Boss's

Heyes

Ever have a boss that has totally wrecked your head ?!!... mine seems to be in a league of there own. Everything gets thrown at me to do, they dont actually know how to do them ... also just found out now that while i was out of the office today, my boss went onto my computer and went through my emails... im furious to put it mildly, some may find im over reacting but no cant seem to think anything other than annoyance on it :mad:

So have you lot had the same - a boss thats just been a right pain and if ye how so ?

Silverfish

Boss's what? Tie? Chair? Laptop? What?

My boss is mostly ok, my old boss however, would agree something with you before an important meeting, then in the meeting, would disagree with whatever you just agreed with him, in front of important clients. Made me want to smash his laptop into his face.

fade2black

Silverfish wrote:

Boss's what? Tie? Chair? Laptop? What?

Naughty.

Ruu_Old

Yes I have had annoying bosses. There was one person who I had done a website for and I was on holidays (she knew well too). She kept ringing me pestering me to get it fixed like it couldnt wait a few days! Get yourself webmail or something, then he wont be able to go through it, unless you are logged in all the time.

Nightwish

My current boss is quite possibly the most antagonising person I have ever met. He totally sucks up to the customers in work and it makes us sick listening to him. He's so OTT that I've seen customers actually almost be frightened of him. He think he knows everything, but knows nothing. He never listens (11 months waiting on my backpay!) and has cut everyones hours so he can get a bonus - easy knowing us menial shop staff wont be getting it. He leaves work an hour early every day and has 6 weeks holidays this year - I have no idea how the ****er gets away with it.

Miss Fluff

A couple of years ago, the company that I worked for had joint managing directors were having it off on the side. To say they were undesirable, vile swines who blatantly abused the right to be foul is an understatement. She was CONVINCED that there was something going on between me and her partner (the other MD) and essentially made my life hell.....erm Helloooooo, a sweaty, bald, grossly obese munter with such bad gum disease you could smell him down the corridor. Anyway, I could never quite fathom why he was so much nicer to me when she was not around so when she went on holiday to Australia I hacked into her email. Her sent items displayed over a hundred items referring to my incompetence (I was consistently top performer at work btw) along the lines of "Miss Fluff is currently applying her make up at her desk", "Miss Fluff is taking personal calls on her mobile" "Miss Fluff needs to be watched" (referring to a particular client where SHE f*cked up and I had to bail her out...!!!!!!!) Nightmare. Anyway, can't remember who said it but "People rise to the level of their own incompetence"...certainly true of some of these loons imo.

Mr. Presentable

Boss's? That's not even a word.

You mean Bosses, right? As in the plural.

You wouldn't get a job from me with grammar like that. The Boss owns/runs the company. He/she has more stress than you can imagine, worrying about where YOUR next paypacket is coming from. You have no notion of the sacrifices the Boss has made to get to the position he/she is in now. The last thing a Boss needs is a whining me-me-me!

Heyes

nipplenuts wrote:

Boss's? That's not even a word.

You mean Bosses, right? As in the plural.

You wouldn't get a job from me with grammar like that. The Boss owns/runs the company. He/she has more stress than you can imagine, worrying about where YOUR next paypacket is coming from. You have no notion of the sacrifices the Boss has made to get to the position he/she is in now. The last thing a Boss needs is a whining me-me-me!

I trained my boss, the person got the job cause there been paid a packet and are actually been made do something for there money !!!! Trust me on this, she has made no sacrafices, she sits and reads emails all day ! fact !

Mr. Presentable

Heyes wrote:

I trained my boss, the person got the job cause there been paid a packet and are actually been made do something for there money !!!!

Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't understand that sentence.

Heyes

nipplenuts wrote:

Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't understand that sentence.

