses and a few real stinkers. Turned out, the best tactic for me was to take the high road and do all I could to make the boss look good by giving my best performance. I had to decide that my loyalty is to my employer - and that although the person might be a jerk, the position he holds requires my best efforts to support. You might try sitting down with him and in a non-emotional way, ask about the changes he made. I would tell him you don't want him to have to spend so much of his time editing my work, so if you could understand his reasoning, perhaps you could write the next project the way he would like. At the same time, you could say you noticed a couple of minor typos and offer to correct them. I had a boss that used to change everything I wrote just so he could feel that it was his work, not mine. I used this tactic on him and it worked. A couple of times I went to him with a sentence I knew was poorly worded and said I had writer's block. Then I let him "figure out" how I wanted to word it in the first place. I never did change my writing style, but it let him think he was the superior writer, which was all he wanted in the first place. At one point, he told his boss in my presence that he had written a procedure manual that I wrote and gave to his boss before he was hired. The big boss looked at me - and I just smiled and rolled my eyes. I was dismissed from the meeting, but as I was in the outer office, I heard the big boss tell my boss exactly what he thought of people claiming other people's work. My boss took a "voluntary" retirement not long afterward. These jerks eventually get found out and I believe that karma does catch up with them. |
01-21-2011, 07:31 AM | #7 |
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| He personally isn't a jerk. I don't think he and I would be best friends in the real world, but he's not a jerk. He's just highly incompetent at his job. And to top it off he's not my supervisor! He was supervising people in my position, but that was 2 years ago. My supervisor is the Assistant Director of the entire place, which means my boss is his boss too. Yet, he tries to go around what my boss says, and is always giving contradicting information. ALWAYS! He's leading a meeting today. Another 2 hours wasted. : I just smile and nod, and say "ok" even when I know he and his assistant are wrong. I always double check with my boss before proceeding.
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01-21-2011, 08:17 PM | #8 |
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| At least your boss doesn't hold daily meeting to discuss To: and CC: etiquette in emails. Did you know that if we send the email TO: him and his boss that we may "starve the horse"? Because both of them may think the other fed the horse and so no one would feed it... I wanted to be like "You can just consider that email my FYI that I fed the horse because we all know you don't even know how to find the barn!"
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01-22-2011, 11:08 AM | #9 | |
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01-22-2011, 04:29 PM | #10 |
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| I work in a call center and we have a Help Desk. During the hrs I work, there is 1 guy that usually works till close. He has a condescending attitude to everyone but supers. There is only 1 senior that works the late hrs and he is in charge. One of the guys that sits next to him sd he always bad mouthing the reps that call him to ask questions. I know I call sometimes and ask q's I should know cause sometime i just forget. I have heard him bad mouth me when he thought he muted it. I complained to several of the supers in quality assurance meetings they told me to talk to the one higher than them. I did. Several coworkers have sd they have complained also. But he still has the position. I actually try to figure out if he is on hd before I call. My immediate senior has told me to call her anytime as she knows the problem. I am convinced he has something on someone at the call center or above. The highest I went did say she would monitor him and apparently they did cause for about a week he got better, but right back to the same way. ARGH!
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01-23-2011, 06:09 PM | #11 |
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| i work in a nursing home as a STNA and the RN in charge of us is always trying to pawn her paper work off on us. A woman who no longer works with us once filled it out wrong and she got in trouble but it did not stop her now she just looks at it. she also makes us do our own work reviews which is just stupid. That is why I like to work midnight because all the residents are asleep I can watch TV or play on the computer and she is not there she gets in after breakfast (which she is supposed to supervise) and that's when I leave so i don't deal with her anymore really but I know that she still does crazy things and calls it delegating
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