Managers at work

[Andy]

Hi,

today I am in a mad mood.

I managed a project and it was judged by my group-leader to be a failure and today he reports it to the whole company as a major sucessfull project fullfilling business objectives and explains the basics of the solution like he knows next-to nothing about it and uses incorrect terms describing the specified names of major items.

This really makes my blood boil, the guy critisized me in my appraisal as a bad communicator and said my project was late and said I did a bad job. I know it worked out well, people liked working with me and we came out with a good working solution against many obstacles.

In my present job I took a paycut and a drop in status to enter a new industry segment but I'm finding that they are holding me back and misreporting to make them look good on the back of my efforts. So now i'm determined to get out and back to where I was before.

Now I hate my boss, the one pretending to help my career. If anyone of you guys are tempted to drop job status, don't! You will be treated like you know nothing and need to learn off the more senior-ranked people, even though they might con you otherwise.

[susieq]

Andy, I empathise strongly with you....

But, you know, but they are all out there...... somewhere.......

[Andy]

A new thing I learn't is that this is a "task orientated environment" where everything is task-oriented like no people are involved. Actually, they aren't, only resources. Only, PC's, software, hardware, biological resources and hours are involved. All managed by spreadsheets. Good luck in you career!

[baba]

Amazing how things are so distorted when you're unhappy with your job...
Sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience Andy... careers get better and they get worse... that's just life.
Good luck on the next project, or job if you decide tat you are in fact unhappy with your current job.

[Andy]

baba, thanks for your input. I've actually been unhappy with my career since it started some 18 years ago. I always tried to do my best in a job but got obstructed by managers who normally seemed to get in the way of progress asking for reports, breifings o how to understand things, meetings, conference calls and coming out with continual wize-cracks. Most jobs, I managed to bypass the managers and go direct to the MD avoiding the pointless middle-management.

[SensoVision]

Sorry to hear that you have problems, Andy. That is probably problem of almost any kind of permanent job... so unless you're boss of yourself you doesn't get gurantee that it will not happen to you

[Andy]

I'm planning to form my own company and contract my services to eliminate the "job" aspect. I'm convinced this is the best idea for me after working alongside many contractors and lately managing one.

[spherica]

Simpothize with you totally.

I've gone from one job that the pay was awesome but my superviser had swollen head syndrome, to another job where I was supervisor, and work terms were ok, but the pay was terrible.

Emplyment goes both ways, truthfully, I'm pretty "mild mannered" and next to never said anything, except where times went to heck and things had to be said.

Now I work with my brother from home, we have our stressful times, but nothing like working for someone else.

[Andy]

Managers have an ego problem where thet cannot listen or take advise/tips of subordinates.

[Philou]

A man come into a store to buy a parrot.
- How much is this red one?
- 3.000 euros.
- What???
- This parrot talks french and english sir!
- OK! I'll have the blue one.
- 5.000 euros.
- What?
- This onr talks 4 languages and is abble to typewrite too.
At this moment the custumer notice in the back an old parrot who losted allmost all his feathers.
- This one much be cheap. I'll have it forget about the others.
- 10.000.
- What? Are you kidding? What does she do for this???
- I don'tknow, but the too others call her "chief"!

[Andy]

Seems like it's a global problem.