I need a new job!!!

GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I work for this scary business-type boss guy in chicago sometimes. I am working on the project with a girl in another office is under me, but works with him more directly. This morning she called me and said he wanted me to hold off on working on it. Now he emails me and wants to know what progress I've made today!!!

this guy is SCARY and he's done stuff like this to me before. I just got off the phone with him and called it a "miscommunication" but still...I can't work under these circumstances!

if that wasn't bad enough, he gives instructions in MBA speak. "make a dumb-dumb title" (?) "put a nail in it" (?) etc. I have no idea what he's talking about. AND NOW I have to work all weekend on it!
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    at least she's the one who has to actually see him. sounds like you're working off-site... so what can he really do to you?
  • at least she's the one who has to actually see him. sounds like you're working off-site... so what can he really do to you?

    no all three of us are in different offices. she just works with him a lot.

    he can do plenty, he's a big boss. he's not in my office, but he's in my practice.
  • IF YOU WANT A PLATE OF MY BEEF SWELLINGTON, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY THE COVERCHARGE.
  • i really wish jack daniels weren't so expensive right now...
  • WhizbangWhizbang Posts: 1,314
    I wouldn't have taken her word for what he wanted done, especially since it sounds as though she reports to you. Always cover your ass. Additionally, put him on the spot when he gives you instructions in "MBA" speak. No matter how you slice it, business slang is just that "slang" and shouldn't be used. If you let it be used, you end up having to decypher instructions.

    If you're unhappy, update you resume and start looking.
    believe it or not, we don't "need" anything. that is only the spoiled brat in us trying to fill some temporary solution to an emptyness that does not exist.

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  • PJPixiePJPixie Posts: 3,026
    i really wish jack daniels weren't so expensive right now...


    I just spotted a HUGE BOTTLE OF JACK DANIELS at Smart and Final for $33!! That could last a while:D
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  • Whizbang wrote:

    If you're unhappy, update you resume and start looking.

    I have a networking call this week, trying to get some ideas. Right now I'm not sure where to look so that's the first step.

    This is why I need out consulting. I'm tired of having to worry about "covering my ass." I work with a mixture of scientists and businessmen- the scientists are generally ok, they can be a bit condescending but I can deal with that. The business guys are just mean and scary!

    In general I'm really sick of getting bossed around by older men. it's like your whole life your dad bosses you around, and then you're an adult and you get like 10 dads, all bossing you around. I'm tired having to be so scared of them all the time and whatnot.
  • i thought the title of this thread was:

    I need a blow job!!!

    when you look at it fast thats what it looks like. or maybe my mind is just in the gutter.
  • PJPixie wrote:
    I just spotted a HUGE BOTTLE OF JACK DANIELS at Smart and Final for $33!! That could last a while:D

    mmm....too bad I feel really gross tonight. my tummy's all messed up :(.
  • I really cannot physically get myself to focus on this work. I hate it. what bugs is how they make such a big deal out of it, like it's some big important thing that has to be done perfectly or else someone will die or something. It doesn't even have to be done at all! I'm not solving any problems here, I'm regergitating info we already have in a million places into a "slick" powerpoint. It makes me literally sick. I'm smart person. I have a degree in environmental economics, not "powerpoint making so scary big boss can make another million dollars." Feasibly right now, I can only think of very similar jobs I can get, and while there's always the hope that they'll be just different enough to be an improvement, it is just so frustrating. I thought everything would be different by now. I'm still doing the same shit, working for the same old men I was when I was in college...I never know what to believe anymore...you go on interviews and they make it seem like it's going to best thing on earth for you, while in reality it's actually holding you back. I don't get it, maybe I was just too naive...overly optimistic.

    You see Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care!
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