Apologies, im just quite infuriated by work at the moment. What i ment to say, is that my boss is been paid a very high salary, however she does not do a lot of work for her to actually deserve her wage. Hence why she was given the extra responsibility, even if she doesnt actually know what she s doing. There s the rest of us to pick up the pieces sure:rolleyes:

Wishbone Ash

Heyes wrote:

my boss went onto my computer and went through my emails... im furious to put it mildly,

When you say 'my' computer, do you mean your own personal computer or a computer which you use but is the property of your employer. If it is a work computer your boss would be perfectly entitled to read any e-mails on it.

snappieT

Wishbone Ash wrote:

When you say 'my' computer, do you mean your own personal computer or a computer which you use but is the property of your employer. If it is a work computer your boss would be perfectly entitled to read any e-mails on it.

They have to be looking for something though. They aren't allowed to read personal emails unless personal email use is prohibited in the email policy.

Stark

snappieT wrote:

They have to be looking for something though. They aren't allowed to read personal emails unless personal email use is prohibited in the email policy.

She didn't say it was personal email though. If it's work email, then it's the property of the company. Serves her right if she was using her work email for personal use.

The only bad boss I had was when I was on work experience. I've been happy with all the others.

Duras

Heyes wrote:

my boss is been paid a very high salary, however she does not do a lot of work

isn't that what all bosses do?:rolleyes:

Heyes

Duras wrote:

isn't that what all bosses do?:rolleyes:

Suppose... sorry, just having a serious rant, im not liking work at the moment..

rant over :rolleyes:

hshortt

Did you have your computer password protected? The company must advise you if they will read your e-mail and as already mentioned they have to be looking for something specific, anything else they find cannot be used against you.

If you signed a waiver or policy document explaining that your e-mail can be read to ensure compliance with company policies, then there is little you can do. But if you didn't sign any document then you can build a case against the company for invasion of privacy. This is very wrong.

Cheerio
Howard

seamus

Stark wrote:

She didn't say it was personal email though. If it's work email, then it's the property of the company. Serves her right if she was using her work email for personal use.

Even if it was work email, they cannot access your mail without specific intent.

Huggles

seamus wrote:

Even if it was work email, they cannot access your mail without specific intent.

and they have to notify you too!

the_syco

Wishbone Ash wrote:

When you say 'my' computer, do you mean your own personal computer or a computer which you use but is the property of your employer. If it is a work computer your boss would be perfectly entitled to read any e-mails on it.

IIRC, you don't just leave your privacy rights at the front door of your work place as you enter. Just because the employer doesn't know or acknowledge your privacy rights, doesn't mean you have none.

TempestSabre

Why is your email not password protected?
Ask the boss why they did it?
Get a new job?

Duras

Wishbone Ash wrote:

When you say 'my' computer, do you mean your own personal computer or a computer which you use but is the property of your employer. If it is a work computer your boss would be perfectly entitled to read any e-mails on it.

Would you be entitled to read your boss e-mail then? As he/she also uses a work computer...

TempestSabre

Duras wrote:

Would you be entitled to read your boss e-mail then? As he/she also uses a work computer...

If it was part of your job, yes, and they'd been informed that email is monitored etc.

This stuff is usually coverd by a companies "Policy on Use of Computers".

Raiser

If anyone was sat at my desk casually reading through my mail I would be incensed and manically bitter. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

The rest of ye "oh its a work computer" freaks surprise me..... Ye must work in one of those companies where messages are put in capsules and sent from dept. to dept. on a cable strung from the ceiling.

My Boss is 35ish, female, and lost in the wilderness of IT like a 6 year old separated from Mommy in a nature reserve. She fails at good even-handed management so tries to claw back lost points through silly, trivial micro-management.

While other managers say no occasionally - as in "No thats not our depts. responsibility get dept. B to do it" - this bureaucrat says yes to everything in an attempt to be dynamic and top of her game - she then sends lame emails telling people about how we have to work all hours as we are behind in everything.

Also - she is a huge believer in the preposterous notion that buzz-words and US corporate "GO TEAM" lingo can at any time be substitued for logic, reason, and a lucid answer to a direct question.

- An example is "Oh thats right Raiser, we need to be problem-focused and look at all our root-cause issues and deal with them before we have to start fire-fighting to remain customer-centred....."

The only positive thing I take from it all is that if I should ever have a life-saving lobotomy following a helicoper collision or whatever I can look forward to nailing a middle managerial position at one of the top IT service providers in the World.

Huggles

Raiser wrote:

If anyone was sat at my desk casually reading through my mail I would be incensed and manically bitter. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

The rest of ye "oh its a work computer" freaks surprise me..... Ye must work in one of those companies where messages are put in capsules and sent from dept. to dept. on a cable strung from the ceiling.

My Boss is 35ish, female, and lost in the wilderness of IT like a 6 year old separated from Mommy in a nature reserve. She fails at good even-handed management so tries to claw back lost points through silly, trivial micro-management.

While other managers say no occasionally - as in "No thats not our depts. responsibility get dept. B to do it" - this bureaucrat says yes to everything in an attempt to be dynamic and top of her game - she then sends lame emails telling people about how we have to work all hours as we are behind in everything.

Also - she is a huge believer in the preposterous notion that buzz-words and US corporate "GO TEAM" lingo can at any time be substitued for logic, reason, and a lucid answer to a direct question.

- An example is "Oh thats right Raiser, we need to be problem-focused and look at all our root-cause issues and deal with them before we have to start fire-fighting to remain customer-centred....."

The only positive thing I take from it all is that if I should ever have a life-saving lobotomy following a helicoper collision or whatever I can look forward to nailing a middle managerial position at one of the top IT service providers in the World.

LOL A female David Brent so?

Metacortex

About a year ago. I landed my dream job. Or so i thought. I realised very quickly that i had made a terrible mistake taking the job.
I was being trained in by the girl whose job i was taking over, she was leaving after a few months. I noticed straight off she was very wary of asking the boss anything and so was the other girl working there.

I found out very quickly why this was.

The second day there he asked my to call someone on his behalf so i asked him for the phone number. He just freaked out and shouted at me for being stupid as the phone number was taped to the back of the door (first i heard of this).

I started about a week after another guy. The both of us would be berated constantly for being idiots. Despite most of time having done nothing wrong. We both just started and we were learning the ropes so of course we were making small stupid mistakes. Even saving something to the wrong folder would quarantee being screamed at.

The company used these really old servers that would constantly break down and i got no training in what to do if they crashed.
About the third week in, i was there by myself and the servers went down and there was nothing i could do to fix them. And no work could be done while they were down. About half way though the day, i really started to panic.The man was a complete bully.
When he came back, i tried to explain the situation and was told to 'shut the **** up' and i needed to start using my head.

I got home that night and i was a wreck and i broke down crying. I felt sick at the though of going back. And this was only the third week in, that should give you some idea of just how truly awful this man is.

The next day i was just arriving at the door of work when the other guy who started with me walked out saying 'i just quit, he is the biggest wanker ever'.
He then told me that when he quit he was mocked by the employer and told to go home to his mother and cry.
I knew straight away i couldn't go back in there. I rang and said there was no way i was coming back.

I haven't seen that 'man' since and im glad of it.
It was a small company and he owned it so it was basically put up with the bullying or quit. I made the right choice.

To this day that man is the worst human i've ever met. What i've described above isn't even the half of it.
It was only after i left i discovered just how many people had my job in the year before (7) and had quit for the same reason.
My heart genuinely goes out to anyone working for him at the moment.

seamus

Metacortex wrote:

It was only after i left i discovered just how many people had my job in the year before (7) and had quit for the same reason.

The issue of bullying was discussed here quite recently. I firmly believe that some people just should never be allowed in charge of others - no amount of training or seminars will give them management skills.

Metacortex

seamus wrote:

The issue of bullying was discussed here quite recently. I firmly believe that some people just should never be allowed in charge of others - no amount of training or seminars will give them management skills.

Too true.
A bit of respect and manners go a long way but this is way too hard for some people to understand.